linux-kernel - [002/156] decompress: fix new decompressor for PIC

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20100330224722.089745293@linux.site>
Date:	Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:40:36 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>,
	Alain Knaff <alain@...ff.lu>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: [002/156] decompress: fix new decompressor for PIC

2.6.33-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>

commit 5ceaa2f39bfa73c4398cd01e78f1c3ebde3d3383 upstream.

The ARM kernel decompressor wants to be able to relocate r/w data
independently from the rest of the image, and we do this by ensuring that
r/w data has global visibility.  Define STATIC_RW_DATA to be empty to
achieve this.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@...ff.lu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

--- a/include/linux/decompress/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/decompress/mm.h
@@ -14,11 +14,21 @@
 
 /* Code active when included from pre-boot environment: */
 
+/*
+ * Some architectures want to ensure there is no local data in their
+ * pre-boot environment, so that data can arbitarily relocated (via
+ * GOT references).  This is achieved by defining STATIC_RW_DATA to
+ * be null.
+ */
+#ifndef STATIC_RW_DATA
+#define STATIC_RW_DATA static
+#endif
+
 /* A trivial malloc implementation, adapted from
  *  malloc by Hannu Savolainen 1993 and Matthias Urlichs 1994
  */
-static unsigned long malloc_ptr;
-static int malloc_count;
+STATIC_RW_DATA unsigned long malloc_ptr;
+STATIC_RW_DATA int malloc_count;
 
 static void *malloc(int size)
 {


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/