[Patch v22 12/12] x86: Zero-pad the VVAR page

2014-03-03 Thread Stefani Seibold
From: Andy Lutomirski 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

[Patch v22 12/12] x86: Zero-pad the VVAR page

2014-03-03 Thread Stefani Seibold
From: Andy Lutomirski l...@amacapital.net 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