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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH] fork: make whole stack_canary random
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 22:26:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877f8orz0d.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161031212251.GB3286@pc.thejh.net> (Jann Horn's message of "Mon, 31 Oct 2016 22:22:51 +0100")

* Jann Horn:

> Until recently: Zero, no guard pages below stacks, stack overflow
> goes straight into some other allocation.
> Now: One guard page, thanks to a lot of work by Andy Lutomirski.
> (I think that change is in the current 4.9-rc3 kernel, but not in
> any stable kernel yet.)

Sorry, I meant for the stack allocation in user space.

(I'm very much a user space person only.)

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-31 21:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-31 14:04 [PATCH] fork: make whole stack_canary random Jann Horn
2016-10-31 16:04 ` Kees Cook
2016-10-31 16:29   ` [kernel-hardening] " Jann Horn
2016-10-31 20:45     ` Florian Weimer
2016-10-31 20:55       ` Jann Horn
2016-10-31 20:56       ` Daniel Micay
2016-10-31 21:01         ` Daniel Micay
2016-10-31 21:10           ` Florian Weimer
2016-10-31 21:21             ` Daniel Micay
2016-10-31 21:38               ` Florian Weimer
2016-10-31 22:02                 ` Daniel Micay
2016-10-31 22:11                   ` Florian Weimer
2016-10-31 21:22             ` Jann Horn
2016-10-31 21:26               ` Daniel Micay
2016-10-31 21:26               ` Florian Weimer [this message]

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