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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-02-26 09:18:32 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-02-26 09:18:32 +0100
commit64b9fb5704a479d98a59f2a1d45d3331a8f847f8 (patch)
tree2b1052b05fa7615c817894bc9802bc5bb2af7ac1 /include/linux/poison.h
parent83f0d53993b2967e54186468b0fc4321447f68f1 (diff)
parent60b341b778cc2929df16c0a504c91621b3c6a4ad (diff)
Merge commit 'v2.6.33' into tracing/core
Conflicts: scripts/recordmcount.pl Merge reason: Merge up to v2.6.33. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/poison.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/poison.h16
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/poison.h b/include/linux/poison.h
index 7fc194aef8c2..2110a81c5e2a 100644
--- a/include/linux/poison.h
+++ b/include/linux/poison.h
@@ -2,13 +2,25 @@
#define _LINUX_POISON_H
/********** include/linux/list.h **********/
+
+/*
+ * Architectures might want to move the poison pointer offset
+ * into some well-recognized area such as 0xdead000000000000,
+ * that is also not mappable by user-space exploits:
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE
+# define POISON_POINTER_DELTA _AC(CONFIG_ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE, UL)
+#else
+# define POISON_POINTER_DELTA 0
+#endif
+
/*
* These are non-NULL pointers that will result in page faults
* under normal circumstances, used to verify that nobody uses
* non-initialized list entries.
*/
-#define LIST_POISON1 ((void *) 0x00100100)
-#define LIST_POISON2 ((void *) 0x00200200)
+#define LIST_POISON1 ((void *) 0x00100100 + POISON_POINTER_DELTA)
+#define LIST_POISON2 ((void *) 0x00200200 + POISON_POINTER_DELTA)
/********** include/linux/timer.h **********/
/*