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File 524e9762-x86-percpu-Force-INVALID_PERCPU_AREA-to-non-canonical.patch of Package xen (Revision 6697a53932dbbbc9a196cf0c529c9c70)

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# Commit 7cfb0053629c4dd1a6f01dc43cca7c0c25b8b7bf
# Date 2013-10-04 12:24:34 +0200
# Author Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
# Committer Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
x86/percpu: Force INVALID_PERCPU_AREA into the non-canonical address region

This causes accidental uses of per_cpu() on a pcpu with an INVALID_PERCPU_AREA
to result in a #GF for attempting to access the middle of the non-canonical
virtual address region.

This is preferable to the current behaviour, where incorrect use of per_cpu()
will result in an effective NULL structure dereference which has security
implication in the context of PV guests.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>

--- a/xen/arch/x86/percpu.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/percpu.c
@@ -6,7 +6,14 @@
 #include <xen/rcupdate.h>
 
 unsigned long __per_cpu_offset[NR_CPUS];
-#define INVALID_PERCPU_AREA (-(long)__per_cpu_start)
+
+/*
+ * Force uses of per_cpu() with an invalid area to attempt to access the
+ * middle of the non-canonical address space resulting in a #GP, rather than a
+ * possible #PF at (NULL + a little) which has security implications in the
+ * context of PV guests.
+ */
+#define INVALID_PERCPU_AREA (0x8000000000000000L - (long)__per_cpu_start)
 #define PERCPU_ORDER (get_order_from_bytes(__per_cpu_data_end-__per_cpu_start))
 
 void __init percpu_init_areas(void)

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