Re: [PATCH v2 RESEND] x86/kaslr: Ingest nokaslr to avoid passing it to init process

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 03:02:34PM +0000, Nir Lichtman wrote:
> Yes indeed, when I made an initramfs with cpio and put a static bash build
> as ./init, It got the nokaslr as the first argument and crashed, this causes
> a general panic since the init process crashed.
> 
> This behavior of passing unrecognized params to the init process is
> documented in the kernel docs, and also in the corresponding warning
> message.

So you must be doing something special because all of our systems are running
fine with "nokaslr". As said, stuff would be breaking left'n'right if this
were really a problem.

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    Boris.

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