Hello Ingo, Peter or Kees,

This is to back-port to stable-3.0 that only adjusted the context that
need your review please.

Regards,
CAI Qian

>From e575a86fdc50d013bf3ad3aa81d9100e8e6cc60d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 09:44:13 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] x86: Do not leak kernel page mapping locations

Without this patch, it is trivial to determine kernel page
mappings by examining the error code reported to dmesg[1].
Instead, declare the entire kernel memory space as a violation
of a present page.

Additionally, since show_unhandled_signals is enabled by
default, switch branch hinting to the more realistic
expectation, and unobfuscate the setting of the PF_PROT bit to
improve readability.

[1] http://vulnfactory.org/blog/2013/02/06/a-linux-memory-trick/

Reported-by: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenb...@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Brad Spengler <spen...@grsecurity.net>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebied...@xmission.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijls...@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130207174413.ga12...@www.outflux.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: CAI Qian <caiq...@redhat.com>

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index 2dbf6bf..3b2ad91 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -720,12 +720,15 @@ __bad_area_nosemaphore(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned 
long error_code,
                if (is_errata100(regs, address))
                        return;
 
-               if (unlikely(show_unhandled_signals))
+               /* Kernel addresses are always protection faults: */
+               if (address >= TASK_SIZE)
+                       error_code |= PF_PROT;
+
+               if (likely(show_unhandled_signals))
                        show_signal_msg(regs, error_code, address, tsk);
 
-               /* Kernel addresses are always protection faults: */
                tsk->thread.cr2         = address;
-               tsk->thread.error_code  = error_code | (address >= TASK_SIZE);
+               tsk->thread.error_code  = error_code;
                tsk->thread.trap_no     = 14;
 
                force_sig_info_fault(SIGSEGV, si_code, address, tsk, 0);
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