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authorMitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com>2011-11-29 15:08:36 +0900
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-12-05 11:37:47 +0100
commit55af77969fbd7a841838220ea2287432e0da8ae5 (patch)
treef5f819e160799fb0477ec33c06aa8d022466687d /include/linux
parent37fe6a42b3433b79a159ceb06a94cd1ef00e279d (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kernel.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index e8b1597b5cf2..ff83683c0b9d 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);