Re: [PATCH] x86, kaslr: Prevent .bss from overlaping initrd

[Mika PenttilÃ]

> When choosing a random address, the current implementation does not take into
> account the reversed space for .bss and .brk sections. Thus the relocated kernel
> may overlap other components in memory, e.g. the initrd image:

initrd should be included in the avoid arrays already, and bss is
included in the output_size

for choose_kernel_location(). So something else is going on?

--Mika

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Mika PenttilÃ
<mika.j.penttila@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> When choosing a random address, the current implementation does not take
>> into
>> account the reversed space for .bss and .brk sections. Thus the relocated
>> kernel
>> may overlap other components in memory, e.g. the initrd image:
>
> initrd should be included in the avoid arrays already, and bss is included
> in the output_size
>
> for choose_kernel_location(). So something else is going on?
>
> --Mika
>
>
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