This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/boot/64: Verify alignment of the LOAD segment
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-boot-64-verify-alignment-of-the-load-segment.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From c55b8550fa57ba4f5e507be406ff9fc2845713e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:08:11 -0700
Subject: x86/boot/64: Verify alignment of the LOAD segment
From: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx>
commit c55b8550fa57ba4f5e507be406ff9fc2845713e8 upstream.
Since the x86-64 kernel must be aligned to 2MB, refuse to boot the
kernel if the alignment of the LOAD segment isn't a multiple of 2MB.
Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAMe9rOrR7xSJgUfiCoZLuqWUwymRxXPoGBW38%2BpN%3D9g%2ByKNhZw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
@@ -366,6 +366,10 @@ static void parse_elf(void *output)
switch (phdr->p_type) {
case PT_LOAD:
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+ if ((phdr->p_align % 0x200000) != 0)
+ error("Alignment of LOAD segment isn't multiple of 2MB");
+#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
dest = output;
dest += (phdr->p_paddr - LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/x86-boot-64-verify-alignment-of-the-load-segment.patch
queue-4.4/x86-build-64-force-the-linker-to-use-2mb-page-size.patch