Patch "stackprotector: Increase the per-task stack canary's random range from 32 bits to 64 bits on 64-bit platforms" has been added to the 4.11-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

stackprotector: Increase the per-task stack canary's random range from 32 bits to 64 bits on 64-bit platforms

to the 4.11-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
stackprotector-increase-the-per-task-stack-canary-s-random-range-from-32-bits-to-64-bits-on-64-bit-platforms.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Daniel Micay <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 09:32:09 -0400
Subject: stackprotector: Increase the per-task stack canary's random range from 32 bits to 64 bits on 64-bit platforms

From: Daniel Micay <[email protected]>

commit 5ea30e4e58040cfd6434c2f33dc3ea76e2c15b05 upstream.

The stack canary is an 'unsigned long' and should be fully initialized to random data rather than only 32 bits of random data.

---
 kernel/fork.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_stru
 	set_task_stack_end_magic(tsk);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
-	tsk->stack_canary = get_random_int();
+	tsk->stack_canary = get_random_long();
 #endif
 
 	/*

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.11/stackprotector-increase-the-per-task-stack-canary-s-random-range-from-32-bits-to-64-bits-on-64-bit-platforms.patch