metag: Reduce maximum stack size to 256MB

Specify the maximum stack size for arches where the stack grows upward
(parisc and metag) in asm/processor.h rather than hard coding in
fs/exec.c so that metag can specify a smaller value of 256MB rather than
1GB.

This fixes a BUG on metag if the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is increased
beyond a safe value by root. E.g. when starting a process after running
"ulimit -H -s unlimited" it will then attempt to use a stack size of the
maximum 1GB which is far too big for metag's limited user virtual
address space (stack_top is usually 0x3ffff000):

BUG: failure at fs/exec.c:589/shift_arg_pages()!

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Cc: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # only needed for >= v3.9 (arch/metag)

diff --git a/arch/metag/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/metag/include/asm/processor.h
index f16477d..3be8581 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/metag/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/metag/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
 /* Add an extra page of padding at the top of the stack for the guard page. */
 #define STACK_TOP      (TASK_SIZE - PAGE_SIZE)
 #define STACK_TOP_MAX  STACK_TOP
+/* Maximum virtual space for stack */
+#define STACK_SIZE_MAX (1 << 28)       /* 256 MB */
 
 /* This decides where the kernel will search for a free chunk of vm
  * space during mmap's.

diff --cc arch/parisc/include/asm/processor.h
Simple merge

diff --cc fs/exec.c
Simple merge