x86: Panic on detection of stack overflow

Currently, messages are just output on the detection of stack
overflow, which is not sufficient for systems that need a
high reliability. This is because in general the overflow may
corrupt data, and the additional corruption may occur due to
reading them unless systems stop.

This patch adds the sysctl parameter
kernel.panic_on_stackoverflow and causes a panic when detecting
the overflows of kernel, IRQ and exception stacks except user
stack according to the parameter. It is disabled by default.

Signed-off-by: Mitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com>
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111129060836.11076.12323.stgit@ltc219.sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

5 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index 1f2463671a1..6d8cd8b2c30 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
 - panic
 - panic_on_oops
 - panic_on_unrecovered_nmi
+- panic_on_stackoverflow
 - pid_max
 - powersave-nap               [ PPC only ]
 - printk
@@ -393,6 +394,19 @@ Controls the kernel's behaviour when an oops or BUG is encountered.
 
 ==============================================================
 
+panic_on_stackoverflow:
+
+Controls the kernel's behavior when detecting the overflows of
+kernel, IRQ and exception stacks except a user stack.
+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_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c
index 72090705a65..e16e99ebd7a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ static void print_stack_overflow(void)
 {
 	printk(KERN_WARNING "low stack detected by irq handler\n");
 	dump_stack();
+	if (sysctl_panic_on_stackoverflow)
+		panic("low stack detected by irq handler - check messages\n");
 }
 
 #else
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/irq_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/irq_64.c
index 928a7e90961..42552b0dce6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/irq_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/irq_64.c
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(irq_stat);
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct pt_regs *, irq_regs);
 EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(irq_regs);
 
+int sysctl_panic_on_stackoverflow;
+
 /*
  * Probabilistic stack overflow check:
  *
@@ -65,6 +67,9 @@ static inline void stack_overflow_check(struct pt_regs *regs)
 		current->comm, curbase, regs->sp,
 		irq_stack_top, irq_stack_bottom,
 		estack_top, estack_bottom);
+
+	if (sysctl_panic_on_stackoverflow)
+		panic("low stack detected by irq handler - check messages\n");
 #endif
 }
 
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index e8b1597b5cf..ff83683c0b9 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -341,6 +341,7 @@ 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/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index ae271964385..f487f257e05 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -803,6 +803,15 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
 	},
+#ifdef 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,