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

From Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] use get_random_long for the per-task stack canary
Date 2017-05-04 15:40 +0200
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On 5/4/2017 6:32 AM, 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.

that makes sense to me... ack

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Re: [PATCH] use get_random_long for the per-task stack canary Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> - 2017-05-04 15:40 +0200

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