lkdtm: fix stack protector trigger

The -fstack-protector compiler flag will only build stack protections if
a character array is seen. Additionally, the offset to the saved
instruction pointer changes based on architecture, so stomp much harder
(64 bytes) when corrupting the stack.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
index 08aad69c8da4..adb6bde2ecc2 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
@@ -295,10 +295,10 @@ static void lkdtm_do_action(enum ctype which)
                 (void) recursive_loop(0);
                 break;
         case CT_CORRUPT_STACK: {
-                volatile u32 data[8];
-                volatile u32 *p = data;
+                /* Make sure the compiler creates and uses an 8 char array. */
+                volatile char data[8];
 
-                p[12] = 0x12345678;
+                memset((void *)data, 0, 64);
                 break;
         }
         case CT_UNALIGNED_LOAD_STORE_WRITE: {