Re: [RFC PATCH 3/5] x86: add a sysctl parameter to panic on stack overflow

[HAYASAKA Mitsuo <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com>]

(2011/11/11 4:55), Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 02:53:01PM +0900, Mitsuo Hayasaka wrote:
>> This patch adds kernel.panic_on_stackoverflow sysctl parameter,
>> which can cause a panic when detecting the stack overflow.
> 
> Why would we want to panic?

This is because in general a stack overflow may corrupt data and
the additional corruption may occur due to reading of them unless
systems stop. This option is useful for systems that need a high
reliability, although it is disabled by default.

In addition, it is also useful for analyzing the reason why it
occurred using kdump which is a crash dumping mechanism.

>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com>
>> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
>> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
>> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
>> ---
>>
>>  Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt |   13 +++++++++++++
>>  arch/x86/kernel/irq_64.c        |    2 ++
>>  include/linux/kernel.h          |    1 +
>>  include/linux/sysctl.h          |    1 +
>>  kernel/sysctl.c                 |    9 +++++++++
>>  kernel/sysctl_binary.c          |    1 +
>>  6 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
>> index 704e474..eb8d263 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
>> @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
>>  - panic
>>  - panic_on_oops
>>  - panic_on_unrecovered_nmi
>> +- panic_on_stackoverflow
>>  - pid_max
>>  - powersave-nap               [ PPC only ]
>>  - printk
>> @@ -385,6 +386,18 @@ Controls the kernel's behaviour when an oops or BUG is encountered.
>>  
>>  ==============================================================
>>  
>> +panic_on_stackoverflow:
>> +
>> +Controls the kernel's behaviour when detecting stack overflow.
>> +This file shows up if CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW is enabled.
>> +
>> +0: try to continue operation.
>> +
>> +1: panic immediately.
>> +
>> +==============================================================
>> +
>> +
>>  pid_max:
>>  
>>  PID allocation wrap value.  When the kernel's next PID value
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/irq_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/irq_64.c
>> index 530cfd0..d720813 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/irq_64.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/irq_64.c
>> @@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
>>  #include <asm/idle.h>
>>  #include <asm/apic.h>
>>  
>> +int sysctl_panic_on_stackoverflow;
> 
> __read_mostly
> 
>> +
>>  DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(irq_cpustat_t, irq_stat);
>>  EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(irq_stat);
>>  
>> diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
>> index 8eefcf7..19b3595 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/kernel.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
>> @@ -339,6 +339,7 @@ extern int panic_timeout;
>>  extern int panic_on_oops;
>>  extern int panic_on_unrecovered_nmi;
>>  extern int panic_on_io_nmi;
>> +extern int sysctl_panic_on_stackoverflow;
>>  extern const char *print_tainted(void);
>>  extern void add_taint(unsigned flag);
>>  extern int test_taint(unsigned flag);
>> diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
>> index 9a1ec10..4b9dc3d 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
>> @@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ enum
>>  	KERN_MAX_LOCK_DEPTH=74, /* int: rtmutex's maximum lock depth */
>>  	KERN_NMI_WATCHDOG=75, /* int: enable/disable nmi watchdog */
>>  	KERN_PANIC_ON_NMI=76, /* int: whether we will panic on an unrecovered */
>> +	KERN_PANIC_ON_STACKOVERFLOW = 77, /* int: panic on stack overflow */
>>  };
>>  
>>  
>> diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
>> index 11d65b5..08a18f9 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sysctl.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
>> @@ -792,6 +792,15 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
>>  		.mode		= 0644,
>>  		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
>>  	},
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW)
>> +	{
>> +		.procname	= "panic_on_stackoverflow",
>> +		.data		= &sysctl_panic_on_stackoverflow,
>> +		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
>> +		.mode		= 0644,
>> +		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
>> +	},
>> +#endif
>>  	{
>>  		.procname	= "bootloader_type",
>>  		.data		= &bootloader_type,
>> diff --git a/kernel/sysctl_binary.c b/kernel/sysctl_binary.c
>> index 6318b51..24fc654 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sysctl_binary.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sysctl_binary.c
>> @@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ static const struct bin_table bin_kern_table[] = {
>>  	{ CTL_INT,	KERN_COMPAT_LOG,		"compat-log" },
>>  	{ CTL_INT,	KERN_MAX_LOCK_DEPTH,		"max_lock_depth" },
>>  	{ CTL_INT,	KERN_PANIC_ON_NMI,		"panic_on_unrecovered_nmi" },
>> +	{ CTL_INT,	KERN_PANIC_ON_STACKOVERFLOW,	"panic_on_stackoverflow" },
> 
> This shouldn't be wrapped in the #ifdef?
> 
>>  	{}
>>  };
>>  
>>
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