diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 5ee3dbeab3234cf72644baa14eba227c86992aa6..cfc0688a25e93d5603e5d65e873bb9f0c83d15df 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ config PPC
 	select HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
 	select HAVE_ARCH_HARDENED_USERCOPY
 	select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
+	select HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
 
 config GENERIC_CSUM
 	def_bool CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/stackprotector.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/stackprotector.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6720190eabecd9f9019d61925df09f262377eb79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/stackprotector.h
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+/*
+ * GCC stack protector support.
+ *
+ * Stack protector works by putting predefined pattern at the start of
+ * 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 PPC.  This unfortunately means that on SMP
+ * we cannot have a different canary value per task.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _ASM_STACKPROTECTOR_H
+#define _ASM_STACKPROTECTOR_H
+
+#include <linux/random.h>
+#include <linux/version.h>
+#include <asm/reg.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 ^= mftb();
+	canary ^= LINUX_VERSION_CODE;
+
+	current->stack_canary = canary;
+	__stack_chk_guard = current->stack_canary;
+}
+
+#endif	/* _ASM_STACKPROTECTOR_H */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
index 26b5a5e02e69c42572b25d689c7281c775066916..7a9f7164cc2e5c98640bdd89ef52977612867319 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ CFLAGS_init.o += $(DISABLE_LATENT_ENTROPY_PLUGIN)
 CFLAGS_btext.o += $(DISABLE_LATENT_ENTROPY_PLUGIN)
 CFLAGS_prom.o += $(DISABLE_LATENT_ENTROPY_PLUGIN)
 
+# -fstack-protector triggers protection checks in this code,
+# but it is being used too early to link to meaningful stack_chk logic.
+CFLAGS_prom_init.o += $(call cc-option, -fno-stack-protector)
+
 ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
 # Do not trace early boot code
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_cputable.o = -mno-sched-epilog $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index 5b62e8c36210a3b55f19547aebf0a294c493f0e9..9da9a42595ceb42eb7cd069edd868b796ea21e59 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -64,6 +64,12 @@
 #include <linux/kprobes.h>
 #include <linux/kdebug.h>
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
+#include <linux/stackprotector.h>
+unsigned long __stack_chk_guard __read_mostly;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__stack_chk_guard);
+#endif
+
 /* Transactional Memory debug */
 #ifdef TM_DEBUG_SW
 #define TM_DEBUG(x...) printk(KERN_INFO x)