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

From Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH] use get_random_long for the per-task stack canary
Date 2017-05-04 16:10 +0200
Message-ID <tDpCa-4uB-27@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References <tDp97-43E-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization Red Hat, Inc

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On Thu, 2017-05-04 at 09:32 -0400, 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.
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>
> 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

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[PATCH] use get_random_long for the per-task stack canary Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 15:40 +0200
  Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH] use get_random_long for the per-task  stack canary Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> - 2017-05-04 16:10 +0200
    Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH] use get_random_long for the per-task  stack canary Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-05-04 16:40 +0200
  [tip:core/urgent] stackprotector: Increase the per-task stack  canary's random range from 32 bits to 64 bits on 64-bit platforms tip-bot for Daniel Micay <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2017-05-05 10:20 +0200

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