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Baoquan He c05cd79750 x86/boot/KASLR: Prefer mirrored memory regions for the kernel physical address
Currently KASLR will parse all e820 entries of RAM type and add all
candidate positions into the slots array. After that we choose one slot
randomly as the new position which the kernel will be decompressed into
and run at.

On systems with EFI enabled, e820 memory regions are coming from EFI
memory regions by combining adjacent regions.

These EFI memory regions have various attributes, and the "mirrored"
attribute is one of them. The physical memory region whose descriptors
in EFI memory map has EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE attribute (bit: 16) are
mirrored. The address range mirroring feature of the kernel arranges such
mirrored regions into normal zones and other regions into movable zones.

With the mirroring feature enabled, the code and data of the kernel can only
be located in the more reliable mirrored regions. However, the current KASLR
code doesn't check EFI memory entries, and could choose a new kernel position
in non-mirrored regions. This will break the intended functionality of the
address range mirroring feature.

To fix this, if EFI is detected, iterate EFI memory map and pick the mirrored
region to process for adding candidate of randomization slot. If EFI is disabled
or no mirrored region found, still process the e820 memory map.

Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Cc: fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com
Cc: keescook@chromium.org
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Cc: n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com
Cc: thgarnie@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502722464-20614-3-git-send-email-bhe@redhat.com
[ Rewrote most of the text. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
History 2017-08-17 10:51:35 +02:00
arch x86/boot/KASLR: Prefer mirrored memory regions for the kernel physical address 2017-08-17 10:51:35 +02:00
block block: Make blk_mq_delay_kick_requeue_list() rerun the queue at a quiet time 2017-08-09 20:24:38 -06:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: authencesn - Fix digest_null crash 2017-07-18 17:01:11 +08:00
Documentation fbdev fixes for v4.13-rc5: 2017-08-11 11:44:18 -07:00
drivers efi: Introduce efi_early_memdesc_ptr to get pointer to memmap descriptor 2017-08-17 10:50:57 +02:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs Some more NFS client bugfixes for 4.13 2017-08-11 13:54:09 -07:00
include efi: Introduce efi_early_memdesc_ptr to get pointer to memmap descriptor 2017-08-17 10:50:57 +02:00
init random: do not ignore early device randomness 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
ipc ipc: add missing container_of()s for randstruct 2017-08-02 17:16:12 -07:00
kernel audit/stable-4.13 PR 20170816 2017-08-16 16:48:34 -07:00
lib fault-inject: fix wrong should_fail() decision in task context 2017-08-10 15:54:06 -07:00
mm rmap: do not call mmu_notifier_invalidate_page() under ptl 2017-08-10 15:54:07 -07:00
net net_sched: remove warning from qdisc_hash_add 2017-08-15 17:16:39 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: fix bpf tunnel cleanup 2017-07-31 22:02:47 -07:00
scripts parse-maintainers: Move matching sections from MAINTAINERS 2017-08-08 11:16:14 -07:00
security Now that IPC and other changes have landed, enable manual markings for 2017-07-19 08:55:18 -07:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v4.13 2017-08-02 17:11:45 +02:00
tools linux-kselftest-4.13-rc6-fixes 2017-08-15 12:49:43 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt KVM/ARM Fixes for v4.13-rc4 2017-08-03 17:59:58 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture 2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: migrate all arch to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade 2010-09-19 22:54:11 -04:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: copy virtio on balloon_compaction.c 2017-08-10 15:54:07 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.13-rc5 2017-08-13 16:01:32 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.