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[3.16.y-ckt,06/17] include/linux/poison.h: fix LIST_POISON{1, 2} offset

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Luis Henriques April 12, 2016, 6:07 p.m. UTC 
3.16.7-ckt27 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Vasily Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>

commit 8a5e5e02fc83aaf67053ab53b359af08c6c49aaf upstream.

Poison pointer values should be small enough to find a room in
non-mmap'able/hardly-mmap'able space.  E.g.  on x86 "poison pointer space"
is located starting from 0x0.  Given unprivileged users cannot mmap
anything below mmap_min_addr, it should be safe to use poison pointers
lower than mmap_min_addr.

The current poison pointer values of LIST_POISON{1,2} might be too big for
mmap_min_addr values equal or less than 1 MB (common case, e.g.  Ubuntu
uses only 0x10000).  There is little point to use such a big value given
the "poison pointer space" below 1 MB is not yet exhausted.  Changing it
to a smaller value solves the problem for small mmap_min_addr setups.

The values are suggested by Solar Designer:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/02/6

Signed-off-by: Vasily Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
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 include/linux/poison.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/include/linux/poison.h b/include/linux/poison.h
index 2110a81c5e2a..253c9b4198ef 100644
--- a/include/linux/poison.h
+++ b/include/linux/poison.h
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ 
  * under normal circumstances, used to verify that nobody uses
  * non-initialized list entries.
  */
-#define LIST_POISON1  ((void *) 0x00100100 + POISON_POINTER_DELTA)
-#define LIST_POISON2  ((void *) 0x00200200 + POISON_POINTER_DELTA)
+#define LIST_POISON1  ((void *) 0x100 + POISON_POINTER_DELTA)
+#define LIST_POISON2  ((void *) 0x200 + POISON_POINTER_DELTA)
 
 /********** include/linux/timer.h **********/
 /*