Re: Patch 4/6 randomize the stack pointer

[Rik van Riel]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> > +unsigned long arch_align_stack(unsigned long sp)
> > +{
> > +	if (randomize_va_space)
> > +		sp -= ((get_random_int() % 4096) << 4);
> > +	return sp & ~0xf;
> > +}
>
> this looks like it'd work nicely on all architectures.

I guess it should work for all architectures using ELF,
not sure if it might break some of the more obscure
architectures ...

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