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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 22:21:46 -0700 From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com> To: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@...me> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>, Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Jinyang He <hejinyang@...ngson.cn>, Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>, Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@...s.com>, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com Subject: Re: [PATCH mips-fixes] MIPS: relocatable: fix possible boot hangup with KASLR enabled On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 02:21:05PM +0000, Alexander Lobakin wrote: > LLVM-built Linux triggered a boot hangup with KASLR enabled. > > arch/mips/kernel/relocate.c:get_random_boot() uses linux_banner, > which is a string constant, as a random seed, but accesses it > as an array of unsigned long (in rotate_xor()). > When the address of linux_banner is not aligned to sizeof(long), > such access emits unaligned access exception and hangs the kernel. > > Use PTR_ALIGN() to align input address to sizeof(long) and also > align down the input length to prevent possible access-beyond-end. > > Fixes: 405bc8fd12f5 ("MIPS: Kernel: Implement KASLR using CONFIG_RELOCATABLE") > Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # 4.7+ > Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@...me> Apologies for not being familiar enough with the issue to give a review but I did reproduce the hang that the commit mentions with malta_kvm_guest_defconfig + CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y + CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y and this patch does resolve it so: Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com> > --- > arch/mips/kernel/relocate.c | 10 ++++++++-- > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/relocate.c b/arch/mips/kernel/relocate.c > index 47aeb3350a76..0e365b7c742d 100644 > --- a/arch/mips/kernel/relocate.c > +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/relocate.c > @@ -187,8 +187,14 @@ static int __init relocate_exception_table(long offset) > static inline __init unsigned long rotate_xor(unsigned long hash, > const void *area, size_t size) > { > - size_t i; > - unsigned long *ptr = (unsigned long *)area; > + const typeof(hash) *ptr = PTR_ALIGN(area, sizeof(hash)); > + size_t diff, i; > + > + diff = (void *)ptr - area; > + if (unlikely(size < diff + sizeof(hash))) > + return hash; > + > + size = ALIGN_DOWN(size - diff, sizeof(hash)); > > for (i = 0; i < size / sizeof(hash); i++) { > /* Rotate by odd number of bits and XOR. */ > -- > 2.30.0 > >
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