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x86, vdso: Zero-pad the VVAR page

By coincidence, the VVAR page is at the end of an ELF segment.  As a
result, if it ends up being a partial page, the kernel loader will
leave garbage behind at the end of the vvar page.  Zero-pad it to a
full page to fix this issue.

This has probably been broken since the VVAR page was introduced.
On QEMU, if you dump the run-time contents of the VVAR page, you can
find entertaining strings from seabios left behind.

It's remotely possible that this is a security bug -- conceivably
there's some BIOS out there that leaves something sensitive in the
few K of memory that is exposed to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395094933-14252-12-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Andy Lutomirski 11 жил өмнө
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arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S

@@ -164,6 +164,11 @@ SECTIONS
 #undef __VVAR_KERNEL_LDS
 #undef EMIT_VVAR
 
+		/*
+		 * Pad the rest of the page with zeros.  Otherwise the loader
+		 * can leave garbage here.
+		 */
+		. = __vvar_beginning_hack + PAGE_SIZE;
 	} :data
 
        . = ALIGN(__vvar_page + PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE);