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authorStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>2008-05-26 14:05:47 +1000
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>2008-05-26 14:05:47 +1000
commit9999e2eaa904f5f237c1a3adf728d83bdd60f4e8 (patch)
tree25203047aa877bd610412602bdffd746f15a0a85
parent86ae8ec1aad12029e25922abde99aca8a7789999 (diff)
parent948f984df52511bb0efa5c026813b0c34de43aa0 (diff)
Merge commit 'safe-poison-pointers/safe-poison-pointers'
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig5
-rw-r--r--include/linux/poison.h10
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index c4ddb6a3820b..b2445a0b6d3c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -1025,6 +1025,11 @@ config ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE
def_bool X86_64
depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
+config ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE
+ hex
+ default 0 if X86_32
+ default 0xffffc10000000000 if X86_64
+
source "mm/Kconfig"
config HIGHPTE
diff --git a/include/linux/poison.h b/include/linux/poison.h
index 9f31683728fd..0d105a56e668 100644
--- a/include/linux/poison.h
+++ b/include/linux/poison.h
@@ -1,14 +1,20 @@
#ifndef _LINUX_POISON_H
#define _LINUX_POISON_H
+#ifdef CONFIG_ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE
+#define POISON_POINTER_DELTA CONFIG_ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE
+#else
+#define POISON_POINTER_DELTA 0L
+#endif
+
/********** include/linux/list.h **********/
/*
* These are non-NULL pointers that will result in page faults
* under normal circumstances, used to verify that nobody uses
* non-initialized list entries.
*/
-#define LIST_POISON1 ((void *) 0x00100100)
-#define LIST_POISON2 ((void *) 0x00200200)
+#define LIST_POISON1 ((void *) 0x00100100 + POISON_POINTER_DELTA)
+#define LIST_POISON2 ((void *) 0x00200200 + POISON_POINTER_DELTA)
/********** include/linux/timer.h **********/
/*