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Austin Clements authored
Currently, when shrinkstack computes whether the halved stack allocation will have enough room for the stack, it accounts for the stack space that's actively in use but fails to leave extra room for the stack guard space. As a result, *if* the minimum stack size is small enough or the guard large enough, it may shrink the stack and leave less than enough room to run nosplit functions. If the next function called after the stack shrink is a nosplit function, it may overflow the stack without noticing and overwrite non-stack memory. We don't think this is happening under normal conditions right now. The minimum stack allocation is 2K and the guard is 640 bytes. The "worst case" stack shrink is from 4K (4048 bytes after stack barrier array reservation) to 2K (2016 bytes after stack barrier array reservation), which means the largest "used" size that will qualify for shrinking is 4048/4 - 8 = 1004 bytes. After copying, that leaves 2016 - 1004 = 1012 bytes of available stack, which is significantly more than the guard space. If we were to reduce the minimum stack size to 1K or raise the guard space above 1012 bytes, the logic in shrinkstack would no longer leave enough space. It's also possible to trigger this problem by setting firstStackBarrierOffset to 0, which puts stack barriers in a debug mode that steals away *half* of the stack for the stack barrier array reservation. Then, the largest "used" size that qualifies for shrinking is (4096/2)/4 - 8 = 504 bytes. After copying, that leaves (2096/2) - 504 = 8 bytes of available stack; much less than the required guard space. This causes failures like those in issue #11027 because func gc() shrinks its own stack and then immediately calls casgstatus (a nosplit function), which overflows the stack and overwrites a free list pointer in the neighboring span. However, since this seems to require the special debug mode, we don't think it's responsible for issue #11027. To forestall all of these subtle issues, this commit modifies shrinkstack to correctly account for the guard space when considering whether to halve the stack allocation. Change-Id: I7312584addc63b5bfe55cc384a1012f6181f1b9d Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/10714Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org> Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
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