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Date:	Tue, 9 Sep 2014 14:24:16 +0800
From:	Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@...ssi.de>,
	Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	WANG Chao <chaowang@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] kaslr: check user's config too when handle
 relocations

On 09/05/14 at 10:11am, Kees Cook wrote:
> I don't think this is correct. If you look at a02150610776 ("x86,
> relocs: Move ELF relocation handling to C"), we always did relocations
> on 32-bit when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE was set, so I think this will fail
> badly on 32-bit. 64-bit only needs relocation when
> CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, so this is probably what needs to be
> tested here instead. I think a better option would be, in
> decompress_kernel(), to compare output before and after
> choose_kernel_location(). If it's the same on 64-bit,
> handle_relocations() can be skipped. (Perhaps pass the before/after to
> handle_relocations() and it can perform the logic.)
> 
> -Kees

Hi Kees,

Checking handle_relocations() again, I just didn't notice it's mandatory
to do the relocations handling in i386. So in this function delta is
checked to see if it's a kaslr relocation handling. This might be a
little confusing. But I am fine with it.

Per your comment, you prefer to compare the output before and after
choose_kernel_location(). That's also good, Lu Yinghai posted a draft
patch in this way before, however the checking and the delta calculation
are not correct. I changed that and test all cases, it works well. So
do you like this it? If yes  I will repost it.

>From 13471bd838c52a0e143c2aee81e3863cfff585bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 14:57:43 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] kaslr: check if kernel location is changed

Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c | 15 +++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
index 57ab74d..887f404 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
@@ -230,8 +230,9 @@ static void error(char *x)
 		asm("hlt");
 }
 
-#if CONFIG_X86_NEED_RELOCS
-static void handle_relocations(void *output, unsigned long output_len)
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_NEED_RELOCS
+static void handle_relocations(void *output_orig, void *output,
+			       unsigned long output_len)
 {
 	int *reloc;
 	unsigned long delta, map, ptr;
@@ -242,6 +243,9 @@ static void handle_relocations(void *output, unsigned long output_len)
 	 * Calculate the delta between where vmlinux was linked to load
 	 * and where it was actually loaded.
 	 */
+	if (output_orig == output)
+		return;
+
 	delta = min_addr - LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR;
 	if (!delta) {
 		debug_putstr("No relocation needed... ");
@@ -299,7 +303,8 @@ static void handle_relocations(void *output, unsigned long output_len)
 #endif
 }
 #else
-static inline void handle_relocations(void *output, unsigned long output_len)
+static inline void handle_relocations(void *output_orig, void *output,
+				      unsigned long output_len)
 { }
 #endif
 
@@ -360,6 +365,8 @@ asmlinkage __visible void *decompress_kernel(void *rmode, memptr heap,
 				  unsigned char *output,
 				  unsigned long output_len)
 {
+	unsigned char *output_orig = output;
+
 	real_mode = rmode;
 
 	sanitize_boot_params(real_mode);
@@ -402,7 +409,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void *decompress_kernel(void *rmode, memptr heap,
 	debug_putstr("\nDecompressing Linux... ");
 	decompress(input_data, input_len, NULL, NULL, output, NULL, error);
 	parse_elf(output);
-	handle_relocations(output, output_len);
+	handle_relocations(output_orig, output, output_len);
 	debug_putstr("done.\nBooting the kernel.\n");
 	return output;
 }
-- 
1.8.5.3

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