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Christophe Leroy
59a12205d3
Introduce lkdtm tests for NULL pointer dereference: check access or exec
at NULL address, since these errors tend to be reported differently from
the general fault error text. For example from x86:
pr_alert("BUG: unable to handle kernel %s at %px\n",
address < PAGE_SIZE ? "NULL pointer dereference" : "paging request",
(void *)address);
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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