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authorArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>2006-09-26 04:52:38 -0400
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2006-09-26 04:52:38 -0400
commit0a4254058037eb172758961d0a5b94f4320a1425 (patch)
treee9e64daf007952322c7ab0671b2f2f841085c04d /kernel
parentb62a5c740df1e3d49a97349fce0c6a23f633d7fe (diff)
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index f9b014e3e700..a0dad84567c9 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
45#include <linux/cn_proc.h> 45#include <linux/cn_proc.h>
46#include <linux/delayacct.h> 46#include <linux/delayacct.h>
47#include <linux/taskstats_kern.h> 47#include <linux/taskstats_kern.h>
48#include <linux/random.h>
48 49
49#include <asm/pgtable.h> 50#include <asm/pgtable.h>
50#include <asm/pgalloc.h> 51#include <asm/pgalloc.h>
@@ -175,6 +176,10 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *orig)
175 tsk->thread_info = ti; 176 tsk->thread_info = ti;
176 setup_thread_stack(tsk, orig); 177 setup_thread_stack(tsk, orig);
177 178
179#ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
180 tsk->stack_canary = get_random_int();
181#endif
182
178 /* One for us, one for whoever does the "release_task()" (usually parent) */ 183 /* One for us, one for whoever does the "release_task()" (usually parent) */
179 atomic_set(&tsk->usage,2); 184 atomic_set(&tsk->usage,2);
180 atomic_set(&tsk->fs_excl, 0); 185 atomic_set(&tsk->fs_excl, 0);