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[3.19.y-ckt,062/156] arm64: kconfig: Move LIST_POISON to a safe value

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Kamal Mostafa Oct. 20, 2015, 9:36 p.m. UTC 
3.19.8-ckt8 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com>

commit bf0c4e04732479f650ff59d1ee82de761c0071f0 upstream.

Move the poison pointer offset to 0xdead000000000000, a
recognized value that is not mappable by user-space exploits.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Strudel <tstrudel@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
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 arch/arm64/Kconfig | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 840c232..5fee0bd 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -97,6 +97,10 @@  config NO_IOPORT_MAP
 config STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
 	def_bool y
 
+config ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE
+	hex
+	default 0xdead000000000000
+
 config LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
 	def_bool y