Patch "arm64: kconfig: Move LIST_POISON to a safe value" has been added to the 4.2-stable tree

Patch "arm64: kconfig: Move LIST_POISON to a safe value" has been added to the 4.2-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    arm64: kconfig: Move LIST_POISON to a safe value

to the 4.2-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     arm64-kconfig-move-list_poison-to-a-safe-value.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From bf0c4e04732479f650ff59d1ee82de761c0071f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 20:50:10 +0100
Subject: arm64: kconfig: Move LIST_POISON to a safe value

From: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com>

commit bf0c4e04732479f650ff59d1ee82de761c0071f0 upstream.

Move the poison pointer offset to 0xdead000000000000, a
recognized value that is not mappable by user-space exploits.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Strudel <tstrudel@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/arm64/Kconfig |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -104,6 +104,10 @@ config NO_IOPORT_MAP
 config STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
 	def_bool y
 
+config ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE
+	hex
+	default 0xdead000000000000
+
 config LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
 	def_bool y
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jeffv@google.com are

queue-4.2/arm64-kconfig-move-list_poison-to-a-safe-value.patch