fork: Add generic vmalloced stack support
If CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y is selected, kernel stacks are allocated with
__vmalloc_node_range().
Grsecurity has had a similar feature (called GRKERNSEC_KSTACKOVERFLOW=y)
for a long time.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/14c07d4fd173a5b117f51e8b939f9f4323e39899.1470907718.git.luto@kernel.org
[ Minor edits. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index e9c9334..9ecf9f6 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -707,4 +707,38 @@
config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS
def_bool n
+config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
+ def_bool n
+ help
+ An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks
+ in vmalloc space. This means:
+
+ - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks.
+ This may rule out many 32-bit architectures.
+
+ - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if
+ vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism
+ needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with
+ unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(),
+ most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries
+ are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack.
+
+ - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable
+ should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but
+ instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly.
+
+config VMAP_STACK
+ default y
+ bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
+ depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN
+ ---help---
+ Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
+ with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be
+ caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
+ corruption.
+
+ This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects
+ the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula
+ that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space.
+
source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"