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Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH] use get_random_long for the per-task
 stack canary
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On Thu, 2017-05-04 at 09:32 -0400, Daniel Micay wrote:
> The stack canary is an unsigned long and should be fully initialized
> to
> random data rather than only 32 bits of random data.
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>
> 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>