Messages in this thread | | | From | Florian Weimer <> | Subject | Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH] fork: make whole stack_canary random | Date | Mon, 31 Oct 2016 22:26:26 +0100 |
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* Jann Horn:
> Until recently: Zero, no guard pages below stacks, stack overflow > goes straight into some other allocation. > Now: One guard page, thanks to a lot of work by Andy Lutomirski. > (I think that change is in the current 4.9-rc3 kernel, but not in > any stable kernel yet.)
Sorry, I meant for the stack allocation in user space.
(I'm very much a user space person only.)
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