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authorAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>2010-01-10 14:28:09 (GMT)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-01-11 17:45:37 (GMT)
commita29815a333c6c6e677294bbe5958e771d0aad3fd (patch)
tree589a782f1992a7da55469379688deaa9f355b779 /arch
parentc0f607c608ba889db5250235ba620f818aa44a4d (diff)
downloadlinux-a29815a333c6c6e677294bbe5958e771d0aad3fd.tar.xz
core, x86: make LIST_POISON less deadly
The list macros use LIST_POISON1 and LIST_POISON2 as undereferencable pointers in order to trap erronous use of freed list_heads. Unfortunately userspace can arrange for those pointers to actually be dereferencable, potentially turning an oops to an expolit. To avoid this allow architectures (currently x86_64 only) to override the default values for these pointers with truly-undereferencable values. This is easy on x86_64 as the virtual address space is large and contains areas that cannot be mapped. Other 64-bit architectures will likely find similar unmapped ranges. [ingo: switch to 0xdead000000000000 as the unmapped area] [ingo: add comments, cleanup] [jaswinder: eliminate sparse warnings] Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 6bf1f1a..cbcbfde 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -1247,6 +1247,11 @@ config ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE
def_bool X86_64
depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
+config ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE
+ hex
+ default 0 if X86_32
+ default 0xdead000000000000 if X86_64
+
source "mm/Kconfig"
config HIGHPTE