x86: cleanup stack protector

Impact: cleanup

Make the following cleanups.

* remove duplicate comment from boot_init_stack_canary() which fits
  better in the other place - cpu_idle().

* move stack_canary offset check from __switch_to() to
  boot_init_stack_canary().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pda.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pda.h
index 5976cd8..4a8c9d3 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pda.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pda.h
@@ -40,6 +40,4 @@ extern void pda_init(int);
 
 #endif
 
-#define refresh_stack_canary() write_pda(stack_canary, current->stack_canary)
-
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_PDA_H */

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h
index c7f0d10..2383e5b 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h
@@ -16,13 +16,12 @@ static __always_inline void boot_init_stack_canary(void)
        u64 tsc;
 
        /*
-        * If we're the non-boot CPU, nothing set the PDA stack
-        * canary up for us - and if we are the boot CPU we have
-        * a 0 stack canary. This is a good place for updating
-        * it, as we wont ever return from this function (so the
-        * invalid canaries already on the stack wont ever
-        * trigger).
-        *
+        * Build time only check to make sure the stack_canary is at
+        * offset 40 in the pda; this is a gcc ABI requirement
+        */
+       BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct x8664_pda, stack_canary) != 40);
+
+       /*
         * We both use the random pool and the current TSC as a source
         * of randomness. The TSC only matters for very early init,
         * there it already has some randomness on most systems. Later

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
index aa89eab..088bc9a 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
@@ -638,13 +638,6 @@ __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p)
        percpu_write(kernel_stack,
                  (unsigned long)task_stack_page(next_p) +
                  THREAD_SIZE - KERNEL_STACK_OFFSET);
-#ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
-       /*
-        * Build time only check to make sure the stack_canary is at
-        * offset 40 in the pda; this is a gcc ABI requirement
-        */
-       BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct x8664_pda, stack_canary) != 40);
-#endif
 
        /*
         * Now maybe reload the debug registers and handle I/O bitmaps