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authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>2017-07-12 23:36:23 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-07-13 01:26:03 +0200
commitbf9eb5443844e288b73f7963dfc67a0d2fbc3849 (patch)
tree1891d6e309923092a4f6bd8bede3ae37ccb50be6
parentfork,random: use get_random_canary() to set tsk->stack_canary (diff)
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x86: ascii armor the x86_64 boot init stack canary
Use the ascii-armor canary to prevent unterminated C string overflows from being able to successfully overwrite the canary, even if they somehow obtain the canary value. Inspired by execshield ascii-armor and Daniel Micay's linux-hardened tree. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170524155751.424-4-riel@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h
index dcbd9bcce714..8abedf1d650e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ static __always_inline void boot_init_stack_canary(void)
get_random_bytes(&canary, sizeof(canary));
tsc = rdtsc();
canary += tsc + (tsc << 32UL);
+ canary &= CANARY_MASK;
current->stack_canary = canary;
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64