Re: [PATCH 0/6] randomize kernel physical address and virtual address separately

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Feb 02 2015 - 11:42:51 EST


On 01/20/2015 07:37 PM, Baoquan He wrote:

Leftover problem:
hpa want to see the physical randomization can cover the whole physical memory. I
checked code and found it's hard to do. Because in arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
an identity mapping of 4G is built and then kaslr and decompressing are done. The #PF
handler solution which he suggested is only available after jump into decompressed
kernel, namely in arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S. I didn't think of a way to do the whole
memory covering for physical address randomization, any suggestion or idea?


Basically, it means adding an IDT and #PF handler to the decompression code. Not really all that complex.

-hpa


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