[PATCH v2 00/29] implement KASLR for ARM

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Wed Sep 6 10:53:09 PDT 2017


* Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org> [170906 10:31]:
> On 6 September 2017 at 18:12, Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> wrote:
> > Kernel image @ 0x81000000 [ 0x000000 - 0x426300 ]
> > ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 84000000
> >    Booting using the fdt blob at 0x84000000
> >    Loading Device Tree to 86feb000, end 86fff2d5 ... OK
> >
> > Starting kernel ...
> >
> > regions.image_size:00e00000
> > regions.pa_start:80000000
> > regions.pa_end:87200000
> > regions.zimage_start:81000000
> > regions.zimage_size:00437320
> > regions.dtb_start:86feb000
> > regions.dtb_size:00012000
> > regions.initrd_start:00000000
> > regions.initrd_size:00000000
> > num:00000028
> > num:00000025
> > *kaslr_offset:05e00000
> > Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
> > Warning: Neither atags nor dtb found
> 
> OK, so in this case, 80000000 + 00e00000 + 05e00000 == 86c00000, which
> is still below the DTB, but apparently, it has corrupted it anyway.
> 
> I will try to figure out what's going on here.

Do you need to have kaslr_offset beyond the uncompressed
kernel size maybe?

> Thanks again for taking the time,

No problem, I'm happy to test these changes.

Regards,

Tony



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