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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2020-05-28 07:58:12 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2020-05-28 07:58:12 +0200
commit0bffedbce90818228f554651baf8d7c75f2876d8 (patch)
tree96101208e0200c70c6688737ac6596bdd0ed2950 /arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h
parentc50c75e9b87946499a62bffc021e95c87a1d57cd (diff)
parent9cb1fd0efd195590b828b9b865421ad345a4a145 (diff)
Merge tag 'v5.7-rc7' into perf/core, to pick up fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h
index 91e29b6a86a5..9804a7957f4e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/stackprotector.h
@@ -55,8 +55,13 @@
/*
* Initialize the stackprotector canary value.
*
- * NOTE: this must only be called from functions that never return,
+ * NOTE: this must only be called from functions that never return
* and it must always be inlined.
+ *
+ * In addition, it should be called from a compilation unit for which
+ * stack protector is disabled. Alternatively, the caller should not end
+ * with a function call which gets tail-call optimized as that would
+ * lead to checking a modified canary value.
*/
static __always_inline void boot_init_stack_canary(void)
{