android_kernel_samsung_msm8976/include
Fernando Vazquez dc2bc768a0 [PATCH] stack overflow safe kdump: safe_smp_processor_id()
This is a the first of a series of patch-sets aiming at making kdump more
robust against stack overflows.

This patch set does the following:

* Add safe_smp_processor_id function to i386 architecture (this function was
  inspired by the x86_64 function of the same name).

* Substitute "smp_processor_id" with the stack overflow-safe
  "safe_smp_processor_id" in the reboot path to the second kernel.

This patch:

On the event of a stack overflow critical data that usually resides at the
bottom of the stack is likely to be stomped and, consequently, its use should
be avoided.

In particular, in the i386 and IA64 architectures the macro smp_processor_id
ultimately makes use of the "cpu" member of struct thread_info which resides
at the bottom of the stack.  x86_64, on the other hand, is not affected by
this problem because it benefits from the use of the PDA infrastructure.

To circumvent this problem I suggest implementing "safe_smp_processor_id()"
(it already exists in x86_64) for i386 and IA64 and use it as a replacement
for smp_processor_id in the reboot path to the dump capture kernel.  This is a
possible implementation for i386.

Signed-off-by: Fernando Vazquez <fernando@intellilink.co.jp>
Looks-reasonable-to: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:30 -07:00
..
acpi
asm-alpha [PATCH] Directed yield: cpu_relax variants for spinlocks and rw-locks 2006-10-01 00:39:21 -07:00
asm-arm [PATCH] Directed yield: cpu_relax variants for spinlocks and rw-locks 2006-10-01 00:39:21 -07:00
asm-arm26 [PATCH] consistently use MAX_ERRNO in __syscall_return 2006-09-27 08:26:18 -07:00
asm-avr32
asm-cris [PATCH] Directed yield: cpu_relax variants for spinlocks and rw-locks 2006-10-01 00:39:21 -07:00
asm-frv [PATCH] ntp: cleanup defines and comments 2006-10-01 00:39:27 -07:00
asm-generic [PATCH] Let WARN_ON/WARN_ON_ONCE return the condition 2006-09-29 09:18:06 -07:00
asm-h8300 [PATCH] remove SYSRQ_KEY and related defines from ppc/sh/h8300 2006-10-01 00:39:22 -07:00
asm-i386 [PATCH] stack overflow safe kdump: safe_smp_processor_id() 2006-10-01 00:39:30 -07:00
asm-ia64 [PATCH] Directed yield: cpu_relax variants for spinlocks and rw-locks 2006-10-01 00:39:21 -07:00
asm-m32r [PATCH] ntp: cleanup defines and comments 2006-10-01 00:39:27 -07:00
asm-m68k [PATCH] consistently use MAX_ERRNO in __syscall_return 2006-09-27 08:26:18 -07:00
asm-m68knommu [PATCH] consistently use MAX_ERRNO in __syscall_return 2006-09-27 08:26:18 -07:00
asm-mips [PATCH] Directed yield: cpu_relax variants for spinlocks and rw-locks 2006-10-01 00:39:21 -07:00
asm-parisc [PATCH] Directed yield: cpu_relax variants for spinlocks and rw-locks 2006-10-01 00:39:21 -07:00
asm-powerpc [PATCH] update legacy io handling for pmac 2006-10-01 00:39:23 -07:00
asm-ppc [PATCH] Directed yield: cpu_relax variants for spinlocks and rw-locks 2006-10-01 00:39:21 -07:00
asm-s390 [PATCH] Directed yield: direct yield of spinlocks for s390. 2006-10-01 00:39:22 -07:00
asm-sh [PATCH] remove SYSRQ_KEY and related defines from ppc/sh/h8300 2006-10-01 00:39:22 -07:00
asm-sh64 [PATCH] ntp: cleanup defines and comments 2006-10-01 00:39:27 -07:00
asm-sparc [PATCH] Directed yield: cpu_relax variants for spinlocks and rw-locks 2006-10-01 00:39:21 -07:00
asm-sparc64 [PATCH] Directed yield: cpu_relax variants for spinlocks and rw-locks 2006-10-01 00:39:21 -07:00
asm-um [PATCH] uml: remove pte_mkexec 2006-09-29 09:18:04 -07:00
asm-v850 [PATCH] consistently use MAX_ERRNO in __syscall_return 2006-09-27 08:26:18 -07:00
asm-x86_64 [PATCH] kill wall_jiffies 2006-10-01 00:39:27 -07:00
asm-xtensa [PATCH] ntp: cleanup defines and comments 2006-10-01 00:39:27 -07:00
crypto
keys
linux [PATCH] r/o bind mounts: monitor zeroing of i_nlink 2006-10-01 00:39:30 -07:00
math-emu
media Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb 2006-09-30 09:39:15 -07:00
mtd
net [PATCH] Add genetlink utilities for payload length calculation 2006-10-01 00:39:29 -07:00
pcmcia
rdma
rxrpc
scsi [PATCH] scsi: device_reprobe() can fail 2006-09-30 19:33:43 -07:00
sound [PATCH] maximum latency tracking: ALSA support 2006-10-01 00:39:19 -07:00
video
Kbuild