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Date:	Fri, 22 Apr 2016 02:47:06 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Kees Cook <tipbot@...or.com>
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Subject: [tip:x86/boot] x86/KASLR: Warn when KASLR is disabled

Commit-ID:  0f8ede1b8c4cb845c53072d7e49d71ca24a61ced
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/0f8ede1b8c4cb845c53072d7e49d71ca24a61ced
Author:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
AuthorDate: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 13:55:46 -0700
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 10:00:51 +0200

x86/KASLR: Warn when KASLR is disabled

If KASLR is built in but not available at run-time (either due to the
current conflict with hibernation, command-line request, or e820 parsing
failures), announce the state explicitly. To support this, a new "warn"
function is created, based on the existing "error" function.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@...il.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461185746-8017-6-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c |  6 +++---
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c  | 12 +++++++++---
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h  |  1 +
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
index 3ad71a0..8741a6d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
@@ -314,12 +314,12 @@ unsigned char *choose_random_location(unsigned char *input,
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HIBERNATION
 	if (!cmdline_find_option_bool("kaslr")) {
-		debug_putstr("KASLR disabled by default...\n");
+		warn("KASLR disabled: 'kaslr' not on cmdline (hibernation selected).");
 		goto out;
 	}
 #else
 	if (cmdline_find_option_bool("nokaslr")) {
-		debug_putstr("KASLR disabled by cmdline...\n");
+		warn("KASLR disabled: 'nokaslr' on cmdline.");
 		goto out;
 	}
 #endif
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ unsigned char *choose_random_location(unsigned char *input,
 	/* Walk e820 and find a random address. */
 	random_addr = find_random_addr(choice, output_size);
 	if (!random_addr) {
-		debug_putstr("KASLR could not find suitable E820 region...\n");
+		warn("KASLR disabled: could not find suitable E820 region!");
 		goto out;
 	}
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
index eacc855..c57d785 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
@@ -166,11 +166,17 @@ void __puthex(unsigned long value)
 	}
 }
 
-static void error(char *x)
+void warn(char *m)
 {
 	error_putstr("\n\n");
-	error_putstr(x);
-	error_putstr("\n\n -- System halted");
+	error_putstr(m);
+	error_putstr("\n\n");
+}
+
+static void error(char *m)
+{
+	warn(m);
+	error_putstr(" -- System halted");
 
 	while (1)
 		asm("hlt");
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h
index 9887e0d..e75f6cf 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ extern memptr free_mem_end_ptr;
 extern struct boot_params *boot_params;
 void __putstr(const char *s);
 void __puthex(unsigned long value);
+void warn(char *m);
 #define error_putstr(__x)  __putstr(__x)
 #define error_puthex(__x)  __puthex(__x)