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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h
index c7f0d10bae7..2383e5bb475 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h
@@ -16,13 +16,12 @@ static __always_inline void boot_init_stack_canary(void)
u64 tsc;
/*
- * If we're the non-boot CPU, nothing set the PDA stack
- * canary up for us - and if we are the boot CPU we have
- * a 0 stack canary. This is a good place for updating
- * it, as we wont ever return from this function (so the
- * invalid canaries already on the stack wont ever
- * trigger).
- *
+ * Build time only check to make sure the stack_canary is at
+ * offset 40 in the pda; this is a gcc ABI requirement
+ */
+ BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct x8664_pda, stack_canary) != 40);
+
+ /*
* We both use the random pool and the current TSC as a source
* of randomness. The TSC only matters for very early init,
* there it already has some randomness on most systems. Later