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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> |
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