From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 0f9aee0cb9da7db7d96f63cfa2dc5e4f1bffeb87 ] Running vdsotest leaves many times the following log: [ 79.629901] vdsotest[396]: User access of kernel address (ffffffff) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0) A pointer set to (-1) is likely a programming error similar to a NULL pointer and is not worth logging as an exploit attempt. Don't log user accesses to 0xffffffff. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0728849e826ba16f1fbd6fa7f5c6cc87bd64e097.1577087627.git.christophe.leroy@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c index 1baeb045f7f4b..e083a9f67f701 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c @@ -354,6 +354,9 @@ static void sanity_check_fault(bool is_write, bool is_user, * Userspace trying to access kernel address, we get PROTFAULT for that. */ if (is_user && address >= TASK_SIZE) { + if ((long)address == -1) + return; + pr_crit_ratelimited("%s[%d]: User access of kernel address (%lx) - exploit attempt? (uid: %d)\n", current->comm, current->pid, address, from_kuid(&init_user_ns, current_uid())); -- 2.20.1
