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

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] use get_random_long for the per-task stack canary
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 06:33:15 -0700
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20170504133209.3053-1-danielmicay@gmail.com>
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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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- [PATCH] use get_random_long for the per-task stack canary
  - From: Daniel Micay

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