x86, vdso: Zero-pad the VVAR page
By coincidence, the VVAR page is at the end of an ELF segment. As a result, if it ends up being a partial page, the kernel loader will leave garbage behind at the end of the vvar page. Zero-pad it to a full page to fix this issue. This has probably been broken since the VVAR page was introduced. On QEMU, if you dump the run-time contents of the VVAR page, you can find entertaining strings from seabios left behind. It's remotely possible that this is a security bug -- conceivably there's some BIOS out there that leaves something sensitive in the few K of memory that is exposed to userspace. Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395094933-14252-12-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.netSigned-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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