Patch "Revert "stackprotector: Increase the per-task stack canary's random range from 32 bits to 64 bits on 64-bit platforms"" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

Patch "Revert "stackprotector: Increase the per-task stack canary's random range from 32 bits to 64 bits on 64-bit platforms"" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    Revert "stackprotector: Increase the per-task stack canary's random range from 32 bits to 64 bits on 64-bit platforms"

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     revert-stackprotector-increase-the-per-task-stack-canary-s-random-range-from-32-bits-to-64-bits-on-64-bit-platforms.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From bc67a9f0ba89051916f192895317a0b5a431ad7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 12:09:37 +0200
Subject: Revert "stackprotector: Increase the per-task stack canary's random range from 32 bits to 64 bits on 64-bit platforms"

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

This reverts commit 609a3e81550b0b4ea87197b0f59455a7bcff975a which is
commit 5ea30e4e58040cfd6434c2f33dc3ea76e2c15b05 upstream.

It shouldn't have been backported to 3.18, as we do not have
get_random_long() in that kernel tree.

Reported-by: Philip Müller <philm@manjaro.org>
Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Arjan van Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/fork.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_stru
 	set_task_stack_end_magic(tsk);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
-	tsk->stack_canary = get_random_long();
+	tsk->stack_canary = get_random_int();
 #endif
 
 	/*


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gregkh@linuxfoundation.org are

queue-3.18/revert-stackprotector-increase-the-per-task-stack-canary-s-random-range-from-32-bits-to-64-bits-on-64-bit-platforms.patch