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New x86 FPU features will be very large, requiring ~10k of stack in signal handlers. These new features require a new approach called "dynamic features". The kernel currently tries to ensure that altstacks are reasonably sized. Right now, on x86, sys_sigaltstack() requires a size of >=2k. However, that 2k is a constant. Simply raising that 2k requirement to >10k for the new features would break existing apps which have a compiled-in size of 2k. Instead of universally enforcing a larger stack, prohibit a process from using dynamic features without properly-sized altstacks. This must be enforced in two places: * A dynamic feature can not be enabled without an large-enough altstack for each process thread. * Once a dynamic feature is enabled, any request to install a too-small altstack will be rejected The dynamic feature enabling code must examine each thread in a process to ensure that the altstacks are large enough. Add a new lock (sigaltstack_lock()) to ensure that threads can not race and change their altstack after being examined. Add the infrastructure in form of a config option and provide empty stubs for architectures which do not need dynamic altstack size checks. This implementation will be fleshed out for x86 in a future patch called x86/arch_prctl: Add controls for dynamic XSTATE components [dhansen: commit message. ] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211021225527.10184-2-chang.seok.bae@intel.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.