M. Feser KBS GmbH
Date: 09.11.2017

Backport to Kernel 4.4:
deleted comment patch
adjusted line numbers

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From c6c314a613cd7d03fb97713e0d642b493de42e69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 22:45:43 -0700
Subject: sched/core: Add try_get_task_stack() and put_task_stack()

There are a few places in the kernel that access stack memory
belonging to a different task.  Before we can start freeing task
stacks before the task_struct is freed, we need a way for those code
paths to pin the stack.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/17a434f50ad3d77000104f21666575e10a9c1fbd.1474003868.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 include/linux/sched.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 init/Kconfig          |  3 +++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index a287e8b..a958672 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -2841,6 +2841,14 @@ static inline unsigned long *end_of_stack(struct task_struct *p)
 }
 
 #endif
+
+static inline void *try_get_task_stack(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+	return task_stack_page(tsk);
+}
+
+static inline void put_task_stack(struct task_struct *tsk) {}
+
 #define task_stack_end_corrupted(task) \
 		(*(end_of_stack(task)) != STACK_END_MAGIC)
 
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