Thread (54 messages) 54 messages, 8 authors, 2016-01-12

[PATCH v2 12/13] arm64: add support for relocatable kernel

From: james.morse@arm.com (James Morse)
Date: 2016-01-08 10:18:11
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Hi Ard!

On 30/12/15 15:26, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
This adds support for runtime relocation of the kernel Image, by
building it as a PIE (ET_DYN) executable and applying the dynamic
relocations in the early boot code.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <redacted>
---
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
index 01a33e42ed70..ab582ee58b58 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
@@ -243,6 +253,16 @@ ENDPROC(stext)
 preserve_boot_args:
 	mov	x21, x0				// x21=FDT
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_RELOCATABLE_KERNEL
+	/*
+	 * Mask off the bits of the random value supplied in x1 so it can serve
+	 * as a KASLR displacement value which will move the kernel image to a
+	 * random offset in the lower half of the VMALLOC area.
+	 */
+	mov	x23, #(1 << (VA_BITS - 2)) - 1
+	and	x23, x23, x1, lsl #SWAPPER_BLOCK_SHIFT
+#endif
I've managed to make this fail to boot by providing a seed that caused
the kernel to overlap a 1G boundary on a 4K system.

(It looks like your v3 may have the same issue - but I haven't tested it.)

+
 	adr_l	x0, boot_args			// record the contents of
 	stp	x21, x1, [x0]			// x0 .. x3 at kernel entry
 	stp	x2, x3, [x0, #16]

Thanks!

James
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