> When choosing a random address, the current implementation does not take into > account the reversed space for .bss and .brk sections. Thus the relocated > kernel > may overlap other components in memory, e.g. the initrd image:
initrd should be included in the avoid arrays already, and bss is included in the output_size for choose_kernel_location(). So something else is going on? --Mika On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Mika Penttilä <[email protected]> wrote: >> When choosing a random address, the current implementation does not take >> into >> account the reversed space for .bss and .brk sections. Thus the relocated >> kernel >> may overlap other components in memory, e.g. the initrd image: > > initrd should be included in the avoid arrays already, and bss is included > in the output_size > > for choose_kernel_location(). So something else is going on? > > --Mika > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

