4.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Jann Horn <[email protected]> commit 29d6455178a09e1dc340380c582b13356227e8df upstream. Until now, hitting this BUG_ON caused a recursive oops (because oops handling involves do_exit(), which calls into the scheduler, which in turn raises an oops), which caused stuff below the stack to be overwritten until a panic happened (e.g. via an oops in interrupt context, caused by the overwritten CPU index in the thread_info). Just panic directly. Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- kernel/sched/core.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -3047,7 +3047,8 @@ static noinline void __schedule_bug(stru static inline void schedule_debug(struct task_struct *prev) { #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK - BUG_ON(task_stack_end_corrupted(prev)); + if (task_stack_end_corrupted(prev)) + panic("corrupted stack end detected inside scheduler\n"); #endif if (unlikely(in_atomic_preempt_off())) {

