On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 02:21:05PM +0000, Alexander Lobakin wrote:

LLVM-built Linux triggered a boot hangup with KASLR enabled.

arch/mips/kernel/relocate.c:get_random_boot() uses linux_banner,
which is a string constant, as a random seed, but accesses it
as an array of unsigned long (in rotate_xor()).
When the address of linux_banner is not aligned to sizeof(long),
such access emits unaligned access exception and hangs the kernel.

Use PTR_ALIGN() to align input address to sizeof(long) and also
align down the input length to prevent possible access-beyond-end.

Fixes: 405bc8fd12f5 ("MIPS: Kernel: Implement KASLR using CONFIG_RELOCATABLE")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.7+
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <redacted>
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 arch/mips/kernel/relocate.c | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

applied to mips-fixes.

Thomas.

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