tree bb62fe1ba3bb8bf68ff1fd44e613ece9c9581c36
parent 2069601b3f0ea38170d4b509b89f3ca0a373bdc1
author Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1281660873 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1281660873 -0700

mm: keep a guard page below a grow-down stack segment

This is a rather minimally invasive patch to solve the problem of the
user stack growing into a memory mapped area below it.  Whenever we fill
the first page of the stack segment, expand the segment down by one
page.

Now, admittedly some odd application might _want_ the stack to grow down
into the preceding memory mapping, and so we may at some point need to
make this a process tunable (some people might also want to have more
than a single page of guarding), but let's try the minimal approach
first.

Tested with trivial application that maps a single page just below the
stack, and then starts recursing.  Without this, we will get a SIGSEGV
_after_ the stack has smashed the mapping.  With this patch, we'll get a
nice SIGBUS just as the stack touches the page just above the mapping.

Requested-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>