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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/fork.c
parentb62a5c740df1e3d49a97349fce0c6a23f633d7fe (diff)
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[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/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index f9b014e3e700..a0dad84567c9 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);