4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
commit c55b8550fa57ba4f5e507be406ff9fc2845713e8 upstream.
Since the x86-64 kernel must be aligned to 2MB, refuse to boot the kernel if the alignment of the LOAD segment isn't a multiple of 2MB.
Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com Cc: Andy Shevchenko andy.shevchenko@gmail.com Cc: Eric Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com Cc: H. Peter Anvin hpa@zytor.com Cc: Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com Cc: Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAMe9rOrR7xSJgUfiCoZLuqWUwymRxXPoGBW38%2BpN%3D9g%2B... Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c @@ -309,6 +309,10 @@ static void parse_elf(void *output)
switch (phdr->p_type) { case PT_LOAD: +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 + if ((phdr->p_align % 0x200000) != 0) + error("Alignment of LOAD segment isn't multiple of 2MB"); +#endif #ifdef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE dest = output; dest += (phdr->p_paddr - LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR);