If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here.
+config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
+ bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ help
+ This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This
+ feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
+ the stack just before the return address, and validates
+ the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
+ overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
+ overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
+ neutralized via a kernel panic.
+
+ This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above.
+
config USE_OF
bool
select OF
LDFLAGS += -m $(ld-emul)
+ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
+ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fstack-protector
+endif
+
ifdef CONFIG_MIPS
CHECKFLAGS += $(shell $(CC) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -dM -E -x c /dev/null | \
egrep -vw '__GNUC_(|MINOR_|PATCHLEVEL_)_' | \
--- /dev/null
+/*
+ * GCC stack protector support.
+ *
+ * (This is directly adopted from the ARM implementation)
+ *
+ * Stack protector works by putting predefined pattern at the start of
+ * the stack frame and verifying that it hasn't been overwritten when
+ * returning from the function. The pattern is called stack canary
+ * and gcc expects it to be defined by a global variable called
+ * "__stack_chk_guard" on MIPS. This unfortunately means that on SMP
+ * we cannot have a different canary value per task.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _ASM_STACKPROTECTOR_H
+#define _ASM_STACKPROTECTOR_H 1
+
+#include <linux/random.h>
+#include <linux/version.h>
+
+extern unsigned long __stack_chk_guard;
+
+/*
+ * Initialize the stackprotector canary value.
+ *
+ * NOTE: this must only be called from functions that never return,
+ * and it must always be inlined.
+ */
+static __always_inline void boot_init_stack_canary(void)
+{
+ unsigned long canary;
+
+ /* Try to get a semi random initial value. */
+ get_random_bytes(&canary, sizeof(canary));
+ canary ^= LINUX_VERSION_CODE;
+
+ current->stack_canary = canary;
+ __stack_chk_guard = current->stack_canary;
+}
+
+#endif /* _ASM_STACKPROTECTOR_H */