| Message ID | 1459346133-20777-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com |
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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 **********/ /*
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled include/linux/poison.h: fix LIST_POISON{1,2} offset to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt27. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Luis ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From eb99153be3ae70672c8074dc89ac8c01828840fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vasily Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 15:36:00 -0700 Subject: include/linux/poison.h: fix LIST_POISON{1,2} offset 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> --- include/linux/poison.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)