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From: lethal@linux-sh.org (Paul Mundt)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH (sh-2.6) 1/2] sh: add stack smashing protection support
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 13:40:52 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101208044052.GA31508@linux-sh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201012071515.25418.vapier@gentoo.org>

On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 03:15:23PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 05:20:53 Filippo ARCIDIACONO wrote:
> > Add stack smashing suppurt for SH architecture. This is based on work
> > from Nicolas Pitre for ARM (c743f38013aeff58ef6252601e397b5ba281c633).
> > Use the ARM boot_init_stack_canary function to initialize the guard
> > canary. It has been placed under asm-generic to allow archtectures
> > based on __stack_chk_guard to use a common implementation.
> > Update the __stack_chk_guard global variable with the value stored in
> > the task struct whenever a task switch occurs to allow for different
> > canary values per task. This cannot work on SMP where the initial
> > canary value is always used.
> > 
> >  arch/sh/Kconfig                      |   13 +++++++++++
> >  arch/sh/Makefile                     |    4 +++
> >  arch/sh/include/asm/stackprotector.h |   10 ++++++++
> >  arch/sh/kernel/process_32.c          |    9 +++++++
> >  include/asm-generic/stackprotector.h |   39
> 
> if you're starting asm-generic stuff, why not go the distance and do it all in 
> common code ?  your sh/Kconfig and sh/Makefile changes arent specific to 
> SuperH, nor is the symbol in process_32.c.

Indeed. It would be nice to simply shove this in to lib/ with the
Makefile bits in the top-level Makefile. 

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-08  4:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-07 10:20 [PATCH (sh-2.6) 1/2] sh: add stack smashing protection support Filippo ARCIDIACONO
2010-12-07 10:20 ` [PATCH (sh-2.6) 2/2] arm: use generic implementation of boot_init_stack_canary Filippo ARCIDIACONO
2010-12-07 18:29   ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-12-07 13:43 ` [PATCH (sh-2.6) 1/2] sh: add stack smashing protection support Uwe Kleine-König
2010-12-07 18:28 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-12-07 20:15 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-12-08  4:40   ` Paul Mundt [this message]
2010-12-09 15:56     ` Carmelo AMOROSO
2010-12-09 16:07       ` Mike Frysinger
2010-12-09 16:45         ` Carmelo AMOROSO
2010-12-09 17:32           ` Mike Frysinger
2010-12-09 18:23             ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-12-09 18:52               ` Carmelo Amoroso
2010-12-09 21:14               ` Mike Frysinger
2010-12-10  5:56                 ` Carmelo AMOROSO
2010-12-10  6:38                   ` Mike Frysinger

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