DivestOS/Patches/LineageOS-21.0/android_bionic/0002-Graphene_Bionic_Hardening-9.patch

From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 17:49:13 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] on 64-bit, zero the leading stack canary byte

This reduces entropy of the canary from 64-bit to 56-bit in exchange for
mitigating non-terminated C string overflows.

Signed-off-by: anupritaisno1 <www.anuprita804@gmail.com>
---
 libc/bionic/__libc_init_main_thread.cpp | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/libc/bionic/__libc_init_main_thread.cpp b/libc/bionic/__libc_init_main_thread.cpp
index a6ddc64d5..c03a8b79d 100644
--- a/libc/bionic/__libc_init_main_thread.cpp
+++ b/libc/bionic/__libc_init_main_thread.cpp
@@ -49,6 +49,12 @@ uintptr_t __stack_chk_guard[PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(uintptr_t)] = {0};
 
 static pthread_internal_t main_thread;
 
+#if __LP64__
+static const uintptr_t canary_mask = __BYTE_ORDER__ == __ORDER_LITTLE_ENDIAN__ ?
+  0xffffffffffffff00UL :
+  0x00ffffffffffffffUL;
+#endif
+
 // Setup for the main thread. For dynamic executables, this is called by the
 // linker _before_ libc is mapped in memory. This means that all writes to
 // globals from this function will apply to linker-private copies and will not
@@ -117,6 +123,10 @@ extern "C" void android_reset_stack_guards() {
   // before we initialize the TLS. Dynamic executables will initialize their copy of the global
   // stack protector from the one in the main thread's TLS.
   __libc_safe_arc4random_buf(&__stack_chk_guard[0], sizeof(__stack_chk_guard[0]));
+#if __LP64__
+  // Sacrifice 8 bits of entropy on 64-bit to mitigate non-terminated C string overflows
+  __stack_chk_guard[0] &= canary_mask;
+#endif
   if (mprotect(__stack_chk_guard, sizeof(__stack_chk_guard), PROT_READ) == -1) {
     async_safe_fatal("mprotect __stack_chk_guard: %s", strerror(errno));
   }