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Ard Biesheuvel ebed28c420 x86/boot: Sanitize boot params before parsing command line
commit c00b413a96 upstream.

The 5-level paging code parses the command line to look for the 'no5lvl'
string, and does so very early, before sanitize_boot_params() has been
called and has been given the opportunity to wipe bogus data from the
fields in boot_params that are not covered by struct setup_header, and
are therefore supposed to be initialized to zero by the bootloader.

This triggers an early boot crash when using syslinux-efi to boot a
recent kernel built with CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y and CONFIG_EFI_STUB=n, as
the 0xff padding that now fills the unused PE/COFF header is copied into
boot_params by the bootloader, and interpreted as the top half of the
command line pointer.

Fix this by sanitizing the boot_params before use. Note that there is no
harm in calling this more than once; subsequent invocations are able to
spot that the boot_params have already been cleaned up.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v6.1+
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250306155915.342465-2-ardb+git@google.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202503041549.35913.ulrich.gemkow@ikr.uni-stuttgart.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2025-03-13 13:01:54 +01:00
arch x86/boot: Sanitize boot params before parsing command line 2025-03-13 13:01:54 +01:00
block block: Remove zone write plugs when handling native zone append writes 2025-03-07 18:25:40 +01:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: api - Fix boot-up self-test race 2025-02-08 09:57:28 +01:00
Documentation Documentation: rust: discuss #[expect(...)] in the guidelines 2025-03-13 13:01:42 +01:00
drivers platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Add battery quirk for ThinkPad X131e 2025-03-13 13:01:54 +01:00
fs btrfs: fix a leaked chunk map issue in read_one_chunk() 2025-03-13 13:01:52 +01:00
include rcuref: Plug slowpath race in rcuref_put() 2025-03-07 18:25:43 +01:00
init Compiler Attributes: disable __counted_by for clang < 19.1.3 2024-12-05 14:02:45 +01:00
io_uring io_uring/net: save msg_control for compat 2025-03-07 18:25:35 +01:00
ipc ipc: fix memleak if msg_init_ns failed in create_ipc_ns 2024-12-05 14:03:02 +01:00
kernel tracing: tprobe-events: Reject invalid tracepoint name 2025-03-13 13:01:49 +01:00
lib rcuref: Plug slowpath race in rcuref_put() 2025-03-07 18:25:43 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm Revert "mm/page_alloc.c: don't show protection in zone's ->lowmem_reserve[] for empty zone" 2025-03-13 13:01:54 +01:00
net mptcp: reset when MPTCP opts are dropped after join 2025-03-07 18:25:42 +01:00
rust rust: alloc: Fix ArrayLayout allocations 2025-03-13 13:01:49 +01:00
samples rust: treewide: switch to the kernel Vec type 2025-03-13 13:01:46 +01:00
scripts kbuild: rust: remove the alloc crate and GlobalAlloc 2025-03-13 13:01:47 +01:00
security ima: Reset IMA_NONACTION_RULE_FLAGS after post_setattr 2025-03-07 18:25:44 +01:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: update ALC222 depop optimize 2025-03-13 13:01:52 +01:00
tools Revert "selftests/mm: remove local __NR_* definitions" 2025-03-13 13:01:54 +01:00
usr initramfs: shorten cmd_initfs in usr/Makefile 2024-07-16 01:07:52 +09:00
virt KVM: x86: switch hugepage recovery thread to vhost_task 2024-12-05 14:02:43 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: enable Clippy's check-private-items 2025-03-13 13:01:42 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore rust: introduce .clippy.toml 2025-03-13 13:01:42 +01:00
.mailmap mailmap: add entry for Thorsten Blum 2024-11-07 14:14:59 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove self from DSA entry 2024-11-03 12:52:38 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add entry for the Rust alloc module 2025-03-13 13:01:47 +01:00
Makefile rust: replace clippy::dbg_macro with disallowed_macros 2025-03-13 13:01:42 +01:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

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

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

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.