Re: Wanted: simple, safe x86 stack overflow detection

[Andi Kleen]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:18:24AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 February 2007, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > Can we just put a canary in the threadinfo and check it on every
> > task switch? What are the drawbacks?
> 
> It's not completely reliable, in case of functions that allocate
> far too much stack space. You might want to take a look at the
> gcc support that Andreas Krebbel implemented for s390 to check
> for stack overflows:

I hacked this up for x86-64 too at some point (using 
the gprof support). However it's quite slow.

Here's the old 2.4 patch:

ftp://ftp.x86-64.org/pub/linux/debug/stackcheck-1

-Andi
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