diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 91be74d8df65..6142e83b45da 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -1810,6 +1810,22 @@ config XEN
 	help
 	  Say Y if you want to run Linux in a Virtual Machine on Xen on ARM.
 
+config STACKPROTECTOR_PER_TASK
+	bool "Use a unique stack canary value for each task"
+	depends on GCC_PLUGINS && STACKPROTECTOR && SMP && !XIP_DEFLATED_DATA
+	select GCC_PLUGIN_ARM_SSP_PER_TASK
+	help
+	  Due to the fact that GCC uses an ordinary symbol reference from
+	  which to load the value of the stack canary, this value can only
+	  change at reboot time on SMP systems, and all tasks running in the
+	  kernel's address space are forced to use the same canary value for
+	  the entire duration that the system is up.
+
+	  Enable this option to switch to a different method that uses a
+	  different canary value for each task.
+
+	  This is not enabled by default since it relies on a GCC plugin.
+
 endmenu
 
 menu "Boot options"
diff --git a/arch/arm/Makefile b/arch/arm/Makefile
index 05a91d8b89f3..50860ee3e771 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/Makefile
@@ -303,6 +303,17 @@ else
 KBUILD_IMAGE := $(boot)/zImage
 endif
 
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_PER_TASK),y)
+prepare: stack_protector_prepare
+stack_protector_prepare: prepare0
+	$(eval KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fplugin-arg-arm_ssp_per_task_plugin-tso=$(shell\
+			awk '{if ($$2 == "THREAD_SZ_ORDER") print $$3;}'	\
+				include/generated/asm-offsets.h)		\
+		-fplugin-arg-arm_ssp_per_task_plugin-offset=$(shell		\
+			awk '{if ($$2 == "TSK_STACK_CANARY") print $$3;}'	\
+				include/generated/asm-offsets.h))
+endif
+
 all:	$(notdir $(KBUILD_IMAGE))
 
 
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
index 1f5a5ffe7fcf..01bf2585a0fa 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ clean-files += piggy_data lib1funcs.S ashldi3.S bswapsdi2.S \
 		$(libfdt) $(libfdt_hdrs) hyp-stub.S
 
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(DISABLE_ARM_SSP_PER_TASK_PLUGIN)
 
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER),y)
 ORIG_CFLAGS := $(KBUILD_CFLAGS)
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/stackprotector.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/stackprotector.h
index ef5f7b69443e..72a20c3a0a90 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/stackprotector.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/stackprotector.h
@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@
  * the stack frame and verifying that it hasn't been overwritten when
  * returning from the function.  The pattern is called stack canary
  * and gcc expects it to be defined by a global variable called
- * "__stack_chk_guard" on ARM.  This unfortunately means that on SMP
- * we cannot have a different canary value per task.
+ * "__stack_chk_guard" on ARM.  This prevents SMP systems from using a
+ * different value for each task unless we enable a GCC plugin that
+ * replaces these symbol references with references to each task's own
+ * value.
  */
 
 #ifndef _ASM_STACKPROTECTOR_H
@@ -16,6 +18,8 @@
 #include <linux/random.h>
 #include <linux/version.h>
 
+#include <asm/thread_info.h>
+
 extern unsigned long __stack_chk_guard;
 
 /*
@@ -33,7 +37,11 @@ static __always_inline void boot_init_stack_canary(void)
 	canary ^= LINUX_VERSION_CODE;
 
 	current->stack_canary = canary;
+#ifndef CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_PER_TASK
 	__stack_chk_guard = current->stack_canary;
+#else
+	current_thread_info()->stack_canary = current->stack_canary;
+#endif
 }
 
 #endif	/* _ASM_STACKPROTECTOR_H */
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
index 8f55dc520a3e..bd661c7681b1 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ struct thread_info {
 	__u32			syscall;	/* syscall number */
 	__u8			used_cp[16];	/* thread used copro */
 	unsigned long		tp_value[2];	/* TLS registers */
+#ifdef CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_PER_TASK
+	unsigned long		stack_canary;
+#endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_CRUNCH
 	struct crunch_state	crunchstate;
 #endif
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c b/arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c
index 3968d6c22455..2e82926645b3 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ int main(void)
   DEFINE(TSK_ACTIVE_MM,		offsetof(struct task_struct, active_mm));
 #ifdef CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR
   DEFINE(TSK_STACK_CANARY,	offsetof(struct task_struct, stack_canary));
+  DEFINE(THREAD_SZ_ORDER,	THREAD_SIZE_ORDER);
 #endif
   BLANK();
   DEFINE(TI_FLAGS,		offsetof(struct thread_info, flags));
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
index 82ab015bf42b..16601d1442d1 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 #include <asm/tls.h>
 #include <asm/vdso.h>
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR
+#if defined(CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR) && !defined(CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_PER_TASK)
 #include <linux/stackprotector.h>
 unsigned long __stack_chk_guard __read_mostly;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__stack_chk_guard);
@@ -267,6 +267,10 @@ copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long stack_start,
 
 	thread_notify(THREAD_NOTIFY_COPY, thread);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_PER_TASK
+	thread->stack_canary = p->stack_canary;
+#endif
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins b/scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins
index 46c5c6809806..048179d8c07f 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins
@@ -36,6 +36,12 @@ ifdef CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK
 endif
 export DISABLE_STACKLEAK_PLUGIN
 
