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| author | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2016-06-08 09:26:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2016-06-08 09:26:46 +0200 |
| commit | 616d1c1b98ac79f30216a57a170dd7cea19b3df3 (patch) | |
| tree | 6f244c2e5a7160190e73bc82b4cd7fa7bb22ee31 /arch/x86/mm/fault.c | |
| parent | a4f144ebbdf6f7807c477bce8e136047ed27321f (diff) | |
| parent | c8ae067f2635be0f8c7e5db1bb74b757d623e05b (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to refresh the branch
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/fault.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c index 5ce1ed02f7e8..7d1fa7cd2374 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c @@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ void vmalloc_sync_all(void) return; for (address = VMALLOC_START & PMD_MASK; - address >= TASK_SIZE && address < FIXADDR_TOP; + address >= TASK_SIZE_MAX && address < FIXADDR_TOP; address += PMD_SIZE) { struct page *page; @@ -854,8 +854,13 @@ __bad_area_nosemaphore(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code, return; } #endif - /* Kernel addresses are always protection faults: */ - if (address >= TASK_SIZE) + + /* + * To avoid leaking information about the kernel page table + * layout, pretend that user-mode accesses to kernel addresses + * are always protection faults. + */ + if (address >= TASK_SIZE_MAX) error_code |= PF_PROT; if (likely(show_unhandled_signals)) |