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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Patch 4/6  randomize the stack pointer
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:40:48 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0501271539550.13927@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050127203206.GA2180@infradead.org>

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

>> +unsigned long arch_align_stack(unsigned long sp)
>> +{
>> +	if (randomize_va_space)
>> +		sp -= ((get_random_int() % 4096) << 4);
>> +	return sp & ~0xf;
>> +}
>
> this looks like it'd work nicely on all architectures.

I guess it should work for all architectures using ELF,
not sure if it might break some of the more obscure
architectures ...

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-01-27 20:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-27 10:11 Patch 0/6 virtual address space randomisation Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-27 10:12 ` Patch 1/6 introduce sysctl Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-27 10:36   ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-27 11:13     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-27 18:16   ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-27 19:11     ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-27 19:46       ` Dave Jones
2005-01-27 19:53         ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-27 19:53         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-04 21:27   ` Benoit Boissinot
2005-01-27 10:12 ` Patch 2/6 introduce helper infrastructure Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-27 10:41   ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-27 11:58     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-27 12:27       ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-27 12:43         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-01 21:14   ` Matt Mackall
2005-01-27 10:12 ` Patch 3/6 per process flag Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-27 10:13 ` Patch 4/6 randomize the stack pointer Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-27 10:21   ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-27 17:38   ` John Richard Moser
2005-01-27 17:47     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-27 18:04       ` John Richard Moser
2005-01-27 18:09         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-27 18:12         ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-27 18:16         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-27 18:28           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-27 18:55             ` John Richard Moser
2005-01-27 18:49           ` John Richard Moser
2005-01-27 19:30             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-27 19:48               ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-27 19:59                 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-27 20:04                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-27 20:08               ` John Richard Moser
2005-01-27 19:19           ` linux-os
2005-01-27 19:52             ` Julien TINNES
2005-01-27 20:02             ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-27 20:13               ` John Richard Moser
2005-01-27 21:33                 ` jnf
2005-01-28 17:22                 ` Paulo Marques
2005-01-28 17:51                   ` John Richard Moser
2005-01-28 18:42                   ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-29  6:04                     ` John Richard Moser
2005-01-27 20:37               ` linux-os
2005-01-27 20:45                 ` John Richard Moser
2005-01-27 21:39           ` John Richard Moser
2005-01-27 21:53             ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-27 22:34               ` John Richard Moser
2005-01-29  2:50                 ` Rik van Riel
2005-01-29  6:31                   ` John Richard Moser
2005-01-29  8:10                     ` Arjan van de Ven
     [not found]                       ` <41FBB821.3000403@comcast.net>
2005-01-29 16:42                         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-29 16:59                           ` John Richard Moser
2005-01-29 16:46                         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-29 17:04                           ` John Richard Moser
2005-01-29 17:37                     ` Jakub Jelinek
2005-01-29 17:49                       ` John Richard Moser
2005-01-29 17:55                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-29 18:10                           ` John Richard Moser
2005-01-29 18:12                             ` Rik van Riel
2005-01-29 18:16                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-29  7:46           ` John Richard Moser
2005-01-27 18:40         ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2005-01-27 22:31     ` Jirka Kosina
2005-01-28  5:58       ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-28 19:02         ` David Lang
2005-01-28  7:33       ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-27 19:43   ` Julien TINNES
2005-01-28  0:10     ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-28  0:23       ` Roland Dreier
2005-01-28  1:06         ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-28  2:03     ` Horst von Brand
2005-01-28  8:45       ` Julien TINNES
2005-01-27 20:23   ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-27 20:27     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-27 20:32       ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-27 20:35         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-27 20:40         ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2005-01-27 20:42           ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-27 20:56             ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-27 21:13               ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-27 10:13 ` Patch 5/6 randomize mmap addresses Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-27 10:14 ` Patch 6/6 default enable randomisation for -mm Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-27 11:45 ` Patch 0/6 virtual address space randomisation Julien TINNES
2005-01-27 11:57   ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-27 17:42     ` John Richard Moser
2005-01-27 19:34       ` Julien TINNES
2005-01-27 19:57         ` John Richard Moser
2005-01-27 20:13         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-28  8:45           ` David Weinehall
2005-01-31 10:55 Patch 4/6 randomize the stack pointer linux
2005-01-31 17:28 ` John Richard Moser

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