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authorAndy Lutomirski <[email protected]>2011-06-05 13:50:23 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2011-06-06 09:43:14 +0200
commit5dfcea629a08b4684a019cd0cb59d0c9129a6c02 (patch)
tree0f8c7ae0db1cc4d7bf75dc7dd5612de7c741145c
parentbb5fe2f78eadf5a52d8dcbf9a57728fd107af97b (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 <[email protected]> Cc: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> Cc: Jan Beulich <[email protected]> Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <[email protected]> Cc: Mikael Pettersson <[email protected]> Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]> Cc: Louis Rilling <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ed54bfcfbe50a9070d20ec1edbe0d149e22a4568.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S16
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
__vsyscall_0 = .;
. = VSYSCALL_ADDR;
- .vsyscall_0 : AT(VLOAD(.vsyscall_0)) {
+ .vsyscall : AT(VLOAD(.vsyscall)) {
*(.vsyscall_0)
- } :user
- . = ALIGN(L1_CACHE_BYTES);
- .vsyscall_fn : AT(VLOAD(.vsyscall_fn)) {
+ . = ALIGN(L1_CACHE_BYTES);
*(.vsyscall_fn)
- }
- .vsyscall_1 ADDR(.vsyscall_0) + 1024: AT(VLOAD(.vsyscall_1)) {
+ . = 1024;
*(.vsyscall_1)
- }
- .vsyscall_2 ADDR(.vsyscall_0) + 2048: AT(VLOAD(.vsyscall_2)) {
+
+ . = 2048;
*(.vsyscall_2)
- }
+ . = 4096; /* Pad the whole page. */
+ } :user =0xcc
. = ALIGN(__vsyscall_0 + PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE);
#undef VSYSCALL_ADDR