From 5c79d2a517a9905599d192db8ce77ab5f1a2faca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:31:00 +0900 Subject: x86: fix x86_32 stack protector bugs Impact: fix x86_32 stack protector Brian Gerst found out that %gs was being initialized to stack_canary instead of stack_canary - 20, which basically gave the same canary value for all threads. Fixing this also exposed the following bugs. * cpu_idle() didn't call boot_init_stack_canary() * stack canary switching in switch_to() was being done too late making the initial run of a new thread use the old stack canary value. Fix all of them and while at it update comment in cpu_idle() about calling boot_init_stack_canary(). Reported-by: Brian Gerst Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S index 924e31615fb..cf21fd0cf6a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S @@ -447,6 +447,7 @@ is386: movl $2,%ecx # set MP jne 1f movl $per_cpu__gdt_page,%eax movl $per_cpu__stack_canary,%ecx + subl $20, %ecx movw %cx, 8 * GDT_ENTRY_STACK_CANARY + 2(%eax) shrl $16, %ecx movb %cl, 8 * GDT_ENTRY_STACK_CANARY + 4(%eax) -- cgit v1.2.3