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List:       linux-arm-kernel
Subject:    [PATCH 0/2] ARM: support THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK (v7 only) (v2)
From:       Keith Packard <keithp () keithp ! com>
Date:       2021-09-04 6:09:05
Message-ID: 20210904060908.1310204-1-keithp () keithp ! com
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Placing thread_info in the kernel stack leaves it vulnerable to stack
overflow attacks. This short series addresses that by using the
existing THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK infrastructure.

This is the second version of this series, in this version the changes
are restricted to v7 hardware which offers a way to identify each cpu
in the system without reference to the stack it is using.

The series is broken into three pieces:

 1) Change the secondary_start_kernel API to pass the cpu number to
    this function. This is required for the following patch because the
    raw_smp_processor_id() macro will use the per_cpu_offset value which
    needs to have the cpu number to get the right value.

 2) Enable THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK by creating a new per-cpu variable,
    current_task, just like the x86 architecture. The largest changes
    are in the assembly code where fetching the current_task value
    requires a temporary register. Fortunately, each location in the
    code performing this had a reasonably obvious register to use.

 3) Optimize access to the cpu number using another new per-cpu
    variable. This is not functionally necessary, but avoids
    de-referencing through two pointers at modest memory cost.

Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithpac@amazon.com>



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