4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com
commit 7e09ac27f43b382f5fe9bb7c7f4c465ece1f8a23 upstream.
Commit in Fixes added the "NOLOAD" attribute to the .brk section as a "failsafe" measure.
Unfortunately, this leads to the linker no longer covering the .brk section in a program header, resulting in the kernel loader not knowing that the memory for the .brk section must be reserved.
This has led to crashes when loading the kernel as PV dom0 under Xen, but other scenarios could be hit by the same problem (e.g. in case an uncompressed kernel is used and the initrd is placed directly behind it).
So drop the "NOLOAD" attribute. This has been verified to correctly cover the .brk section by a program header of the resulting ELF file.
Fixes: e32683c6f7d2 ("x86/mm: Fix RESERVE_BRK() for older binutils") Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220630071441.28576-4-jgross@suse.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ SECTIONS }
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); - .brk (NOLOAD) : AT(ADDR(.brk) - LOAD_OFFSET) { + .brk : AT(ADDR(.brk) - LOAD_OFFSET) { __brk_base = .; . += 64 * 1024; /* 64k alignment slop space */ *(.bss..brk) /* areas brk users have reserved */