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authorGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>2010-01-28 14:38:25 -0700
committerGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>2010-01-28 14:38:25 -0700
commit0ada0a73120c28cc432bcdbac061781465c2f48f (patch)
treed17cadd4ea47e25d9e48e7d409a39c84268fbd27 /include/linux/poison.h
parent6016a363f6b56b46b24655bcfc0499b715851cf3 (diff)
parent92dcffb916d309aa01778bf8963a6932e4014d07 (diff)
Merge commit 'v2.6.33-rc5' into secretlab/test-devicetree
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 **********/
/*