linux-kernel - [RFC 15/17] x86/boot/32: Fix cpu_current_top_of

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Message-Id: <435cba8520a53956b5df9ad9aa1cbe9ab6d4aded.1504733277.git.luto@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed,  6 Sep 2017 14:37:00 -0700
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:     x86@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
        Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: [RFC 15/17] x86/boot/32: Fix cpu_current_top_of_stack initialization at boot

cpu_current_top_of_stack's initialization forgot about
TOP_OF_KERNEL_STACK_PADDING.  This bug didn't matter because the
idle threads never enter user mode.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index b474c8de7fba..e6544bac7c51 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -958,8 +958,7 @@ void common_cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *idle)
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
 	/* Stack for startup_32 can be just as for start_secondary onwards */
 	irq_ctx_init(cpu);
-	per_cpu(cpu_current_top_of_stack, cpu) =
-		(unsigned long)task_stack_page(idle) + THREAD_SIZE;
+	per_cpu(cpu_current_top_of_stack, cpu) = task_top_of_stack(idle);
 #else
 	initial_gs = per_cpu_offset(cpu);
 #endif
-- 
2.13.5