kexec loading fails without kernel code address in /proc/iomem
Dave Young
dyoung at redhat.com
Thu Apr 14 05:03:21 PDT 2016
Hi, Linus
Zhengyu Zhang <zhezhang at redhat.com> found a kexec failure caused by below commit:
commit c4004b02f8e5b9ce357a0bb1641756cc86962664
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed Apr 6 13:45:07 2016 -0700
x86: remove the kernel code/data/bss resources from /proc/iomem
Let's see if anybody even notices. I doubt anybody uses this, and it
does expose addresses that should be randomized, so let's just remove
the code. It's old and traditional, and it used to be cute, but we
should have removed this long ago.
If it turns out anybody notices and this breaks something, we'll have to
revert this, and maybe we'll end up using other approaches instead
(using %pK or similar). But removing unnecessary code is always the
preferred option.
Noted-by: Emrah Demir <ed at abdsec.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Probably we should revert the commit and do it in other way ..
Thanks
Dave
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