Kexec command line length
Neil Horman
nhorman at tuxdriver.com
Mon Jan 28 15:53:24 EST 2008
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 03:20:41PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> >
> > struct x86_linux_header {
> > @@ -206,7 +210,10 @@ struct x86_linux_header {
> > #else
> > uint32_t kernel_alignment; /* 0x230 */
> > uint8_t relocatable_kernel; /* 0x234 */
> > - uint8_t tail[32*1024 - 0x235]; /* 0x230 */
> > + uint32_t cmdline_size; /* 0x235 */
> > + uint32_t hardware_subarch; /* 0x239 */
> > + uint64_t hardware_subarch_data; /* 0x23D */
>
> We need a padding of 3 bytes here too between relocatable kernel and
> cmdline_size, in the same way as x86_linux_param_header?
>
Oh, good catch, yes we do need that. I expect it passed my testing because the
garbage that wound up in cmdline_size was big enough to pass the check in
do_bzImage_load.
New patch, same summary as before, with the above correction
Regards
Neil
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com>
include/x86/x86-linux.h | 20 ++++++++++++++------
kexec/arch/i386/kexec-bzImage.c | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/x86/x86-linux.h b/include/x86/x86-linux.h
index afe66bd..6e4f984 100644
--- a/include/x86/x86-linux.h
+++ b/include/x86/x86-linux.h
@@ -144,18 +144,22 @@ struct x86_linux_param_header {
/* 2.04+ */
uint32_t kernel_alignment; /* 0x230 */
uint8_t relocatable_kernel; /* 0x234 */
- uint8_t reserved15[0x2d0 - 0x235]; /* 0x230 */
+ uint8_t reserved15[3]; /* 0x235 */
+ uint32_t cmdline_size; /* 0x238 */
+ uint32_t hardware_subarch; /* 0x23C */
+ uint64_t hardware_subarch_data; /* 0x240 */
+ uint8_t reserved16[0x2d0 - 0x248]; /* 0x248 */
#endif
struct e820entry e820_map[E820MAX]; /* 0x2d0 */
/* 0x550 */
-#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 256
+#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 2048
};
struct x86_linux_faked_param_header {
struct x86_linux_param_header hdr; /* 0x00 */
- uint8_t reserved16[688]; /* 0x550 */
- uint8_t command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE]; /* 0x800 */
- uint8_t reserved17[1792]; /* 0x900 - 0x1000 */
+ uint8_t reserved17[0xab0]; /* 0x550 */
+ uint8_t command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE]; /* 0x1000 */
+ uint8_t reserved18[0x200]; /* 0x1800 - 0x2000 */
};
struct x86_linux_header {
@@ -206,7 +210,11 @@ struct x86_linux_header {
#else
uint32_t kernel_alignment; /* 0x230 */
uint8_t relocatable_kernel; /* 0x234 */
- uint8_t tail[32*1024 - 0x235]; /* 0x230 */
+ uint8_t reserved6[3]; /* 0x235 */
+ uint32_t cmdline_size; /* 0x238 */
+ uint32_t hardware_subarch; /* 0x23C */
+ uint64_t hardware_subarch_data; /* 0x240 */
+ uint8_t tail[32*1024 - 0x248]; /* 0x248 */
#endif
} PACKED;
diff --git a/kexec/arch/i386/kexec-bzImage.c b/kexec/arch/i386/kexec-bzImage.c
index 8fde799..4f2a294 100644
--- a/kexec/arch/i386/kexec-bzImage.c
+++ b/kexec/arch/i386/kexec-bzImage.c
@@ -134,6 +134,13 @@ int do_bzImage_load(struct kexec_info *info,
return -1;
}
+ if (setup_header.protocol_version >= 0x0206) {
+ if (command_line_len > setup_header.cmdline_size) {
+ dbgprintf("Kernel command line too long for kernel!\n");
+ return -1;
+ }
+ }
+
if (setup_header.protocol_version >= 0x0205) {
relocatable_kernel = setup_header.relocatable_kernel;
dbgprintf("bzImage is relocatable\n");
--
/****************************************************
* Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com>
* Software Engineer, Red Hat
****************************************************/
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