This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled arm64: kconfig: Move LIST_POISON to a safe value to the 4.2-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: arm64-kconfig-move-list_poison-to-a-safe-value.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From bf0c4e04732479f650ff59d1ee82de761c0071f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 20:50:10 +0100 Subject: arm64: kconfig: Move LIST_POISON to a safe value From: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@xxxxxxxxxx> commit bf0c4e04732479f650ff59d1ee82de761c0071f0 upstream. Move the poison pointer offset to 0xdead000000000000, a recognized value that is not mappable by user-space exploits. Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thierry Strudel <tstrudel@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm64/Kconfig | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig @@ -104,6 +104,10 @@ config NO_IOPORT_MAP config STACKTRACE_SUPPORT def_bool y +config ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE + hex + default 0xdead000000000000 + config LOCKDEP_SUPPORT def_bool y Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jeffv@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.2/arm64-kconfig-move-list_poison-to-a-safe-value.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html