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    kernel/signal.c: fix kernel information leak with print-fatal-signals=1 · b45c6e76
    Andi Kleen authored
    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: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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