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Subject[PATCH] Fix max-stack calculators to skip canary
With the canary on the end of the stack, anything which
looks for 0 to mean unused when calculating max stack
excursions must skip over this non-zero magic number.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
---

Index: linux-2.6.25/kernel/exit.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.25.orig/kernel/exit.c 2008-04-20 22:34:16.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.25/kernel/exit.c 2008-04-22 11:38:05.769412824 -0500
@@ -826,6 +826,8 @@ static void check_stack_usage(void)
unsigned long *n = end_of_stack(current);
unsigned long free;

+ n++; /* skip over canary at end */
+
while (*n == 0)
n++;
free = (unsigned long)n - (unsigned long)end_of_stack(current);
Index: linux-2.6.25/kernel/sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.25.orig/kernel/sched.c 2008-04-20 22:34:19.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.25/kernel/sched.c 2008-04-22 11:48:06.975407495 -0500
@@ -5190,6 +5190,8 @@ void sched_show_task(struct task_struct
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
{
unsigned long *n = end_of_stack(p);
+
+ n++; /* skip over canary at end */
while (!*n)
n++;
free = (unsigned long)n - (unsigned long)end_of_stack(p);


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