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vDSO exception fixup is a replacement for signals in limited situations. Signals and vDSO exception fixup need to provide similar information to userspace, including the hardware error code. That hardware error code needs to be sanitized. For instance, if userspace accesses a kernel address, the error code could indicate to userspace whether the address had a Present=1 PTE. That can leak information about the kernel layout to userspace, which is bad. The existing signal code does this sanitization, but fairly late in the signal process. The vDSO exception code runs before the sanitization happens. Move error code sanitization out of the signal code and into a helper. Call the helper in the signal code. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Acked-by: Jethro Beekman <jethro@fortanix.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201112220135.165028-18-jarkko@kernel.org
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.