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    x86/stackprotector: Remove the call to boot_init_stack_canary() from cpu_startup_entry() · 977e4be5
    Christophe Leroy authored
    The following commit:
    
      d7880812 ("idle: Add the stack canary init to cpu_startup_entry()")
    
    ... added an x86 specific boot_init_stack_canary() call to the generic
    cpu_startup_entry() as a temporary hack, with the intention to remove
    the #ifdef CONFIG_X86 later.
    
    More than 5 years later let's finally realize that plan! :-)
    
    While implementing stack protector support for PowerPC, we found
    that calling boot_init_stack_canary() is also needed for PowerPC
    which uses per task (TLS) stack canary like the X86.
    
    However, calling boot_init_stack_canary() would break architectures
    using a global stack canary (ARM, SH, MIPS and XTENSA).
    
    Instead of modifying the #ifdef CONFIG_X86 to an even messier:
    
       #if defined(CONFIG_X86) || defined(CONFIG_PPC)
    
    PowerPC implemented the call to boot_init_stack_canary() in the function
    calling cpu_startup_entry().
    
    Let's try the same cleanup on the x86 side as well.
    
    On x86 we have two functions calling cpu_startup_entry():
    
     - start_secondary()
     - cpu_bringup_and_idle()
    
    start_secondary() already calls boot_init_stack_canary(), so
    it's good, and this patch adds the call to boot_init_stack_canary()
    in cpu_bringup_and_idle().
    
    I.e. now x86 catches up to the rest of the world and the ugly init
    sequence in init/main.c can be removed from cpu_startup_entry().
    
    As a final benefit we can also remove the <linux/stackprotector.h>
    dependency from <linux/sched.h>.
    
    [ mingo: Improved the changelog a bit, added language explaining x86 borkage and sched.h change. ]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
    Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
    Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181020072649.5B59310483E@pc16082vm.idsi0.si.c-s.frSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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