[PATCH] Only search page_offset_base when KASLR mm code is compiled in

Baoquan He bhe at redhat.com
Fri Feb 24 02:38:52 PST 2017


Otherwise it will print false positve message as below. So add
a check when do the search.

    "Cannot get kernel page_offset_base symbol address"

Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com>
---
 kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c b/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c
index 88aeee3..b2c1be5 100644
--- a/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c
+++ b/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c
@@ -150,8 +150,6 @@ static int get_kernel_vaddr_and_size(struct kexec_info *UNUSED(info),
 	off_t size;
 	uint32_t elf_flags = 0;
 	uint64_t stext_sym;
-	const unsigned long long pud_mask = ~((1 << 30) - 1);
-	unsigned long long vaddr, lowest_vaddr = 0;
 
 	if (elf_info->machine != EM_X86_64)
 		return 0;
@@ -181,8 +179,11 @@ static int get_kernel_vaddr_and_size(struct kexec_info *UNUSED(info),
 
 	end_phdr = &ehdr.e_phdr[ehdr.e_phnum];
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY
 	/* Search for the real PAGE_OFFSET when KASLR memory randomization
 	 * is enabled */
+	const unsigned long long pud_mask = ~((1 << 30) - 1);
+	unsigned long long vaddr, lowest_vaddr = 0;
 	if (get_kernel_sym("page_offset_base") != 0) {
 		for(phdr = ehdr.e_phdr; phdr != end_phdr; phdr++) {
 			if (phdr->p_type == PT_LOAD) {
@@ -194,6 +195,7 @@ static int get_kernel_vaddr_and_size(struct kexec_info *UNUSED(info),
 		if (lowest_vaddr != 0)
 			elf_info->page_offset = lowest_vaddr;
 	}
+#endif
 
 	/* Traverse through the Elf headers and find the region where
 	 * _stext symbol is located in. That's where kernel is mapped */
-- 
2.5.5




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