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| author | Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> | 2021-10-21 15:55:05 -0700 |
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| committer | Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> | 2021-10-26 10:15:12 +0200 |
| commit | 1bdda24c4af64cd2d65dec5192ab624c5fee7ca0 (patch) | |
| tree | 9e96250b0947c570a206842a035ad9f79ad0e45e /tools/perf/scripts/python/export-to-sqlite.py | |
| parent | 582b01b6ab2714a0a4d554cea7f0d4efeaa2154d (diff) | |
signal: Add an optional check for altstack size
New x86 FPU features will be very large, requiring ~10k of stack in
signal handlers. These new features require a new approach called
"dynamic features".
The kernel currently tries to ensure that altstacks are reasonably
sized. Right now, on x86, sys_sigaltstack() requires a size of >=2k.
However, that 2k is a constant. Simply raising that 2k requirement
to >10k for the new features would break existing apps which have a
compiled-in size of 2k.
Instead of universally enforcing a larger stack, prohibit a process from
using dynamic features without properly-sized altstacks. This must be
enforced in two places:
* A dynamic feature can not be enabled without an large-enough altstack
for each process thread.
* Once a dynamic feature is enabled, any request to install a too-small
altstack will be rejected
The dynamic feature enabling code must examine each thread in a
process to ensure that the altstacks are large enough. Add a new lock
(sigaltstack_lock()) to ensure that threads can not race and change
their altstack after being examined.
Add the infrastructure in form of a config option and provide empty
stubs for architectures which do not need dynamic altstack size checks.
This implementation will be fleshed out for x86 in a future patch called
x86/arch_prctl: Add controls for dynamic XSTATE components
[dhansen: commit message. ]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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