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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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acpi ACPI: processor: remove _PDC object list from struct acpi_processor 2009-12-22 03:35:16 -05:00
asm-generic fix up O_SYNC comments 2009-12-17 11:03:24 -05:00
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linux core, x86: make LIST_POISON less deadly 2010-01-11 09:45:37 -08:00
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rdma Merge branches 'amso1100', 'cma', 'cxgb3', 'ehca', 'ipath', 'ipoib', 'iser', 'misc', 'mlx4' and 'nes' into for-next 2009-12-15 23:39:25 -08:00
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