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

The stack canary is an 'unsigned long' and should be fully initialized to random data rather than only 32 bits of random data.

Daniel Micay committed 9 years ago

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@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *orig, int node) · 535 unmodified lines
536536 set_task_stack_end_magic(tsk);
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538538 #ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
539− tsk->stack_canary = get_random_int();
539+ tsk->stack_canary = get_random_long();
540540 #endif
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542542 /*