On Feb 27, 2015 8:13 AM, "Denys Vlasenko" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 02/27/2015 01:07 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > This will make modifying the semantics of kernel_stack easier.
> >
> > Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h | 3 +--
> >  arch/x86/kernel/traps.c            | 2 +-
> >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h 
> > b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
> > index e82e95abc92b..92549053d86d 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
> > @@ -163,8 +163,7 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, kernel_stack);
> >  static inline struct thread_info *current_thread_info(void)
> >  {
> >       struct thread_info *ti;
> > -     ti = (void *)(this_cpu_read_stable(kernel_stack) +
> > -                   KERNEL_STACK_OFFSET - THREAD_SIZE);
> > +     ti = (void *)(this_cpu_sp0() - THREAD_SIZE);
> >       return ti;
> >  }
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
> > index c74f2f5652da..d287ea779728 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
> > @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ void ist_begin_non_atomic(struct pt_regs *regs)
> >        * will catch asm bugs and any attempt to use ist_preempt_enable
> >        * from double_fault.
> >        */
> > -     BUG_ON(((current_stack_pointer() ^ this_cpu_read_stable(kernel_stack))
> > +     BUG_ON(((current_stack_pointer() ^ (this_cpu_sp0() - 1))
> >               & ~(THREAD_SIZE - 1)) != 0);
>
> While we are at it, I propose a more readable version of this check:
>
> BUG_ON(this_cpu_sp0() - current_stack_pointer() >= THREAD_SIZE);
>
> Yes, I am aware that it is not equivalent to the existing condition
> - it uses the fact that this_cpu_sp0(), previous check
> wasn't making that assumption. But that assumption is true,
> so shouldn't be a problem.

You're missing an absolute value in here, though.  This isn't a check
for overflow; it's a check that we aren't on an IST or other per cpu
stack.

--Andy
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