Re: [PATCH v4 06/26] x86/boot: Setup memory protection for bzImage code

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 at 13:38, Evgeniy Baskov <baskov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Use previously added code to use 4KB pages for mapping. Map compressed
> and uncompressed kernel with appropriate memory protection attributes.
> For compressed kernel set them up manually. For uncompressed kernel
> used flags specified in ELF header.
>
> Tested-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Baskov <baskov@xxxxxxxxx>
>

This patch breaks the 'nokaslr' command line option (at least with
SeaBIOS) unless I apply the hunk below:


--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
@@ -329,7 +329,8 @@ static size_t parse_elf(void *output, unsigned
long output_len,

        handle_relocations(output, output_len, virt_addr);

-       if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE))
+       if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE) ||
+           cmdline_find_option_bool("nokaslr"))
                goto skip_protect;

        for (i = 0; i < ehdr.e_phnum; i++) {
@@ -481,8 +482,10 @@ asmlinkage __visible void *extract_kernel(void
*rmode, memptr heap,
         * If KASLR is disabled input and output regions may overlap.
         * In this case we need to map region excutable as well.
         */
-       unsigned long map_flags = MAP_ALLOC | MAP_WRITE |
-                       (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE) ? 0 : MAP_EXEC);
+       unsigned long map_flags = MAP_ALLOC | MAP_WRITE;
+       if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE) ||
+           cmdline_find_option_bool("nokaslr"))
+               map_flags |= MAP_EXEC;
        phys_addr = kernel_add_identity_map(phys_addr,
                                            phys_addr + needed_size,
                                            map_flags);