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From: Greg KH on 10 May 2010 19:30 2.6.32-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Avi Kivity <avi(a)qumranet.com> commit a29815a333c6c6e677294bbe5958e771d0aad3fd upstream. 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(a)linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput(a)gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi(a)redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds(a)linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh(a)suse.de> --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 5 +++++ include/linux/poison.h | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -1236,6 +1236,11 @@ 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 --- a/include/linux/poison.h +++ b/include/linux/poison.h @@ -2,13 +2,25 @@ #define _LINUX_POISON_H /********** include/linux/list.h **********/ + +/* + * Architectures might want to move the poison pointer offset + * into some well-recognized area such as 0xdead000000000000, + * that is also not mappable by user-space exploits: + */ +#ifdef CONFIG_ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE +# define POISON_POINTER_DELTA _AC(CONFIG_ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE, UL) +#else +# define POISON_POINTER_DELTA 0 +#endif + /* * These are non-NULL pointers that will result in page faults * under normal circumstances, used to verify that nobody uses * non-initialized list entries. */ -#define LIST_POISON1 ((void *) 0x00100100) -#define LIST_POISON2 ((void *) 0x00200200) +#define LIST_POISON1 ((void *) 0x00100100 + POISON_POINTER_DELTA) +#define LIST_POISON2 ((void *) 0x00200200 + POISON_POINTER_DELTA) /********** include/linux/timer.h **********/ /* -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |