linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/boot] x86/KASLR: Fix boot crash with certain memory configurations

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] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20160710151646.GB2512@x1.redhat.com>
Date:	Sun, 10 Jul 2016 23:16:46 +0800
From:	Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	peterz@...radead.org, hpa@...or.com, keescook@...omium.org,
	xiaolong.ye@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/boot] x86/KASLR: Fix boot crash with certain memory
 configurations

On 07/10/16 at 01:24pm, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Ingo,
> > 
> > I am sorry the previous post didn't contain formal patch log. I made a new one 
> > as below. The boot crash could not only happen with certain memory. Because of 
> > this code bug the regions which need be avoided like the zipped kernel with its 
> > unzipping running code, initrd, kernel command line could be corrupted if 
> > mem_avoid_overlap() can't find the overlap region with the lowest address. But 
> > it's very lucky that Xiaolong's system which has only 300M memory can always 
> > reproduce it. I checked the boog log and found on his system no any other slot 
> > can be chosen except for the original one. If we have a system with large memory 
> > it may not be easy to hit it, at least with low probability since there are many 
> > candidate slots.
> 
> So if it's just a better changelog that what I wrote I wouldn't rebase the commit: 
> there's other commits on top of the fix meanwhile. Should a rebase become 
> necessary at a later point I'll update it with your extended changelog.

Yes, it's just a changelog update, no need to rebase it now.

Thanks
Baoquan