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Commit5416c26635("x86: make sure load_percpu_segment has no stackprotector") disabled the stackprotector for cpu/common.c because of load_percpu_segment(). Back then the boot stack canary was initialized very early in start_kernel(). Switching the per CPU area by loading the GDT caused the stackprotector to fail with paravirt enabled kernels as the GSBASE was not updated yet. In hindsight a wrong change because it would have been sufficient to ensure that the canary is the same in both per CPU areas. Commitd55535232c("random: move rand_initialize() earlier") moved the stack canary initialization to a later point in the init sequence. As a consequence the per CPU stack canary is 0 when switching the per CPU areas, so there is no requirement anymore to exclude this file. Add a comment to load_percpu_segment(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220915111143.303010511@infradead.org
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.