[PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 40/85] arm64: kconfig: Move LIST_POISON to a safe value

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Tue Oct 20 2015 - 18:41:52 EST


3.13.11-ckt28 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit bf0c4e04732479f650ff59d1ee82de761c0071f0 upstream.

Move the poison pointer offset to 0xdead000000000000, a
recognized value that is not mappable by user-space exploits.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Strudel <tstrudel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index bf0ed5d..239635b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ config NO_IOPORT
config STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
def_bool y

+config ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE
+ hex
+ default 0xdead000000000000
+
config LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
def_bool y

--
1.9.1

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