Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] SROP Mitigation: Sigreturn Cookies

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Mar 29 2016 - 18:55:47 EST


On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> So you could do 4 32
>
> - the random value
> - the low 32 bits of the address of the cookie
> - the low 32 bits of the return point stack and instruction pointer

Oops, editing mishap. That was supposed to be about the 128-bit md5
chunk, which uses 4 32-bit values, but then I edited things and didn't
get back to it.

Linus