[PATCH] arm64: make STACKPROTECTOR_PER_TASK configurable.

Michal Suchanek msuchanek at suse.de
Tue Mar 9 12:35:44 GMT 2021


When using dummy-tools STACKPROTECTOR_PER_TASK is unconditionally
selected. This defeats the purpose of the all-enabled tool.

Description copied from arm

Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek at suse.de>
---
 arch/arm64/Kconfig | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index a8ff7cd5f096..f59d391e31a4 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -1549,9 +1549,20 @@ config RANDOMIZE_MODULE_REGION_FULL
 config CC_HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR_SYSREG
 	def_bool $(cc-option,-mstack-protector-guard=sysreg -mstack-protector-guard-reg=sp_el0 -mstack-protector-guard-offset=0)
 
+
 config STACKPROTECTOR_PER_TASK
-	def_bool y
+	bool "Use a unique stack canary value for each task"
 	depends on STACKPROTECTOR && CC_HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR_SYSREG
+	default y
+	help
+	  Due to the fact that GCC uses an ordinary symbol reference from
+	  which to load the value of the stack canary, this value can only
+	  change at reboot time on SMP systems, and all tasks running in the
+	  kernel's address space are forced to use the same canary value for
+	  the entire duration that the system is up.
+
+	  Enable this option to switch to a different method that uses a
+	  different canary value for each task.
 
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