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authorRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2013-07-04 11:40:32 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2013-07-31 21:31:36 +0100
commit19accfd373847ac3d10623c5d20f948846299741 (patch)
tree682dd44ea1710afbb7e61a24185ffa4c9a0fb0da /arch/arm/Kconfig
parent5b43e7a383d69381ffe53423e46dd0fafae07da3 (diff)
ARM: move vector stubs
Move the machine vector stubs into the page above the vector page, which we can prevent from being visible to userspace. Also move the reset stub, and place the swi vector at a location that the 'ldr' can get to it. This hides pointers into the kernel which could give valuable information to attackers, and reduces the number of exploitable instructions at a fixed address. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index ba412e02ec0..123b7924904 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -218,7 +218,8 @@ config VECTORS_BASE
default DRAM_BASE if REMAP_VECTORS_TO_RAM
default 0x00000000
help
- The base address of exception vectors.
+ The base address of exception vectors. This must be two pages
+ in size.
config ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT
bool "Patch physical to virtual translations at runtime" if EMBEDDED