Comment says "by preventing anything executable" which is not true. Even
PROT_NONE mapping can't be installed at (1<<47 - 4096).
mmap(0x7ffffffff000, 4096, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = -1 ENOMEM
[ bp: Fixup to the moved location in page_64_types.h. ]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200305181719.GA5490@avx2
* On Intel CPUs, if a SYSCALL instruction is at the highest canonical
* address, then that syscall will enter the kernel with a
* non-canonical return address, and SYSRET will explode dangerously.
- * We avoid this particular problem by preventing anything executable
+ * We avoid this particular problem by preventing anything
* from being mapped at the maximum canonical address.
*
* On AMD CPUs in the Ryzen family, there's a nasty bug in which the