[PATCH 1/5] x86-64: Pad vDSO to a page boundary

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Tue Jul 26 2011 - 23:21:47 EST


This avoids an information leak to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/vdso/vdso.S | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso.S b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso.S
index 1b979c1..01f5e3b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso.S
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso.S
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ __PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA
vdso_start:
.incbin "arch/x86/vdso/vdso.so"
vdso_end:
+ .align PAGE_SIZE /* extra data here leaks to userspace. */

.previous

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1.7.6

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