[PATCH v2] riscv: define ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE for 64bit
Jisheng Zhang
jszhang at kernel.org
Fri Jul 5 17:50:10 PDT 2024
On Sat, Jul 06, 2024 at 01:02:10AM +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> This is used in poison.h for poison pointer offset. Based on current
> SV39, SV48 and SV57 vm layout, 0xdead000000000000 is a proper value
> that is not mappable, this can avoid potentially turning an oops to
> an expolit.
Maybe I also need to cc stable? This is a secure hole fix patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang at kernel.org>
> ---
>
> Since v1:
> - fix typo:s/SV59/SV57
>
> arch/riscv/Kconfig | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> index c51b32a8ddff..c992eabbd002 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> @@ -313,6 +313,11 @@ config GENERIC_HWEIGHT
> config FIX_EARLYCON_MEM
> def_bool MMU
>
> +config ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE
> + hex
> + default 0 if 32BIT
> + default 0xdead000000000000 if 64BIT
> +
> config PGTABLE_LEVELS
> int
> default 5 if 64BIT
> --
> 2.43.0
>
>
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