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Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 19:25:14 +0100
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
To: Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
Cc: "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>, Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>,
Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>, Dave Martin <dave.martin@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/29] implement KASLR for ARM
On 6 September 2017 at 19:22, Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com> wrote:
> * Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org> [170906 11:05]:
>> On 6 September 2017 at 18:53, Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com> wrote:
>> > * Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org> [170906 10:31]:
>> >> On 6 September 2017 at 18:12, Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com> wrote:
>> >> > Kernel image @ 0x81000000 [ 0x000000 - 0x426300 ]
>> >> > ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 84000000
>> >> > Booting using the fdt blob at 0x84000000
>> >> > Loading Device Tree to 86feb000, end 86fff2d5 ... OK
>> >> >
>> >> > Starting kernel ...
>> >> >
>> >> > regions.image_size:00e00000
>> >> > regions.pa_start:80000000
>> >> > regions.pa_end:87200000
>> >> > regions.zimage_start:81000000
>> >> > regions.zimage_size:00437320
>> >> > regions.dtb_start:86feb000
>> >> > regions.dtb_size:00012000
>> >> > regions.initrd_start:00000000
>> >> > regions.initrd_size:00000000
>> >> > num:00000028
>> >> > num:00000025
>> >> > *kaslr_offset:05e00000
>> >> > Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
>> >> > Warning: Neither atags nor dtb found
>> >>
>> >> OK, so in this case, 80000000 + 00e00000 + 05e00000 == 86c00000, which
>> >> is still below the DTB, but apparently, it has corrupted it anyway.
>> >>
>> >> I will try to figure out what's going on here.
>> >
>> > Do you need to have kaslr_offset beyond the uncompressed
>> > kernel size maybe?
>> >
>>
>> I think the problem is in the rounding of region.pa_start.
>>
>> I have now changed this to
>>
>> regions.image_size = image_base % SZ_128M + round_up(image_size, SZ_2M);
>> regions.pa_start = round_down(image_base, SZ_128M);
> ...
>
>> I have updated my arm-kaslr-v3 with all the fixes from this discussion
>> (and more)
>
> Looks like your branch at commit 5221c86ad2e7 still failed
> after boot attempt #4, see below. Is that the right commit?
>
It should be, yes.
> 8< -----------------
> regions.zimage_size:004379e8
> regions.dtb_start:86feb000
> regions.dtb_size:00012000
> regions.initrd_start:00000000
> regions.initrd_size:00000000
> count:00000028
> num:00000025
> *kaslr_offset:05e00000
> Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
> Warning: Neither atags nor dtb found
Did you capture the image_size and pa_start/pa_end as well?
In any case, this is the exact same offset that failed before, so the
rounding of pa_start wasn't the problem.
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