[PATCH] Add the canary field to the PDA area and the task struct

This patch adds the per thread cookie field to the task struct and the PDA.
Also it makes sure that the PDA value gets the new cookie value at context
switch, and that a new task gets a new cookie at task creation time.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/pda.h b/include/asm-x86_64/pda.h
index 6794ffaae433..e7773e0af865 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/pda.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/pda.h
@@ -16,7 +16,12 @@ struct x8664_pda {
         unsigned long oldrsp;       /* 24 user rsp for system call */
         int irqcount;               /* 32 Irq nesting counter. Starts with -1 */
         int cpunumber;              /* 36 Logical CPU number */
-        char *irqstackptr;      /* 40 top of irqstack */
+#ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
+        unsigned long stack_canary;     /* 40 stack canary value */
+                                        /* gcc-ABI: this canary MUST be at
+                                           offset 40!!! */
+#endif
+        char *irqstackptr;
         int nodenumber;             /* number of current node */
         unsigned int __softirq_pending;
         unsigned int __nmi_count;       /* number of NMI on this CPUs */
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 807556c5bcd2..9d4aa7f95bc8 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -819,6 +819,11 @@ struct task_struct {
         unsigned did_exec:1;
         pid_t pid;
         pid_t tgid;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
+        /* Canary value for the -fstack-protector gcc feature */
+        unsigned long stack_canary;
+#endif
         /* 
          * pointers to (original) parent process, youngest child, younger sibling,
          * older sibling, respectively.  (p->father can be replaced with