Re: [PATCH] x86/boot/KASLR: Skip relocation handling in no kaslr case

[Baoquan He]

On 06/27/17 at 10:34am, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Baoquan He <b...@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > As you suggested, we can add a checking to see if the virt_addr is
> > bigger than 1G, and print warning if exceed or hang there with error
> > message.
> 
> Could you try a patch for that, and see whether it catches this particular 
> bug? 
> (before the fix is applied.)

Sure, below code change should catch it. Just I am struggling to decide
if I should add a new local variable and assign
 max(output_len, kernel_total_size) to it, and the name of the new local
variable is really hard to choose. Let me run a test on below code.

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
index c945acd8fa33..00241c815524 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
@@ -390,6 +390,8 @@ asmlinkage __visible void *extract_kernel(void *rmode, 
memptr heap,
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
        if (heap > 0x3fffffffffffUL)
                error("Destination address too large");
+       if (virt_addr + max(output_len, kernel_total_size) > KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE)
+               error("Destination virtual address is beyond the kernel mapping 
area");
 #else
        if (heap > ((-__PAGE_OFFSET-(128<<20)-1) & 0x7fffffff))
                error("Destination address too large");