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From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
To: Marcelo Henrique Cerri <marcelo.cerri@canonical.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Joy Latten <joy.latten@canonical.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390/decompressor: fix initrd corruption caused by bss clear
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 09:41:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170315084127.GC6039@osiris> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1489418098-1564-1-git-send-email-marcelo.cerri@canonical.com>

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:14:58PM -0300, Marcelo Henrique Cerri wrote:
> Reorder the operations in decompress_kernel() to ensure initrd is moved
> to a safe location before the bss section is zeroed.
> 
> During decompression bss can overlap with the initrd and this can
> corrupt the initrd contents depending on the size of the compressed
> kernel (which affects where the initrd is placed by the bootloader) and
> the size of the bss section of the decompressor.
> 
> Also use the correct initrd size when checking for overlaps with
> parmblock.
> 
> Fixes: 06c0dd72aea3 ([S390] fix boot failures with compressed kernels)
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Reviewed-by: Joy Latten <joy.latten@canonical.com>
> Reviewed-by: Vineetha HariPai <vineetha.hari.pai@canonical.com>
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Henrique Cerri <marcelo.cerri@canonical.com>
> ---
>  arch/s390/boot/compressed/misc.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Applied. Thank you!

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-15  8:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-13 15:14 [PATCH] s390/decompressor: fix initrd corruption caused by bss clear Marcelo Henrique Cerri
2017-03-13 15:27 ` Heiko Carstens
2017-03-15  8:41 ` Heiko Carstens [this message]

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