Ah, nevermind, I just saw that this was changed in https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/tree/queue-4.4/drivers-char-random-add-get_random_long.patch .
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Jann Horn <[email protected]> wrote: > AFAICS get_random_long() doesn't exist in 4.4 (except in > arch/x86/boot/compressed/aslr.c)? IIRC the same problem already > occured with another kernel version? > > On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 5:25 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > <[email protected]> wrote: >> 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. >> >> ------------------ >> >> From: Daniel Micay <[email protected]> >> >> commit 5ea30e4e58040cfd6434c2f33dc3ea76e2c15b05 upstream. >> >> The stack canary is an 'unsigned long' and should be fully initialized to >> random data rather than only 32 bits of random data. >> >> Signed-off-by: Daniel Micay <[email protected]> >> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> >> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> >> Acked-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> >> Cc: Arjan van Ven <[email protected]> >> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> >> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> >> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> Cc: [email protected] >> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] >> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> >> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> >> >> --- >> kernel/fork.c | 2 +- >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> --- a/kernel/fork.c >> +++ b/kernel/fork.c >> @@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_stru >> set_task_stack_end_magic(tsk); >> >> #ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR >> - tsk->stack_canary = get_random_int(); >> + tsk->stack_canary = get_random_long(); >> #endif >> >> /* >> >>
