panic: print more informative messages on stackprotect failure
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:02:13 +0000 (09:02 +0100)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Mon, 26 May 2008 14:15:31 +0000 (16:15 +0200)
pointed out by pageexec@freemail.hu:

we just simply panic() when there's a stackprotector attack - giving
the attacked person no information about what kernel code the attack went
against.

print out the attacked function.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
kernel/panic.c

index 425567f..f236001 100644 (file)
@@ -327,7 +327,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(warn_on_slowpath);
  */
 void __stack_chk_fail(void)
 {
-       panic("stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted");
+       panic("stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: %p\n",
+               __builtin_return_address(0));
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__stack_chk_fail);
 #endif