Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86-64: Give vvars their own page

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 01:38:39PM -0400, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Move vvars out of the vsyscall page into their own page and mark it
> NX.
> 
> Without this patch, an attacker who can force a daemon to call some
> fixed address could wait until the time contains, say, 0xCD80, and
> then execute the current time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h        |    1 +
>  arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h |    2 ++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h          |   22 ++++++++++------------
>  arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S        |   27 ++++++++++++++++-----------
>  arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c        |    5 +++++
>  tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat  |  Bin 0 -> 29200 bytes

You've added the turbostat binary to the diffstat too. I believe this
wasn't your intention, no? :)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.
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