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authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2010-02-17 14:24:46 +0100
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2010-02-17 14:24:46 +0100
commit7fb3a069bc5d3577409c2ae89f89cd264ff85816 (patch)
tree7fe3ba3b95faeecb01e4feafb9288ef4b523c6b3 /include/linux/poison.h
parent291186e049d7f8178ad31d43c38a53889f25d79e (diff)
parent9d3415a8cc76ff65c6602a121ac318432c5cd7ba (diff)
Merge branch 'fix/misc' into topic/misc
Conflicts: sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c
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 7fc194aef8c..2110a81c5e2 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 **********/
/*