On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 04:19:43PM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:

This patch activates CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK which
moves the thread_info into task_struct.

Moving thread_info into task_struct has the following advantages:
- It protects thread_info from corruption in the case of stack
overflows.
- Its address is harder to determine if stack addresses are
leaked, making a number of attacks more difficult.

This has the following consequences:
- thread_info is now located at the beginning of task_struct.
- The 'cpu' field is now in task_struct, and only exists when
CONFIG_SMP is active.
- thread_info doesn't have anymore the 'task' field.

This patch:
- Removes all recopy of thread_info struct when the stack changes.
- Changes the CURRENT_THREAD_INFO() macro to point to current.
- Selects CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK.
- Modifies raw_smp_processor_id() to get ->cpu from current without
including linux/sched.h to avoid circular inclusion and without
including asm/asm-offsets.h to avoid symbol names duplication
between ASM constants and C constants.
- Modifies klp_init_thread_info() to take a task_struct pointer
argument.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>

[...]

+ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+prepare: task_cpu_prepare
+
+task_cpu_prepare: prepare0
+	$(eval KBUILD_CFLAGS += -D_TASK_CPU=$(shell awk '{if ($$2 == "TI_CPU") print $$3;}' include/generated/asm-offsets.h))
+endif

[...]

-#define raw_smp_processor_id()	(current_thread_info()->cpu)
+/*
+ * This is particularly ugly: it appears we can't actually get the definition
+ * of task_struct here, but we need access to the CPU this task is running on.
+ * Instead of using task_struct we're using _TASK_CPU which is extracted from
+ * asm-offsets.h by kbuild to get the current processor ID.
+ *
+ * This also needs to be safeguarded when building asm-offsets.s because at
+ * that time _TASK_CPU is not defined yet. It could have been guarded by
+ * _TASK_CPU itself, but we want the build to fail if _TASK_CPU is missing
+ * when building something else than asm-offsets.s
+ */
+#ifdef GENERATING_ASM_OFFSETS
+#define raw_smp_processor_id()		(0)
+#else
+#define raw_smp_processor_id()		(*(unsigned int *)((void *)current + _TASK_CPU))
+#endif
 #define hard_smp_processor_id() 	(smp_hw_index[smp_processor_id()])

On arm64 we have the per-cpu offset in a CPU register (TPIDR_EL1), so we
can do:

DEFINE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(int, cpu_number);

#define raw_smp_processor_id() (*raw_cpu_ptr(&cpu_number))

... but I guess that's not possible on PPC for some reason?

I think I asked that before, but I couldn't find the thread.

Otherwise, this all looks sound to me, but I don't know much about PPC.

Thanks,
Mark.