When building the stack guard, it has been traditionally important to have the
value start (in memory) with a zero byte to protect the guard value (and the
rest of the stack past it) from being read via strcpy, etc.

This patch reduces the number of random bytes by one, leaving the leading zero byte.

------- Additional Comment #1 From Kees Cook 2009-05-12 18:05 -------

Created an attachment (id=3933)
keep leading zero

------- Additional Comment #2 From Kees Cook 2009-05-14 21:48 -------

I should clarify -- the read-blocking is nice, but the more common reason the
leading zero is important is to avoid the guard being written as part of a
larger overflow being written out by a str* function, if its value were leaked
to an attacker in some other way.