[PATCH 3/5] stack overflow safe kdump (2.6.16-rc1-i386) - fault

[Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao]

When we have a bloated stack it is likely that it ends up making an
invalid memory access that in turn causes a page fault. Take this case
into account in the page fault code.

Signed-off-by: Fernando Vazquez <fernando@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
--- 

diff -urNp linux-2.6.16-rc1/arch/i386/mm/fault.c linux-2.6.16-rc1-sov/arch/i386/mm/fault.c
--- linux-2.6.16-rc1/arch/i386/mm/fault.c	2006-01-03 12:21:10.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc1-sov/arch/i386/mm/fault.c	2006-01-25 14:43:13.000000000 +0900
@@ -245,6 +245,11 @@ fastcall void __kprobes do_page_fault(st
 		local_irq_enable();
 
 	tsk = current;
+	/* We may have invalid '*current' due to a stack overflow. */
+	if (!virt_addr_valid(tsk)) {
+		printk("do_page_fault: Discarding invalid 'current' struct task_struct * = 0x%p\n", tsk);
+		tsk = NULL;
+	}
 
 	si_code = SEGV_MAPERR;
 
@@ -271,7 +276,14 @@ fastcall void __kprobes do_page_fault(st
 		goto bad_area_nosemaphore;
 	} 
 
-	mm = tsk->mm;
+	mm = NULL;
+	/* We may have invalid 'tsk' due to a i386 stack overflow */
+	if (tsk)
+		mm = tsk->mm;
+	if (mm && !virt_addr_valid(mm)) {
+		printk("do_page_fault: Discarding invalid current->mm struct mm_struct * = 0x%p\n", mm);
+		mm = NULL;
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * If we're in an interrupt, have no user context or are running in an


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