On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 05:28:22PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > Since the dawn of time, a kernel stack overflow has been a real PITA > to debug, has caused nondeterministic crashes some time after the > actual overflow, and has generally been easy to exploit for root. > > With this series, arches can enable HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK. Arches > that enable it (just x86 for now) get virtually mapped stacks with > guard pages. This causes reliable faults when the stack overflows. > > If the arch implements it well, we get a nice OOPS on stack overflow > (as opposed to panicing directly or otherwise exploding badly). On > x86, the OOPS is nice, has a usable call trace, and the overflowing > task is killed cleanly.
Do you have numbers which reflect the performance impact of this change?
