[PATCH] arm64: Fix Kconfig dependencies for RANDOMIZE_BASE
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue Jul 26 10:53:51 PDT 2016
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 06:45:56PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:16:55AM -0700, Jeff Vander Stoep wrote:
> > Selecting CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y and CONFIG_MODULES=n causes a
> > build error due to dependencies on modules. This patch makes KASLR
> > module config options dependent on CONFIG_MODULES=y.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv at google.com>
> > ---
> > arch/arm64/Kconfig | 3 ++-
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> > index 7e23f95..c9eff79 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> > @@ -891,7 +891,6 @@ config RELOCATABLE
> >
> > config RANDOMIZE_BASE
> > bool "Randomize the address of the kernel image"
> > - select ARM64_MODULE_PLTS
> > select RELOCATABLE
> > help
> > Randomizes the virtual address at which the kernel image is
>
> I thought we need the module PLTs once we randomize the kernel base,
> independent of whether we randomize the modules base or not.
Looking at the code, I think we don't really need the PLTs when the
modules are randomised together with the kernel image. So I think your
original patch is fine.
> Fixes: f80fb3a3d508 ("arm64: add support for kernel ASLR")
> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # 4.6+
I'll add these myself. Unless Ard has any objections, I'll queue this
for 4.8.
Thanks.
--
Catalin
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