• Johannes Berg's avatar
    um: allocate a guard page to helper threads · ef4459a6
    Johannes Berg authored
    We've been running into stack overflows in helper threads
    corrupting memory (e.g. because somebody put printf() or
    os_info() there), so to avoid those causing hard-to-debug
    issues later on, allocate a guard page for helper thread
    stacks and mark it read-only.
    
    Unfortunately, the crash dump at that point is useless as
    the stack tracer will try to backtrace the *kernel* thread,
    not the helper thread, but at least we don't survive to a
    random issue caused by corruption.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRichard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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