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| author | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2013-07-31 21:58:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-08-11 18:35:20 -0700 |
| commit | 75bc4446e0d553aceeb632ae05878786d6760e47 (patch) | |
| tree | b4ddcbc70fcadad7ccca9bca9f994b1619e9b0c0 /arch/arm/include | |
| parent | a5510daad56d3b9738d475957750db9d4fc607a9 (diff) | |
ARM: make vectors page inaccessible from userspace
commit a5463cd3435475386cbbe7b06e01292ac169d36f upstream.
If kuser helpers are not provided by the kernel, disable user access to
the vectors page. With the kuser helpers gone, there is no reason for
this page to be visible to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/include')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/include/asm/page.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/page.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/page.h index 812a4944e783..cbdc7a21f869 100644 --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/page.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/page.h @@ -142,7 +142,9 @@ extern void __cpu_copy_user_highpage(struct page *to, struct page *from, #define clear_page(page) memset((void *)(page), 0, PAGE_SIZE) extern void copy_page(void *to, const void *from); +#ifdef CONFIG_KUSER_HELPERS #define __HAVE_ARCH_GATE_AREA 1 +#endif #ifdef CONFIG_ARM_LPAE #include <asm/pgtable-3level-types.h> |