[PATCH v2] x86, kaslr: Kernel base can be randomized at 0-1G offset.

Dave Young dyoung at redhat.com
Sun Mar 16 23:27:47 EDT 2014


On 03/14/14 at 04:20pm, WANG Chao wrote:
> With kASLR enabled (CONFIG_RANDOMIZED_BASE=y), kernel virtual address
> base is PAGE_OFFSET plus a randomized offset from 0 to 1G.
> 
> Current kexec-tools gets kernel vaddr and size from /proc/kcore. It
> assumes kernel vaddr start/end is within the range [0,512M). If kaslr
> enabled, kernel vaddr start/end will stay at [0+offset, 512M+offset).
> 
> To adapt kaslr, introduce a new macro X86_64_RANDOMIZED_BASE_MAX_OFFSET
> to address the max offset and use this macro to filter out the kernel
> text PT_LOAD from /proc/kcore.
> 
> Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang at redhat.com>
> ---
>  kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c | 3 ++-
>  kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.h | 3 +++
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c b/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c
> index cb19e7d..1e6d3a3 100644
> --- a/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c
> +++ b/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c
> @@ -156,7 +156,8 @@ static int get_kernel_vaddr_and_size(struct kexec_info *UNUSED(info),
>  
>  			/* Look for kernel text mapping header. */
>  			if ((saddr >= X86_64__START_KERNEL_map) &&
> -			    (eaddr <= X86_64__START_KERNEL_map + X86_64_KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE)) {
> +			    (saddr <= X86_64__START_KERNEL_map + X86_64_RANDOMIZE_BASE_MAX_OFFSET) &&
> +			    (eaddr - saddr  < X86_64_KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE)) {
>  				saddr = _ALIGN_DOWN(saddr, X86_64_KERN_VADDR_ALIGN);
>  				elf_info->kern_vaddr_start = saddr;
>  				size = eaddr - saddr;
> diff --git a/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.h b/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.h
> index e68b626..71a09f8 100644
> --- a/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.h
> +++ b/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.h
> @@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ int load_crashdump_segments(struct kexec_info *info, char *mod_cmdline,
>  #define X86_64_PAGE_OFFSET_PRE_2_6_27	0xffff810000000000ULL
>  #define X86_64_PAGE_OFFSET		0xffff880000000000ULL
>  
> +/* kASLR - Kernel base offset could be randomized up to 1G */
> +#define X86_64_RANDOMIZE_BASE_MAX_OFFSET	0x40000000
> +
>  #define X86_64_MAXMEM        		0x3fffffffffffUL
>  
>  /* Kernel text size */

Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>

Thanks
Dave



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