Commit bf9eb544 authored by Rik van Riel's avatar Rik van Riel Committed by Linus Torvalds

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.comSigned-off-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarKees 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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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......@@ -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
......
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