The patch titled Subject: arm64: ascii armor the arm64 boot init stack canary has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is arm64-ascii-armor-the-arm64-boot-init-stack-canary.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/arm64-ascii-armor-the-arm64-boot-init-stack-canary.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/arm64-ascii-armor-the-arm64-boot-init-stack-canary.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: arm64: ascii armor the arm64 boot init stack canary Use the ascii-armor canary to prevent unterminated C string overflows from being able to successfully overwrite the canary, even if they somehow obtain the canary value. Inspired by execshield ascii-armor and Daniel Micay's linux-hardened tree. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170524155751.424-5-riel@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm64/include/asm/stackprotector.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN arch/arm64/include/asm/stackprotector.h~arm64-ascii-armor-the-arm64-boot-init-stack-canary arch/arm64/include/asm/stackprotector.h --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/stackprotector.h~arm64-ascii-armor-the-arm64-boot-init-stack-canary +++ a/arch/arm64/include/asm/stackprotector.h @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ static __always_inline void boot_init_st /* Try to get a semi random initial value. */ get_random_bytes(&canary, sizeof(canary)); canary ^= LINUX_VERSION_CODE; + canary &= CANARY_MASK; current->stack_canary = canary; __stack_chk_guard = current->stack_canary; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from riel@xxxxxxxxxx are randomstackprotect-introduce-get_random_canary-function.patch forkrandom-use-get_random_canary-to-set-tsk-stack_canary.patch x86-ascii-armor-the-x86_64-boot-init-stack-canary.patch arm64-ascii-armor-the-arm64-boot-init-stack-canary.patch sh64-ascii-armor-the-sh64-boot-init-stack-canary.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html