On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 09:12:57AM -0700, David Daney wrote: > On 08/30/2010 08:36 PM, Adam Jiang wrote: > >On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:43:44AM -0700, David Daney wrote: > >>On 08/30/2010 09:46 AM, Richard Henderson wrote: > >>>On 08/30/2010 03:45 AM, Adam Jiang wrote: > >>>>When I read the source in Linux kerne, it was said that stack canary for > >>>>implementing stack protector is defined as an offset to %gs on x86 > >>>>architecture. How about stack canary defined on MIPS? > >>> > >>>It's not implemented for MIPS. > >>> > >>> > >> > >>For the Linux kernel, the MIPS stack canary would be a constant > >>offset (that depends on PAGE_SIZE) from register $28. > >> > >>David Daney > > > >Thanks, David and Richard. > > > >Is there code, doc or anything on this topic I can refer to? Is it > >defined in gcc internally or in kernel source itself? Would you please > >redirect me to the right place? > > > > I am unaware of any documents. The MIPS Linux kernel ABI is not > really documented anywhere, one learns it by studying and hacking on > the source code. > > 32-bit kernels use a variant of the o32 ABI, 64-bit kernels use a > variant of n64. Both dedicate register $28 as a pointer to the > thread area of which the stack is a part. > > The form any stack canary for the MIPS Linux kernel will be > determined by whomever implements it. > > >I have done some research by googling. Here are what I've gotten. > > > >http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/main.html > >http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/ > >http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.35/arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h > > > >However, it seems there is no documents about how this is done on MIPS. > >Do I miss something? > > > > At RTH said, "It's not implemented for MIPS.", so there was really > nothing to miss.
I found this. http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-04/msg02164.html However, my toolchain which I downloaded from CodeSourcery complained -fstack-protector was not supported when I tried this out. So, my question is what's the meaning by "It's not implemented for MIPS". Linaro added stack protector in Linux kernel about two month ago. This patch has been pulled into a new release. Does this mean there is only one step left on Linux Kernel side to get support SSP on MIPS? /Adam > > David Daney
