From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: kaslr: fix breakage with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 19:26:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161014182637.GF6534@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKv+Gu-sdgkoQvbpgHXZmDyxg6NTGJpC+hsqzdbwTkny+TeqfA@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 07:23:15PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 13 October 2016 at 20:59, Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> > Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >>
> >> As it turns out, the KASLR code breaks CONFIG_MODVERSIONS, since the
> >> kcrctab has an absolute address field that is relocated at runtime
> >> when the kernel offset is randomized.
> >>
> >> This has been fixed already for PowerPC in the past, so simply wire up
> >> the existing code dealing with this issue.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel<ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> >
> >
> > Tested-by: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
> >
>
> Thanks. I will resend this with a fixes: tag and a better description
Feel free, but I already queued it locally and added the Fixes tag myself.
I'm just waiting for Lorenzo to post a fix to the ACPI NUMA stuff, then
I'll send these two up together next week.
Will
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-14 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-13 16:42 [PATCH] arm64: kaslr: fix breakage with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y Ard Biesheuvel
2016-10-13 19:59 ` Timur Tabi
2016-10-14 18:23 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-10-14 18:26 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2016-10-14 19:53 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-10-17 14:48 ` Will Deacon
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