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authorArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>2006-09-26 10:52:38 +0200
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2006-09-26 10:52:38 +0200
commit0a4254058037eb172758961d0a5b94f4320a1425 (patch)
treee9e64daf007952322c7ab0671b2f2f841085c04d /include/asm-x86_64
parent[PATCH] Add the Kconfig option for the stackprotector feature (diff)
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[PATCH] Add the canary field to the PDA area and the task struct
This patch adds the per thread cookie field to the task struct and the PDA. Also it makes sure that the PDA value gets the new cookie value at context switch, and that a new task gets a new cookie at task creation time. Signed-off-by: Arjan van Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-x86_64')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-x86_64/pda.h7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/pda.h b/include/asm-x86_64/pda.h
index 6794ffaae433..e7773e0af865 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/pda.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/pda.h
@@ -16,7 +16,12 @@ struct x8664_pda {
unsigned long oldrsp; /* 24 user rsp for system call */
int irqcount; /* 32 Irq nesting counter. Starts with -1 */
int cpunumber; /* 36 Logical CPU number */
- char *irqstackptr; /* 40 top of irqstack */
+#ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
+ unsigned long stack_canary; /* 40 stack canary value */
+ /* gcc-ABI: this canary MUST be at
+ offset 40!!! */
+#endif
+ char *irqstackptr;
int nodenumber; /* number of current node */
unsigned int __softirq_pending;
unsigned int __nmi_count; /* number of NMI on this CPUs */