+gcc-plugin-$(CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_ARM_SSP_PER_TASK) += arm_ssp_per_task_plugin.so
+ifdef CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_ARM_SSP_PER_TASK
+    DISABLE_ARM_SSP_PER_TASK_PLUGIN += -fplugin-arg-arm_ssp_per_task_plugin-disable
+endif
+export DISABLE_ARM_SSP_PER_TASK_PLUGIN
+
 # All the plugin CFLAGS are collected here in case a build target needs to
 # filter them out of the KBUILD_CFLAGS.
 GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS := $(strip $(addprefix -fplugin=$(objtree)/scripts/gcc-plugins/, $(gcc-plugin-y)) $(gcc-plugin-cflags-y))
diff --git a/scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig b/scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig
index 0d5c799688f0..d45f7f36b859 100644
--- a/scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig
+++ b/scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig
@@ -190,4 +190,8 @@ config STACKLEAK_RUNTIME_DISABLE
 	  runtime to control kernel stack erasing for kernels built with
 	  CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK.
 
+config GCC_PLUGIN_ARM_SSP_PER_TASK
+	bool
+	depends on GCC_PLUGINS && ARM
+
 endif
diff --git a/scripts/gcc-plugins/arm_ssp_per_task_plugin.c b/scripts/gcc-plugins/arm_ssp_per_task_plugin.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..de70b8470971
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/gcc-plugins/arm_ssp_per_task_plugin.c
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+#include "gcc-common.h"
+
+__visible int plugin_is_GPL_compatible;
+
+static unsigned int sp_mask, canary_offset;
+
+static unsigned int arm_pertask_ssp_rtl_execute(void)
+{
+	rtx_insn *insn;
+
+	for (insn = get_insns(); insn; insn = NEXT_INSN(insn)) {
+		const char *sym;
+		rtx body;
+		rtx masked_sp;
+
+		/*
+		 * Find a SET insn involving a SYMBOL_REF to __stack_chk_guard
+		 */
+		if (!INSN_P(insn))
+			continue;
+		body = PATTERN(insn);
+		if (GET_CODE(body) != SET ||
+		    GET_CODE(SET_SRC(body)) != SYMBOL_REF)
+			continue;
+		sym = XSTR(SET_SRC(body), 0);
+		if (strcmp(sym, "__stack_chk_guard"))
+			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * Replace the source of the SET insn with an expression that
+		 * produces the address of the copy of the stack canary value
+		 * stored in struct thread_info
+		 */
+		masked_sp = gen_reg_rtx(Pmode);
+
+		emit_insn_before(gen_rtx_SET(masked_sp,
+					     gen_rtx_AND(Pmode,
+							 stack_pointer_rtx,
+							 GEN_INT(sp_mask))),
+				 insn);
+
+		SET_SRC(body) = gen_rtx_PLUS(Pmode, masked_sp,
+					     GEN_INT(canary_offset));
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+#define PASS_NAME arm_pertask_ssp_rtl
+
+#define NO_GATE
+#include "gcc-generate-rtl-pass.h"
+
+__visible int plugin_init(struct plugin_name_args *plugin_info,
+			  struct plugin_gcc_version *version)
+{
+	const char * const plugin_name = plugin_info->base_name;
+	const int argc = plugin_info->argc;
+	const struct plugin_argument *argv = plugin_info->argv;
+	int tso = 0;
+	int i;
+
+	if (!plugin_default_version_check(version, &gcc_version)) {
+		error(G_("incompatible gcc/plugin versions"));
+		return 1;
+	}
+
+	for (i = 0; i < argc; ++i) {
+		if (!strcmp(argv[i].key, "disable"))
+			return 0;
+
+		/* all remaining options require a value */
+		if (!argv[i].value) {
+			error(G_("no value supplied for option '-fplugin-arg-%s-%s'"),
+			      plugin_name, argv[i].key);
+			return 1;
+		}
+
+		if (!strcmp(argv[i].key, "tso")) {
+			tso = atoi(argv[i].value);
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		if (!strcmp(argv[i].key, "offset")) {
+			canary_offset = atoi(argv[i].value);
+			continue;
+		}
+		error(G_("unknown option '-fplugin-arg-%s-%s'"),
+		      plugin_name, argv[i].key);
+		return 1;
+	}
+
+	/* create the mask that produces the base of the stack */
+	sp_mask = ~((1U << (12 + tso)) - 1);
+
+	PASS_INFO(arm_pertask_ssp_rtl, "expand", 1, PASS_POS_INSERT_AFTER);
+
+	register_callback(plugin_info->base_name, PLUGIN_PASS_MANAGER_SETUP,
+			  NULL, &arm_pertask_ssp_rtl_pass_info);
+
+	return 0;
+}
