[PATCH v2 0/5] stackprotector: ascii armor the stack canary

From	riel@redhat.com
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH v2 0/5] stackprotector: ascii armor the stack canary
Date	2017-05-24 18:00 +0200
Message-ID	<tKGRz-4dh-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Zero out the first byte of the stack canary value on 64 bit systems,
in order to mitigate unterminated C string overflows.

The null byte both prevents C string functions from reading the
canary, and from writing it if the canary value were guessed or
obtained through some other means.
    
Reducing the entropy by 8 bits is acceptable on 64-bit systems,
which will still have 56 bits of entropy left, but not on 32
bit systems, so the "ascii armor" canary is only implemented on
64-bit systems.

Inspired by the "ascii armor" code in execshield and Daniel Micay's
linux-hardened tree.

Also see https://github.com/thestinger/linux-hardened/

v2:
 - improve changelogs
 - address Ingo's coding style comments

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[PATCH v2 0/5] stackprotector: ascii armor the stack canary riel@redhat.com - 2017-05-24 18:00 +0200
  [PATCH 1/5] random,stackprotect: introduce get_random_canary function riel@redhat.com - 2017-05-24 18:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/5] random,stackprotect: introduce get_random_canary function Kees Cook <keescook@google.com> - 2017-05-24 18:20 +0200
  [PATCH 4/5] arm64: ascii armor the arm64 boot init stack canary riel@redhat.com - 2017-05-24 18:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 4/5] arm64: ascii armor the arm64 boot init stack canary Kees Cook <keescook@google.com> - 2017-05-24 18:20 +0200
  [PATCH 3/5] x86: ascii armor the x86_64 boot init stack canary riel@redhat.com - 2017-05-24 18:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3/5] x86: ascii armor the x86_64 boot init stack canary Kees Cook <keescook@google.com> - 2017-05-24 18:20 +0200
  [PATCH 2/5] fork,random: use get_random_canary to set tsk->stack_canary riel@redhat.com - 2017-05-24 18:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/5] fork,random: use get_random_canary to set tsk->stack_canary Kees Cook <keescook@google.com> - 2017-05-24 18:20 +0200
  [PATCH 5/5] sh64: ascii armor the sh64 boot init stack canary Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> - 2017-05-24 18:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 5/5] sh64: ascii armor the sh64 boot init stack canary Kees Cook <keescook@google.com> - 2017-05-24 18:40 +0200
  [PATCH 5/5] sh64: ascii armor the sh64 boot init stack canary riel@redhat.com - 2017-05-24 18:50 +0200

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