linux/mm
Linus Torvalds 320b2b8de1 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>
2010-08-12 17:54:33 -07:00
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backing-dev.c writeback: avoid unnecessary calculation of bdi dirty thresholds 2010-08-12 08:43:29 -07:00
bootmem.c x86,nobootmem: make alloc_bootmem_node fall back to other node when 32bit numa is used 2010-07-20 16:25:40 -07:00
bounce.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
compaction.c mm: compaction: add a tunable that decides when memory should be compacted and when it should be reclaimed 2010-05-25 08:06:59 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c
fadvise.c readahead: introduce FMODE_RANDOM for POSIX_FADV_RANDOM 2010-03-06 11:26:25 -08:00
failslab.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
filemap_xip.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
filemap.c gcc-4.6: mm: fix unused but set warnings 2010-08-09 20:44:58 -07:00
fremap.c mm: clean up mm_counter 2010-03-06 11:26:23 -08:00
highmem.c mm,kdb,kgdb: Add a debug reference for the kdb kmap usage 2010-08-05 09:22:24 -05:00
hugetlb.c Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 2010-08-12 10:15:10 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c HWPOISON, hugetlb: support hwpoison injection for hugepage 2010-08-11 09:23:11 +02:00
init-mm.c mm: provide init_mm mm_context initializer 2010-08-09 20:44:54 -07:00
internal.h
Kconfig lmb: rename to memblock 2010-07-14 17:14:00 +10:00
Kconfig.debug
kmemcheck.c kmemcheck: Fix build errors due to missing slab.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c kmemleak: Fix typo in the comment 2010-08-08 21:57:23 +01:00
ksm.c ksm: cleanup for mm_slots_hash 2010-08-09 20:45:03 -07:00
maccess.c maccess,probe_kernel: Allow arch specific override probe_kernel_(read|write) 2010-01-07 11:58:36 -06:00
madvise.c
Makefile lmb: rename to memblock 2010-07-14 17:14:00 +10:00
memblock.c memblock: Fix memblock_is_region_reserved() to return a boolean 2010-08-09 11:21:38 +10:00
memcontrol.c memcg: convert to use zone_to_nid() from bare zone->zone_pgdat->node_id 2010-08-11 08:59:19 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mem-hotplug: fix potential race while building zonelist for new populated zone 2010-05-25 08:07:02 -07:00
memory-failure.c Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 2010-08-12 10:15:10 -07:00
memory.c mm: keep a guard page below a grow-down stack segment 2010-08-12 17:54:33 -07:00
mempolicy.c mempolicy: reduce stack size of migrate_pages() 2010-08-09 20:44:58 -07:00
mempool.c
migrate.c mm: extend KSM refcounts to the anon_vma root 2010-08-09 20:44:55 -07:00
mincore.c mincore: do nested page table walks 2010-05-25 08:06:58 -07:00
mlock.c x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace code 2010-03-26 11:33:55 +01:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c mmap: remove unnecessary lock from __vma_link 2010-08-09 20:44:58 -07:00
mmu_context.c exit: fix oops in sync_mm_rss 2010-03-24 16:31:21 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
mmzone.c
mprotect.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
mremap.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
msync.c sanitize vfs_fsync calling conventions 2010-05-21 18:31:21 -04:00
nommu.c nommu: allow private mappings of read-only devices 2010-05-26 08:19:23 -07:00
oom_kill.c memcg: use find_lock_task_mm() in memory cgroups oom 2010-08-11 08:59:19 -07:00
page_alloc.c vmscan: kill prev_priority completely 2010-08-09 20:45:00 -07:00
page_cgroup.c kmemleak: Annotate false positive in init_section_page_cgroup() 2010-07-19 11:54:14 +01:00
page_io.c block: unify flags for struct bio and struct request 2010-08-07 18:20:39 +02:00
page_isolation.c
page-writeback.c writeback: add comment to the dirty limit functions 2010-08-12 08:43:30 -07:00
pagewalk.c pagemap: fix pfn calculation for hugepage 2010-04-07 08:38:04 -07:00
percpu_up.c percpu: don't implicitly include slab.h from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
percpu-km.c percpu: implement kernel memory based chunk allocation 2010-05-01 08:30:50 +02:00
percpu-vm.c percpu: move vmalloc based chunk management into percpu-vm.c 2010-05-01 08:30:50 +02:00
percpu.c percpu: allow limited allocation before slab is online 2010-06-27 18:50:00 +02:00
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
readahead.c readahead.c: fix comment 2010-05-25 08:07:00 -07:00
rmap.c Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 2010-08-12 10:15:10 -07:00
shmem.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2010-08-10 11:26:52 -07:00
slab.c gcc-4.6: mm: fix unused but set warnings 2010-08-09 20:44:58 -07:00
slob.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 2010-08-06 11:44:08 -07:00
slub.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 2010-08-06 11:44:08 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
sparse.c sparsemem: on no vmemmap path put mem_map on node high too 2010-05-25 08:06:56 -07:00
swap_state.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
swap.c mm: export lru_cache_add_*() to modules 2010-05-25 15:06:06 +02:00
swapfile.c hibernation: freeze swap at hibernation 2010-08-09 20:45:04 -07:00
thrash.c
truncate.c check ATTR_SIZE contraints in inode_change_ok 2010-08-09 16:47:39 -04:00
util.c mm: use memdup_user 2010-08-09 20:44:54 -07:00
vmalloc.c Merge branch 'stable/xen-swiotlb-0.8.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen 2010-08-12 09:09:41 -07:00
vmscan.c memcg: remove nid and zid argument from mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim() 2010-08-11 08:59:19 -07:00
vmstat.c vmscan: kill prev_priority completely 2010-08-09 20:45:00 -07:00