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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2014-09-11 09:19:31 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-09-19 13:04:29 +0200
commit0cacbfbeb5077b63d5d3cf6df88b14ac12ad584b (patch)
tree9bb11c6c1601404990f7ed17b3573c4d155b38f3 /arch/x86
parent43657ffb79eba5234333d8657457774c0d3bff46 (diff)
downloadlinux-0cacbfbeb5077b63d5d3cf6df88b14ac12ad584b.tar.gz
x86/kaslr: Avoid the setup_data area when picking location
The KASLR location-choosing logic needs to avoid the setup_data
list memory areas as well. Without this, it would be possible to
have the ASLR position stomp on the memory, ultimately causing
the boot to fail.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140911161931.GA12001@www.outflux.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/boot/compressed/aslr.c15
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/aslr.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/aslr.c
index fc6091abedb7..d39189ba7f8e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/aslr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/aslr.c
@@ -183,12 +183,27 @@ static void mem_avoid_init(unsigned long input, unsigned long input_size,
 static bool mem_avoid_overlap(struct mem_vector *img)
 {
 	int i;
+	struct setup_data *ptr;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < MEM_AVOID_MAX; i++) {
 		if (mem_overlaps(img, &mem_avoid[i]))
 			return true;
 	}
 
+	/* Avoid all entries in the setup_data linked list. */
+	ptr = (struct setup_data *)(unsigned long)real_mode->hdr.setup_data;
+	while (ptr) {
+		struct mem_vector avoid;
+
+		avoid.start = (u64)ptr;
+		avoid.size = sizeof(*ptr) + ptr->len;
+
+		if (mem_overlaps(img, &avoid))
+			return true;
+
+		ptr = (struct setup_data *)(unsigned long)ptr->next;
+	}
+
 	return false;
 }