Patch "x86/boot/64: Verify alignment of the LOAD segment" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/boot/64: Verify alignment of the LOAD segment

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86-boot-64-verify-alignment-of-the-load-segment.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From c55b8550fa57ba4f5e507be406ff9fc2845713e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:08:11 -0700
Subject: x86/boot/64: Verify alignment of the LOAD segment

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%2ByKNhZw@mail.gmail.com
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
@@ -366,6 +366,10 @@ 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);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hjl.tools@gmail.com are

queue-4.4/x86-boot-64-verify-alignment-of-the-load-segment.patch
queue-4.4/x86-build-64-force-the-linker-to-use-2mb-page-size.patch