Patch "Revert "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 3.18-stable tree

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

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

to the 3.18-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:
revert-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-3.18 subdirectory.

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

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 12:09:37 +0200
Subject: Revert "stackprotector: Increase the per-task stack canary's random range from 32 bits to 64 bits on 64-bit platforms"

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

This reverts commit 609a3e81550b0b4ea87197b0f59455a7bcff975a which is commit 5ea30e4e58040cfd6434c2f33dc3ea76e2c15b05 upstream.

It shouldn't have been backported to 3.18, as we do not have get_random_long() in that kernel tree.

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

@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_stru
 	set_task_stack_end_magic(tsk);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
-	tsk->stack_canary = get_random_long();
+	tsk->stack_canary = get_random_int();
 #endif
 
 	/*

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

queue-3.18/revert-stackprotector-increase-the-per-task-stack-canary-s-random-range-from-32-bits-to-64-bits-on-64-bit-platforms.patch