3.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit f285f4a21c3253887caceed493089ece17579d59 upstream. On 64-bit, relocation is not required unless the load address gets changed. Without this, relocations do unexpected things when the kernel is above 4G. Reported-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Thomas D. <whissi@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Junjie Mao <eternal.n08@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150116005146.GA4212@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c @@ -396,6 +396,8 @@ asmlinkage void *decompress_kernel(void unsigned long output_len, unsigned long run_size) { + unsigned char *output_orig = output; + real_mode = rmode; sanitize_boot_params(real_mode); @@ -444,7 +446,12 @@ asmlinkage void *decompress_kernel(void debug_putstr("\nDecompressing Linux... "); decompress(input_data, input_len, NULL, NULL, output, NULL, error); parse_elf(output); - handle_relocations(output, output_len); + /* + * 32-bit always performs relocations. 64-bit relocations are only + * needed if kASLR has chosen a different load address. + */ + if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_64) || output != output_orig) + handle_relocations(output, output_len); debug_putstr("done.\nBooting the kernel.\n"); return output; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html