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author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@MIT.EDU> | 2011-06-05 13:50:23 -0400 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2011-06-06 03:43:14 -0400 |
commit | 5dfcea629a08b4684a019cd0cb59d0c9129a6c02 (patch) | |
tree | 0f8c7ae0db1cc4d7bf75dc7dd5612de7c741145c /arch | |
parent | bb5fe2f78eadf5a52d8dcbf9a57728fd107af97b (diff) |
x86-64: Fill unused parts of the vsyscall page with 0xcc
Jumping to 0x00 might do something depending on the following
bytes. Jumping to 0xcc is a trap. So fill the unused parts of
the vsyscall page with 0xcc to make it useless for exploits to
jump there.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ed54bfcfbe50a9070d20ec1edbe0d149e22a4568.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 16 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 4f90082fd640..80174719910c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | |||
@@ -166,22 +166,20 @@ SECTIONS | |||
166 | __vsyscall_0 = .; | 166 | __vsyscall_0 = .; |
167 | 167 | ||
168 | . = VSYSCALL_ADDR; | 168 | . = VSYSCALL_ADDR; |
169 | .vsyscall_0 : AT(VLOAD(.vsyscall_0)) { | 169 | .vsyscall : AT(VLOAD(.vsyscall)) { |
170 | *(.vsyscall_0) | 170 | *(.vsyscall_0) |
171 | } :user | ||
172 | 171 | ||
173 | . = ALIGN(L1_CACHE_BYTES); | 172 | . = ALIGN(L1_CACHE_BYTES); |
174 | .vsyscall_fn : AT(VLOAD(.vsyscall_fn)) { | ||
175 | *(.vsyscall_fn) | 173 | *(.vsyscall_fn) |
176 | } | ||
177 | 174 | ||
178 | .vsyscall_1 ADDR(.vsyscall_0) + 1024: AT(VLOAD(.vsyscall_1)) { | 175 | . = 1024; |
179 | *(.vsyscall_1) | 176 | *(.vsyscall_1) |
180 | } | 177 | |
181 | .vsyscall_2 ADDR(.vsyscall_0) + 2048: AT(VLOAD(.vsyscall_2)) { | 178 | . = 2048; |
182 | *(.vsyscall_2) | 179 | *(.vsyscall_2) |
183 | } | ||
184 | 180 | ||
181 | . = 4096; /* Pad the whole page. */ | ||
182 | } :user =0xcc | ||
185 | . = ALIGN(__vsyscall_0 + PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE); | 183 | . = ALIGN(__vsyscall_0 + PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE); |
186 | 184 | ||
187 | #undef VSYSCALL_ADDR | 185 | #undef VSYSCALL_ADDR |