Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/mm/KASLR: Correct the upper boundary of KALSR mm regions if adjacent to EFI

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Thanks for the change.

Acked-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@xxxxxxxxxx>

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 12:35 AM, Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 03/08/17 at 03:47pm, Baoquan He wrote:
>>> EFI allocates runtime services regions top-down, starting from EFI_VA_START
>>> to EFI_VA_END. So EFI_VA_START is bigger than EFI_VA_END and is the end of
>>> EFI region. The upper boundary of memory regions randomized by KASLR should
>>> be EFI_VA_END if it's adjacent to EFI region, but not EFI_VA_START.
>>>
>>> Correct it in this patch.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>  arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c | 4 ++--
>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c b/arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c
>>> index 887e571..aed2064 100644
>>> --- a/arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/kaslr.c
>>> @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ static const unsigned long vaddr_start = __PAGE_OFFSET_BASE;
>>>  #if defined(CONFIG_X86_ESPFIX64)
>>>  static const unsigned long vaddr_end = ESPFIX_BASE_ADDR;
>>>  #elif defined(CONFIG_EFI)
>>> -static const unsigned long vaddr_end = EFI_VA_START;
>>> +static const unsigned long vaddr_end = EFI_VA_END;
>>>  #else
>>>  static const unsigned long vaddr_end = __START_KERNEL_map;
>>>  #endif
>>> @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ void __init kernel_randomize_memory(void)
>>>        */
>>>       BUILD_BUG_ON(vaddr_start >= vaddr_end);
>>>       BUILD_BUG_ON(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_ESPFIX64) &&
>>> -                  vaddr_end >= EFI_VA_START);
>>> +                  vaddr_end >= EFI_VA_END);
>>>       BUILD_BUG_ON((IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_ESPFIX64) ||
>>>                     IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_EFI)) &&
>>>                    vaddr_end >= __START_KERNEL_map);
>>> --
>>> 2.5.5
>>>
>>
>> Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>
> Thanks Bao for this fix. This makes the KASLR code consistent with
> Address space markers hints in [1]
>
> [1] http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c#L82
>
> Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Regards,
> Bhupesh



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Thomas
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