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Commit 25dfe478 authored by Thomas Garnier's avatar Thomas Garnier Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/mm/64: Enable KASLR for vmemmap memory region



Add vmemmap in the list of randomized memory regions.

The vmemmap region holds a representation of the physical memory (through
a struct page array). An attacker could use this region to disclose the
kernel memory layout (walking the page linked list).

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469635196-122447-1-git-send-email-thgarnie@google.com


[ Minor edits. ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 404f6aac
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