[PATCH 0/2] sched: Always check the integrity of the canary

[Aaron Tomlin]

Currently in the event of a stack overrun a call to schedule()
does not check for this type of corruption. This corruption is
often silent and can go unnoticed. However once the corrupted
region is examined at a later stage, the outcome is undefined
and often results in a sporadic page fault which cannot be
handled.

The first patch provides a helper to determine the integrity
of the canary. While the second patch checks for a stack
overrun and takes appropriate action since the damage is
already done, there is no point in continuing.

Aaron Tomlin (2):
  sched: Add helper for task stack page overrun checking
  sched: BUG when stack end location is over written

 arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c    | 6 ++----
 arch/x86/mm/fault.c        | 5 +----
 include/linux/sched.h      | 3 +++
 kernel/sched/core.c        | 3 +++
 kernel/trace/trace_stack.c | 5 ++---
 5 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

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1.9.3

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