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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:38:20 -0700
From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Eric Northup <digitaleric@...gle.com>, 
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 
	"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, 
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>, 
	Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...el.com>, Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>, 
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>, Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com>, 
	Julien Tinnes <jln@...gle.com>, Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] x86: kaslr: relocate base offset at boot

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
>> also do not overlap with boot_param, command_line, and initrd.
>>
>> and need to double check setup_header.init_size to make sure bss and
>> etc will not
>> fall into memory hole or reserved area in e820.
>>
>> also may need to setup page table for target position as bootloader may only
>> has ident mapping only for loaded bzImage 64 areas.
>>
>> looks you are trying redo the work for bootloader to pick loaded phys addr.
>
> aslr.S's select_aslr_address uses z_extract_offset as the upper bound.
>

so the decompressed image is not moved high?

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