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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2013-07-08 10:01:30 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-07-24 22:47:19 -0700
commit4f198289747f0391bc5a5574279b1791a8ca2d06 (patch)
treefcc306d3c263d6b13b10d7b3c3d36b96c161d1f5 /drivers/misc
parent7b5d4122d39f7c26ce42806b7a67cf04537545e6 (diff)
downloadlinux-4f198289747f0391bc5a5574279b1791a8ca2d06.tar.bz2
lkdtm: fix stack protector trigger
The -fstack-protector compiler flag will only build stack protections if a character array is seen. Additionally, the offset to the saved instruction pointer changes based on architecture, so stomp much harder (64 bytes) when corrupting the stack. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/misc')
-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/lkdtm.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
index 08aad69c8da4..adb6bde2ecc2 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
@@ -295,10 +295,10 @@ static void lkdtm_do_action(enum ctype which)
(void) recursive_loop(0);
break;
case CT_CORRUPT_STACK: {
- volatile u32 data[8];
- volatile u32 *p = data;
+ /* Make sure the compiler creates and uses an 8 char array. */
+ volatile char data[8];
- p[12] = 0x12345678;
+ memset((void *)data, 0, 64);
break;
}
case CT_UNALIGNED_LOAD_STORE_WRITE: {