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+#ifndef _ASM_STACKPROTECTOR_H
+#define _ASM_STACKPROTECTOR_H 1
+
+#include <asm/tsc.h>
+#include <asm/pda.h>
+
+/*
+ * Initialize the stackprotector canary value.
+ *
+ * NOTE: this must only be called from functions that never return,
+ * and it must always be inlined.
+ */
+static __always_inline void boot_init_stack_canary(void)
+{
+ u64 canary;
+ u64 tsc;
+
+ /*
+ * If we're the non-boot CPU, nothing set the PDA stack
+ * canary up for us - and if we are the boot CPU we have
+ * a 0 stack canary. This is a good place for updating
+ * it, as we wont ever return from this function (so the
+ * invalid canaries already on the stack wont ever
+ * trigger).
+ *
+ * We both use the random pool and the current TSC as a source
+ * of randomness. The TSC only matters for very early init,
+ * there it already has some randomness on most systems. Later
+ * on during the bootup the random pool has true entropy too.
+ */
+ get_random_bytes(&canary, sizeof(canary));
+ tsc = __native_read_tsc();
+ canary += tsc + (tsc << 32UL);
+
+ current->stack_canary = canary;
+ write_pda(stack_canary, canary);
+}
+
+#endif