Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH] use get_random_long for the per-task stack canary

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Thu May 04 2017 - 10:06:26 EST


On Thu, 2017-05-04 at 09:32 -0400, Daniel Micay wrote:
> The stack canary is an unsigned long and should be fully initialized
> to
> random data rather than only 32 bits of random data.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@xxxxxxxxx>
>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>