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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, ak@suse.de
Subject: [patch 2/5] -fstack-protector feature: Add the Kconfig option
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:50:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1155747038.3023.67.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1155746902.3023.63.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

Subject: [patch 2/5] Add the Kconfig option for the stackprotector feature
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>

This patch adds the config options for -fstack-protector.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

---
 arch/x86_64/Kconfig |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6.18-rc4-stackprot/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.18-rc4-stackprot.orig/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc4-stackprot/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
@@ -522,6 +522,30 @@ config SECCOMP
 
 	  If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here.
 
+config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
+	bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPRIMENTAL)"
+	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+	help
+         This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This
+	  feature puts, at the beginning of critical 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, or a distribution
+	  gcc with the feature backported. Older versions are automatically
+	  detected and for those versions, this configuration option is ignored.
+
+config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL
+	bool "Use stack-protector for all functions"
+	depends on CC_STACKPROTECTOR
+	help
+	  Normally, GCC only inserts the canary value protection for
+	  functions that use large-ish on-stack buffers. By enabling
+	  this option, GCC will be asked to do this for ALL functions.
+
 source kernel/Kconfig.hz
 
 config REORDER


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-16 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-16 16:48 [patch 0/5] -fstack-protector feature for the kernel (try 2) Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-16 16:49 ` [patch 1/5] -fstack-protector feature: annotate the PDA offsets Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-16 16:50 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-08-16 18:12   ` [patch 2/5] -fstack-protector feature: Add the Kconfig option Adrian Bunk
2006-08-18 11:08   ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-18 11:23     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-18 14:05       ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-18 13:10         ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-18 13:30           ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-18 17:21         ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-08-16 16:51 ` [patch 3/5] -fstack-protector feature: Add the canary field to the PDA area Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-16 16:52 ` [patch 4/5] -fstack-protector feature: Add the __stack_chk_fail() function Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-16 16:53 ` [patch 5/5] -fstack-protector feature: Enable the compiler flags in CFLAGS Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-16 18:55   ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-08-16 19:24     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-18 11:15 ` [patch 0/5] -fstack-protector feature for the kernel (try 2) Andi Kleen
2006-08-18 11:29   ` Arjan van de Ven

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