On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 12:24:08PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: >> static allocation in misc.c can not be used to kernel/head_64.S stage safely. > > Correct. One possibility that works is sticking it right below > LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR: > > +static void add_kaslr_setup_data(struct boot_params *params, > + u8 *output, __u8 enabled) > { > + /* > + * Stick it right under LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR > + */ > + ksd = (struct setup_data *)(output - 2 * sizeof(struct setup_data)); > > output is LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR AFAICT and is the minimum kASLR considers > so right below it should work: Does not look safe yet... Let me think about it more. Thanks Yinghai -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html