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authorDaniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>2017-05-04 09:32:09 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-05-05 08:05:13 +0200
commit5ea30e4e58040cfd6434c2f33dc3ea76e2c15b05 (patch)
tree050d8d790a8434e1379b525f2f0aa33d1370b610
parentd3b5d35290d729a2518af00feca867385a1b08fa (diff)
downloadlinux-5ea30e4e58040cfd6434c2f33dc3ea76e2c15b05.tar.bz2
stackprotector: Increase the per-task stack canary's random range from 32 bits to 64 bits on 64-bit platforms
The stack canary is an 'unsigned long' and should be fully initialized to random data rather than only 32 bits of random data. Signed-off-by: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Arjan van Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170504133209.3053-1-danielmicay@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 3a4343cdfe90..d681f8f10d2d 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *orig, int node)
set_task_stack_end_magic(tsk);
#ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
- tsk->stack_canary = get_random_int();
+ tsk->stack_canary = get_random_long();
#endif
/*