On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 5:33 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> This introduces canaries to struct timer_list in an effort to protect the
> function callback pointer from getting rewritten during stack or heap
> overflow attacks. The struct timer_list has become a recent target for
> security flaw exploitation
This introduces canaries to struct timer_list in an effort to protect the
function callback pointer from getting rewritten during stack or heap
overflow attacks. The struct timer_list has become a recent target for
security flaw exploitation because it includes the "data" argument in
the structure,
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