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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 15:58:41 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 07/22] x86: relocate_kernel - Adapt assembly for PIE support
On 07/18/17 15:33, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> Change the assembly code to use only relative references of symbols for the
> kernel to be PIE compatible.
>
> Position Independent Executable (PIE) support will allow to extended the
> KASLR randomization range below the -2G memory limit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
> index 98111b38ebfd..da817d1628ac 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
> @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ identity_mapped:
> movq %rax, %cr3
> lea PAGE_SIZE(%r8), %rsp
> call swap_pages
> - movq $virtual_mapped, %rax
> + leaq virtual_mapped(%rip), %rax
> pushq %rax
> ret
>
This is completely wrong. The whole point is that %rip here is on an
identity-mapped page, which means that its offset to the actual symbol
is ill-defined.
The use of pushq/ret to do an indirect jump is bizarre, though, instead of:
pushq %r8
ret
one ought to simply do
jmpq *%r8
I think the author of this code was confused by the fact that we have to
use this construct to do a *far* jump.
There are some other very bizarre constructs in this file, that I can
only assume comes from clumsy porting from 32 bits, for example:
call 1f
1:
popq %r8
subq $(1b - relocate_kernel), %r8
... instead of the much simpler ...
leaq relocate_kernel(%rip), %r8
With this value in %r8 anyway, you can simply do:
leaq (virtual_mapped - relocate_kernel)(%r8), %rax
jmpq *%rax
This patchset scares me. There seems to be a lot of places where you
have not been very aware of what is actually happening in the code, nor
have done research about how the ABIs actually work and affect things.
Sorry.
-hpa
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