stackprotector: Increase the per-task stack canary's random range from 32 bits to...
authorDaniel Micay <[email protected]>
Thu, 4 May 2017 13:32:09 +0000 (09:32 -0400)
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>
Fri, 5 May 2017 06:05:13 +0000 (08:05 +0200)
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 <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Arjan van Ven <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
kernel/fork.c

index 3a4343cdfe9043ef9afef33c761ab37ecf2d83e6..d681f8f10d2d9aa27fd2294b5a7943dfc01e880c 100644 (file)
@@ -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
 
        /*