linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 00/12] implement KASLR for powerpc/fsl

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Date:   Wed, 09 Oct 2019 13:46:38 -0500
From:   Scott Wood <oss@...error.net>
To:     Jason Yan <yanaijie@...wei.com>, mpe@...erman.id.au,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, diana.craciun@....com,
        christophe.leroy@....fr, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
        paulus@...ba.org, npiggin@...il.com, keescook@...omium.org,
        kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Cc:     wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        jingxiangfeng@...wei.com, zhaohongjiang@...wei.com,
        thunder.leizhen@...wei.com, yebin10@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/12] implement KASLR for powerpc/fsl_booke/32

On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 16:41 +0800, Jason Yan wrote:
> Hi Scott,
> 
> On 2019/10/9 15:13, Scott Wood wrote:
> > On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 14:10 +0800, Jason Yan wrote:
> > > Hi Scott,
> > > 
> > > Would you please take sometime to test this?
> > > 
> > > Thank you so much.
> > > 
> > > On 2019/9/24 13:52, Jason Yan wrote:
> > > > Hi Scott,
> > > > 
> > > > Can you test v7 to see if it works to load a kernel at a non-zero
> > > > address?
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > 
> > Sorry for the delay.  Here's the output:
> > 
> 
> Thanks for the test.
> 
> > ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 10000000 ...
> >     Image Name:   Linux-5.4.0-rc2-00050-g8ac2cf5b4
> >     Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
> >     Data Size:    7521134 Bytes = 7.2 MiB
> >     Load Address: 04000000
> >     Entry Point:  04000000
> >     Verifying Checksum ... OK
> > ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 1fc00000
> >     Booting using the fdt blob at 0x1fc00000
> >     Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
> >     Loading Device Tree to 07fe0000, end 07fff65c ... OK
> > KASLR: No safe seed for randomizing the kernel base.
> > OF: reserved mem: initialized node qman-fqd, compatible id fsl,qman-fqd
> > OF: reserved mem: initialized node qman-pfdr, compatible id fsl,qman-pfdr
> > OF: reserved mem: initialized node bman-fbpr, compatible id fsl,bman-fbpr
> > Memory CAM mapping: 64/64/64 Mb, residual: 12032Mb
> 
> When boot from 04000000, the max CAM value is 64M. And
> you have a board with 12G memory, CONFIG_LOWMEM_CAM_NUM=3 means only
> 192M memory is mapped and when kernel is randomized at the middle of 
> this 192M memory, we will not have enough continuous memory for node map.
> 
> Can you set CONFIG_LOWMEM_CAM_NUM=8 and see if it works?

OK, that worked.

-Scott