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Message-ID: <tip-1bdfac19b3ecfca545281c15c7aea7ebc2eaef31@git.kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 05:37:12 GMT
From: tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski <luto@....edu>
To: linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...hat.com,
luto@....edu, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...ux.intel.com, luto@....edu
Subject: [tip:x86/vdso] x86-64: Pad vDSO to a page boundary
Commit-ID: 1bdfac19b3ecfca545281c15c7aea7ebc2eaef31
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/1bdfac19b3ecfca545281c15c7aea7ebc2eaef31
Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@....EDU>
AuthorDate: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 09:31:49 -0400
Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
CommitDate: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 16:13:34 -0700
x86-64: Pad vDSO to a page boundary
This avoids an information leak to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@....edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a63380a3c58a0506a2f5a18ba1b12dbde1f25e58.1312378163.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
---
arch/x86/vdso/vdso.S | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso.S b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso.S
index 1b979c1..01f5e3b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso.S
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso.S
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ __PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA
vdso_start:
.incbin "arch/x86/vdso/vdso.so"
vdso_end:
+ .align PAGE_SIZE /* extra data here leaks to userspace. */
.previous
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