linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] x86, kaslr: Use init_size instead of run

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Date:	Fri, 13 Mar 2015 19:47:01 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-efi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
	Junjie Mao <eternal.n08@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] x86, kaslr: Use init_size instead of run_size

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 5:27 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> * Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
>
>> commit e6023367d779 ("x86, kaslr: Prevent .bss from overlaping initrd")
>> introduced one run_size for kaslr.
>> We should use real runtime size (include copy/decompress) aka init_size.
>
> Why, what happens if we don't change this?

While trying to update change log, found we still need to keep this run_size.
otherwise kaslr will find not needed big size of init_size instead of
max(output_len, run_size).

will refresh the patchset.

Thanks

Yinghai
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