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authorArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>2006-09-26 10:52:38 +0200
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2006-09-26 10:52:38 +0200
commit0a4254058037eb172758961d0a5b94f4320a1425 (patch)
treee9e64daf007952322c7ab0671b2f2f841085c04d /kernel
parentb62a5c740df1e3d49a97349fce0c6a23f633d7fe (diff)
[PATCH] Add the canary field to the PDA area and the task struct
This patch adds the per thread cookie field to the task struct and the PDA. Also it makes sure that the PDA value gets the new cookie value at context switch, and that a new task gets a new cookie at task creation time. Signed-off-by: Arjan van Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index f9b014e3e70..a0dad84567c 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
#include <linux/cn_proc.h>
#include <linux/delayacct.h>
#include <linux/taskstats_kern.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
#include <asm/pgtable.h>
#include <asm/pgalloc.h>
@@ -175,6 +176,10 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *orig)
tsk->thread_info = ti;
setup_thread_stack(tsk, orig);
+#ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
+ tsk->stack_canary = get_random_int();
+#endif
+
/* One for us, one for whoever does the "release_task()" (usually parent) */
atomic_set(&tsk->usage,2);
atomic_set(&tsk->fs_excl, 0);