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authorArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>2006-09-26 10:52:38 +0200
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2006-09-26 10:52:38 +0200
commit0a4254058037eb172758961d0a5b94f4320a1425 (patch)
treee9e64daf007952322c7ab0671b2f2f841085c04d /include/linux/sched.h
parent[PATCH] Add the Kconfig option for the stackprotector feature (diff)
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[PATCH] Add the canary field to the PDA area and the task struct
This patch adds the per thread cookie field to the task struct and the PDA. Also it makes sure that the PDA value gets the new cookie value at context switch, and that a new task gets a new cookie at task creation time. Signed-off-by: Arjan van Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/sched.h')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 807556c5bcd2..9d4aa7f95bc8 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -819,6 +819,11 @@ struct task_struct {
unsigned did_exec:1;
pid_t pid;
pid_t tgid;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
+ /* Canary value for the -fstack-protector gcc feature */
+ unsigned long stack_canary;
+#endif
/*
* pointers to (original) parent process, youngest child, younger sibling,
* older sibling, respectively. (p->father can be replaced with