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An unintended consequence of commit 9c573cd31343 ("randomize_kstack:
Improve entropy diffusion") was that the per-architecture entropy size
filtering reduced how many bits were being added to the mix, rather than
how many bits were being used during the offsetting. All architectures
fell back to the existing default of 0x3FF (10 bits), which will consume
at most 1KiB of stack space. It seems that this is working just fine,
so let's avoid the confusion and update everything to use the default.
The prior intent of the per-architecture limits were:
arm64: capped at 0x1FF (9 bits), 5 bits effective
powerpc: uncapped (10 bits), 6 or 7 bits effective
riscv: uncapped (10 bits), 6 bits effective
x86: capped at 0xFF (8 bits), 5 (x86_64) or 6 (ia32) bits effective
s390: capped at 0xFF (8 bits), undocumented effective entropy
Current discussion has led to just dropping the original per-architecture
filters. The additional entropy appears to be safe for arm64, x86,
and s390. Quoting Arnd, "There is no point pretending that 15.75KB is
somehow safe to use while 15.00KB is not."
Co-developed-by: Yuntao Liu <liuyuntao12@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuntao Liu <liuyuntao12@huawei.com>
Fixes: 9c573cd31343 ("randomize_kstack: Improve entropy diffusion")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240617133721.377540-1-liuyuntao12@huawei.com
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> # s390
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240619214711.work.953-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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