[PATCH stable 6.6.y] arm64: kaslr: fix nokaslr cmdline parsing

Chen Ridong chenridong at huaweicloud.com
Tue Jun 3 05:52:33 PDT 2025


From: Chen Ridong <chenridong at huawei.com>

Currently, when the command line contains "nokaslrxxx", it was incorrectly
treated as a request to disable KASLR virtual memory. However, the behavior
is different from physical address handling.

This issue exists before the commit af73b9a2dd39 ("arm64: kaslr: Use
feature override instead of parsing the cmdline again"). This patch fixes
the parsing logic for the 'nokaslr' command line argument. Only the exact
strings, 'nokaslr', will disable KASLR. Other inputs such as 'xxnokaslr',
'xxnokaslrxx', or 'xxnokaslr=xx' will not disable KASLR.

Fixes: f80fb3a3d508 ("arm64: add support for kernel ASLR")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # <= v6.6
Signed-off-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong at huawei.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/pi/kaslr_early.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/pi/kaslr_early.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/pi/kaslr_early.c
index 17bff6e399e4..731d0a3f1a89 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/pi/kaslr_early.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/pi/kaslr_early.c
@@ -35,9 +35,14 @@ static char *__strstr(const char *s1, const char *s2)
 static bool cmdline_contains_nokaslr(const u8 *cmdline)
 {
 	const u8 *str;
+	size_t len = strlen("nokaslr");
+	const char *after = cmdline + len;
 
 	str = __strstr(cmdline, "nokaslr");
-	return str == cmdline || (str > cmdline && *(str - 1) == ' ');
+	if ((str == cmdline || (str > cmdline && *(str - 1) == ' ')) &&
+	    (*after == ' ' || *after == '\0'))
+		return true;
+	return false;
 }
 
 static bool is_kaslr_disabled_cmdline(void *fdt)
-- 
2.34.1




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