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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h index 8ec97a62c245..7bc85841fc56 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ */ static __always_inline void boot_init_stack_canary(void) { - u64 canary; + u64 uninitialized_var(canary); u64 tsc; #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 @@ -71,8 +71,14 @@ static __always_inline void boot_init_stack_canary(void) * 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. + * For preempt-rt we need to weaken the randomness a bit, as + * we can't call into the random generator from atomic context + * due to locking constraints. We just leave canary + * uninitialized and use the TSC based randomness on top of it. */ +#ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL get_random_bytes(&canary, sizeof(canary)); +#endif tsc = rdtsc(); canary += tsc + (tsc << 32UL); canary &= CANARY_MASK; |