From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751644AbaIJH1C (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2014 03:27:02 -0400 Received: from mail-oi0-f47.google.com ([209.85.218.47]:35710 "EHLO mail-oi0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751044AbaIJH07 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2014 03:26:59 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 02:26:54 -0500 From: Chuck Ebbert To: Aaron Tomlin Cc: peterz@infradead.org, mingo@redhat.com, dzickus@redhat.com, bmr@redhat.com, jcastillo@redhat.com, oleg@redhat.com, pzijlstr@redhat.com, riel@redhat.com, prarit@redhat.com, jgh@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, x86@kernel.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, akpm@google.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, minchan@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] init/main.c: Give init_task a canary Message-ID: <20140910022654.29abc9f3@as> In-Reply-To: <1410255749-2956-2-git-send-email-atomlin@redhat.com> References: <20140904161124.GD1436@atomlin.usersys.redhat.com> <1410255749-2956-1-git-send-email-atomlin@redhat.com> <1410255749-2956-2-git-send-email-atomlin@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 10:42:27 +0100 Aaron Tomlin wrote: > +void task_stack_end_magic(struct task_struct *tsk) > +{ > + unsigned long *stackend; > + > + stackend = end_of_stack(tsk); > + *stackend = STACK_END_MAGIC; /* for overflow detection */ > +} > + For clarity this should probably be called set_task_stack_end_magic(). And has this been tested on parisc and metag, which use STACK_GROWSUP ? I can't see how end_of_stack() as it's defined now could work on those archs.