#ifndef _ASM_STACKPROTECTOR_H
#define _ASM_STACKPROTECTOR_H 1
+#include <asm/tsc.h>
+
/*
* Initialize the stackprotector canary value.
*
*/
static __always_inline void boot_init_stack_canary(void)
{
+ u64 canary;
+ 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):
+ * trigger).
+ *
+ * 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
+ * on during the bootup the random pool has true entropy too.
*/
- current->stack_canary = get_random_int();
- write_pda(stack_canary, current->stack_canary);
+ get_random_bytes(&canary, sizeof(canary));
+ tsc = __native_read_tsc();
+ canary += tsc + (tsc << 32UL);
+
+ current->stack_canary = canary;
+ write_pda(stack_canary, canary);
}
#endif