On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I don't see how bss and brk are related to these sizes. Can you > explain how bss, brk, and initrd factor into these sizes? Those were > what run_size was created to represent. I don't want to accidentally > start stomping on bss and brk again. :) VO (vlinux) init size aka VO_INIT_SIZE already inlude that. Please check update version. commit e6023367d779 ("x86, kaslr: Prevent .bss from overlaping initrd") introduced one run_size for kaslr. We should use real runtime size (include copy/decompress) aka init_size. run_size is VO (vmlinux) init size include bss and brk. init_size is the size needed for decompress and it is bigger than run_size when decompress need more buff. According to arch/x86/boot/header.S: | #define ZO_INIT_SIZE (ZO__end - ZO_startup_32 + ZO_z_extract_offset) | #define VO_INIT_SIZE (VO__end - VO__text) | #if ZO_INIT_SIZE > VO_INIT_SIZE | #define INIT_SIZE ZO_INIT_SIZE | #else | #define INIT_SIZE VO_INIT_SIZE | #endif | init_size: .long INIT_SIZE # kernel initialization size Bootloader allocate buffer according to init_size in hdr, and load the ZO (arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux) from start of that buffer. init_size first should come from VO (vmlinux) init size. That VO init size is from VO _end to VO _end and include VO bss and brk area. During running of ZO, ZO move itself to the middle of buffer at z_extract_offset to make sure that decompressor would not have output overwrite input data before input data get consumed. But z_extract_offset calculating is based on size of VO (vmlinux) and size of compressed VO only at first. So need to make sure [z_extra_offset, init_size) will fit ZO, that means init_size need to be adjusted according to ZO size. That make init_size is always >= run_size. During aslr buffer searching, we need to make sure the buffer is bigger enough for decompress at first. So use init_size instead, and kill not needed run_size related code. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html