linux/kernel
Andi Kleen b45c6e76bc kernel/signal.c: fix kernel information leak with print-fatal-signals=1
When print-fatal-signals is enabled it's possible to dump any memory
reachable by the kernel to the log by simply jumping to that address from
user space.

Or crash the system if there's some hardware with read side effects.

The fatal signals handler will dump 16 bytes at the execution address,
which is fully controlled by ring 3.

In addition when something jumps to a unmapped address there will be up to
16 additional useless page faults, which might be potentially slow (and at
least is not very efficient)

Fortunately this option is off by default and only there on i386.

But fix it by checking for kernel addresses and also stopping when there's
a page fault.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-11 09:34:05 -08:00
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gcov
irq
power
time Revert "time: Remove xtime_cache" 2009-12-22 14:10:37 -08:00
trace Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-31 11:52:01 -08:00
.gitignore
acct.c
async.c
audit.c
audit.h
audit_tree.c fix more leaks in audit_tree.c tag_chunk() 2009-12-19 09:27:43 -08:00
audit_watch.c
auditfilter.c
auditsc.c Sanitize f_flags helpers 2009-12-22 12:27:34 -05:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
cgroup.c cgroups: fix 2.6.32 regression causing BUG_ON() in cgroup_diput() 2010-01-11 09:34:05 -08:00
cgroup_freezer.c
compat.c
configs.c
cpu.c
cpuset.c
cred-internals.h
cred.c
delayacct.c
dma.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c
extable.c
fork.c
freezer.c
futex.c
futex_compat.c
groups.c
hrtimer.c
hung_task.c
hw_breakpoint.c Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-31 11:52:01 -08:00
itimer.c
kallsyms.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c
kfifo.c kfifo: add record handling functions 2009-12-22 14:17:56 -08:00
kgdb.c
kmod.c kmod: fix resource leak in call_usermodehelper_pipe() 2010-01-11 09:34:04 -08:00
kprobes.c kprobes: Fix distinct type warning 2009-12-28 10:25:31 +01:00
ksysfs.c
kthread.c
latencytop.c
lockdep.c
lockdep_internals.h
lockdep_proc.c
lockdep_states.h
Makefile
module.c modules: Skip empty sections when exporting section notes 2010-01-06 01:11:29 -08:00
mutex-debug.c
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c
mutex.h
notifier.c
ns_cgroup.c
nsproxy.c
panic.c
params.c
perf_event.c Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-31 11:56:24 -08:00
pid.c
pid_namespace.c
pm_qos_params.c
posix-cpu-timers.c
posix-timers.c
printk.c
profile.c
ptrace.c
rcupdate.c
rcutiny.c
rcutorture.c
rcutree.c
rcutree.h
rcutree_plugin.h
rcutree_trace.c
relay.c
res_counter.c
resource.c resources: fix call to alignf() in allocate_resource() 2009-12-21 10:42:29 -08:00
rtmutex-debug.c
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c
rtmutex.c
rtmutex.h
rtmutex_common.h
rwsem.c
sched.c sched: Revert 738d2be, simplify set_task_cpu() 2009-12-23 10:04:10 +01:00
sched_clock.c
sched_cpupri.c
sched_cpupri.h
sched_debug.c
sched_fair.c
sched_features.h
sched_idletask.c sched: Restore printk sanity 2009-12-20 19:05:02 +01:00
sched_rt.c
sched_stats.h
seccomp.c
semaphore.c
signal.c kernel/signal.c: fix kernel information leak with print-fatal-signals=1 2010-01-11 09:34:05 -08:00
slow-work-debugfs.c
slow-work.c
slow-work.h
smp.c
softirq.c
softlockup.c
spinlock.c
srcu.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c
sys.c Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-19 09:47:34 -08:00
sys_ni.c
sysctl.c
sysctl_binary.c SYSCTL: Print binary sysctl warnings (nearly) only once 2009-12-23 21:00:20 +01:00
sysctl_check.c
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c
time.c Revert "time: Remove xtime_cache" 2009-12-22 14:10:37 -08:00
timeconst.pl
timer.c
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c
uid16.c
up.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c
user_namespace.c
utsname.c
utsname_sysctl.c
wait.c
workqueue.c