On Wed 2018-05-23 12:54:03, 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.
What testing did this get?
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_64.S
> b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_64.S
> index 50b8ed0317a3..472659c0f811 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_64.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_64.S
> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
> * Hooray, we are in Long 64-bit mode (but still running in low memory)
> */
> ENTRY(wakeup_long64)
> - movq saved_magic, %rax
> + movq saved_magic(%rip), %rax
> movq $0x123456789abcdef0, %rdx
> cmpq %rdx, %rax
> jne bogus_64_magic
Because, as comment says, this is rather tricky code.
Pavel
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