diff --git a/arch/sh/Kconfig b/arch/sh/Kconfig
index ff9e033ce62..60ed3669979 100644
--- a/arch/sh/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/sh/Kconfig
@@ -685,6 +685,20 @@ config SECCOMP
 
 	  If unsure, say N.
 
+config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
+	bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+	depends on SUPERH32 && EXPERIMENTAL
+	help
+	  This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This
+	  feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
+	  the stack just before the return address, and validates
+	  the value just before actually returning.  Stack based buffer
+	  overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
+	  overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
+	  neutralized via a kernel panic.
+
+	  This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above.
+
 config SMP
 	bool "Symmetric multi-processing support"
 	depends on SYS_SUPPORTS_SMP
diff --git a/arch/sh/Makefile b/arch/sh/Makefile
index 3fc0f413777..24875c8c151 100644
--- a/arch/sh/Makefile
+++ b/arch/sh/Makefile
@@ -199,6 +199,10 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_DWARF_UNWINDER),y)
   KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fasynchronous-unwind-tables
 endif
 
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR),y)
+  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fstack-protector
+endif
+
 libs-$(CONFIG_SUPERH32)		:= arch/sh/lib/	$(libs-y)
 libs-$(CONFIG_SUPERH64)		:= arch/sh/lib64/ $(libs-y)
 
diff --git a/arch/sh/include/asm/stackprotector.h b/arch/sh/include/asm/stackprotector.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d9df3a76847
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/sh/include/asm/stackprotector.h
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#ifndef __ASM_SH_STACKPROTECTOR_H
+#define __ASM_SH_STACKPROTECTOR_H
+
+#include <linux/random.h>
+#include <linux/version.h>
+
+extern unsigned long __stack_chk_guard;
+
+/*
+ * Initialize the stackprotector canary value.
+ *
+ * NOTE: this must only be called from functions that never return,
+ * and it must always be inlined.
+ */
+static __always_inline void boot_init_stack_canary(void)
+{
+	unsigned long canary;
+
+	/* Try to get a semi random initial value. */
+	get_random_bytes(&canary, sizeof(canary));
+	canary ^= LINUX_VERSION_CODE;
+
+	current->stack_canary = canary;
+	__stack_chk_guard = current->stack_canary;
+}
+
+#endif /* __ASM_SH_STACKPROTECTOR_H */
diff --git a/arch/sh/kernel/process.c b/arch/sh/kernel/process.c
index 325f98b1736..f3f03e4c785 100644
--- a/arch/sh/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/sh/kernel/process.c
@@ -2,10 +2,17 @@
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/export.h>
+#include <linux/stackprotector.h>
 
 struct kmem_cache *task_xstate_cachep = NULL;
 unsigned int xstate_size;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
+unsigned long __stack_chk_guard __read_mostly;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__stack_chk_guard);
+#endif
+
 int arch_dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *dst, struct task_struct *src)
 {
 	*dst = *src;
diff --git a/arch/sh/kernel/process_32.c b/arch/sh/kernel/process_32.c
index 94273aaf78c..f78cc421e66 100644
--- a/arch/sh/kernel/process_32.c
+++ b/arch/sh/kernel/process_32.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include <linux/ftrace.h>
 #include <linux/hw_breakpoint.h>
 #include <linux/prefetch.h>
+#include <linux/stackprotector.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
 #include <asm/fpu.h>
@@ -220,6 +221,10 @@ __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev, struct task_struct *next)
 {
 	struct thread_struct *next_t = &next->thread;
 
+#if defined(CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR) && !defined(CONFIG_SMP)
+	__stack_chk_guard = next->stack_canary;
+#endif
+
 	unlazy_fpu(prev, task_pt_regs(prev));
 
 	/* we're going to use this soon, after a few expensive things */