linux/arch
Avi Kivity a29815a333 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>
2010-01-11 09:45:37 -08:00
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alpha alpha: Convert BUG() to use unreachable() 2009-12-18 01:14:52 -05:00
arm Merge branch 'omap-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6 2010-01-11 09:44:19 -08:00
avr32 Merge branch 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild 2009-12-17 07:23:42 -08:00
blackfin blackfin,kgdb: Do not put PC in gdb_regs into retx. 2010-01-07 11:58:37 -06:00
cris Merge branch 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild 2009-12-17 07:23:42 -08:00
frv FDPIC: Respect PT_GNU_STACK exec protection markings when creating NOMMU stack 2010-01-06 18:16:02 -08:00
h8300 Merge branch 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild 2009-12-17 07:23:42 -08:00
ia64 [IA64] move fnptr definition inside #ifdef __KERNEL__ 2010-01-08 10:53:28 -08:00
m32r elf: kill USE_ELF_CORE_DUMP 2009-12-16 07:20:12 -08:00
m68k Merge branch 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild 2009-12-17 07:23:42 -08:00
m68knommu Unify sys_mmap* 2009-12-11 06:44:29 -05:00
microblaze Merge branch 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild 2009-12-17 07:23:42 -08:00
mips mm: make totalhigh_pages unsigned long 2010-01-11 09:34:03 -08:00
mn10300 mn10300: update the ASB2303 defconfig 2010-01-11 09:34:10 -08:00
parisc Merge branch 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild 2009-12-17 07:23:42 -08:00
powerpc zlib: optimize inffast when copying direct from output 2010-01-11 09:34:04 -08:00
s390 [S390] Update default configuration. 2010-01-04 09:05:58 +01:00
score mm: make totalhigh_pages unsigned long 2010-01-11 09:34:03 -08:00
sh sh: update defconfigs. 2010-01-04 15:38:50 +09:00
sparc sparc64: Fix Niagara2 perf event handling. 2010-01-04 23:16:03 -08:00
um Merge branch 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild 2009-12-17 07:23:42 -08:00
x86 core, x86: make LIST_POISON less deadly 2010-01-11 09:45:37 -08:00
xtensa Merge branch 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild 2009-12-17 07:23:42 -08:00
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Kconfig hw-breakpoints: Fix hardware breakpoints -> perf events dependency 2009-12-18 13:11:51 +01:00