[PATCH v5 0/2] Fix bugs and performance of kstack offset randomisation
Kees Cook
kees at kernel.org
Wed Mar 25 15:14:20 AEDT 2026
On Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:08:37 +0000, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> [Kees; I'm hoping this is now good-to-go via your hardening tree? It would be
> good to get some linux-next testing.]
>
> Hi All,
>
> As I reported at [1], kstack offset randomisation suffers from a couple of bugs
> and, on arm64 at least, the performance is poor. This series attempts to fix
> both; patch 1 provides back-portable fixes for the functional bugs. Patch 2
> proposes a performance improvement approach.
>
> [...]
Sorry for the delay! Applied to for-next/hardening, thanks. :)
[1/2] randomize_kstack: Maintain kstack_offset per task
https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/37beb4256016
[2/2] randomize_kstack: Unify random source across arches
https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/a96ef5848cb0
Take care,
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Kees Cook
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