[PATCH 4/5] arm64: ascii armor the arm64 boot init stack canary

From: riel
Date: Fri May 19 2017 - 17:36:57 EST


From: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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 PaX/grsecurity.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/stackprotector.h | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/stackprotector.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/stackprotector.h
index fe5e287dc56b..b86a0865ddf1 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/stackprotector.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/stackprotector.h
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ static __always_inline void boot_init_stack_canary(void)
/* Try to get a semi random initial value. */
get_random_bytes(&canary, sizeof(canary));
canary ^= LINUX_VERSION_CODE;
+ canary &= CANARY_MASK;

current->stack_canary = canary;
__stack_chk_guard = current->stack_canary;
--
2.9.3