Commit c6e50f93 authored by Tejun Heo's avatar Tejun Heo

x86: cleanup stack protector

Impact: cleanup

Make the following cleanups.

* remove duplicate comment from boot_init_stack_canary() which fits
  better in the other place - cpu_idle().

* move stack_canary offset check from __switch_to() to
  boot_init_stack_canary().
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
parent 7890ba8c
......@@ -40,6 +40,4 @@ extern void pda_init(int);
#endif
#define refresh_stack_canary() write_pda(stack_canary, current->stack_canary)
#endif /* _ASM_X86_PDA_H */
......@@ -16,13 +16,12 @@ static __always_inline void boot_init_stack_canary(void)
u64 tsc;
/*
* If we're the non-boot CPU, nothing set the PDA stack
* canary up for us - and if we are the boot CPU we have
* a 0 stack canary. This is a good place for updating
* it, as we wont ever return from this function (so the
* invalid canaries already on the stack wont ever
* trigger).
*
* Build time only check to make sure the stack_canary is at
* offset 40 in the pda; this is a gcc ABI requirement
*/
BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct x8664_pda, stack_canary) != 40);
/*
* We both use the random pool and the current TSC as a source
* of randomness. The TSC only matters for very early init,
* there it already has some randomness on most systems. Later
......
......@@ -638,13 +638,6 @@ __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p)
percpu_write(kernel_stack,
(unsigned long)task_stack_page(next_p) +
THREAD_SIZE - KERNEL_STACK_OFFSET);
#ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
/*
* Build time only check to make sure the stack_canary is at
* offset 40 in the pda; this is a gcc ABI requirement
*/
BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct x8664_pda, stack_canary) != 40);
#endif
/*
* Now maybe reload the debug registers and handle I/O bitmaps
......
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