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stackprotector: Increase the per-task stack canary's random range from 32 bits to...
authorDaniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>
Thu, 4 May 2017 13:32:09 +0000 (09:32 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 25 May 2017 13:46:26 +0000 (15:46 +0200)
commit 5ea30e4e58040cfd6434c2f33dc3ea76e2c15b05 upstream.

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
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170504133209.3053-1-danielmicay@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/fork.c

index fa2ad9829bbab895c2bd20f39b4352759f931195..4cc564ece2cf624589e9fb4b7be6354fb366bc5a 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
 
        /*