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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-05-27 12:09:37 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-06-07 12:01:50 +0200
commit2bc281ebacf969770597fad415547016f0457b53 (patch)
tree9299aa8beeedc91fdc83299feaca22902f53a20f /kernel
parent6b65a8f64f4fd256ac0f6b9e97e9939ae18fc6c7 (diff)
Revert "stackprotector: Increase the per-task stack canary's random range from 32 bits to 64 bits on 64-bit platforms"
This reverts commit 609a3e81550b0b4ea87197b0f59455a7bcff975a which is commit 5ea30e4e58040cfd6434c2f33dc3ea76e2c15b05 upstream. It shouldn't have been backported to 3.18, as we do not have get_random_long() in that kernel tree. Reported-by: Philip Müller <philm@manjaro.org> Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: 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 Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index f45e647f8e55..0a4f601e35ab 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *orig)
set_task_stack_end_magic(tsk);
#ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
- tsk->stack_canary = get_random_long();
+ tsk->stack_canary = get_random_int();
#endif
/*