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Message-Id: <20171222084626.359357965@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Fri, 22 Dec 2017 09:45:33 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@...e.de>,
        Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 048/159] x86/entry: Add task_top_of_stack() to find the top of a tasks stack

4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>

commit 3500130b84a3cdc5b6796eba1daf178944935efe upstream.

This will let us get rid of a few places that hardcode accesses to
thread.sp0.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@...e.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b49b3f95a8ff858c40c9b0f5b32be0355324327d.1509609304.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -796,6 +796,8 @@ static inline void spin_lock_prefetch(co
 #define TOP_OF_INIT_STACK ((unsigned long)&init_stack + sizeof(init_stack) - \
 			   TOP_OF_KERNEL_STACK_PADDING)
 
+#define task_top_of_stack(task) ((unsigned long)(task_pt_regs(task) + 1))
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
 /*
  * User space process size: 3GB (default).