Re: [PATCH] arm64: kaslr: Reserve size of ARM64_MEMSTART_ALIGN in linear region

From: Yueyi Li
Date: Tue Jan 15 2019 - 22:37:43 EST


OK, thanks. But seems this mail be ignored, do i need re-sent the patch?

On 2018/12/26 21:49, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Dec 2018 at 03:30, Yueyi Li <liyueyi@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Ard,
>>
>>
>> On 2018/12/24 17:45, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>>> Does the following change fix your issue as well?
>>>
>>> index 9b432d9fcada..9dcf0ff75a11 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
>>> @@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ void __init arm64_memblock_init(void)
>>> * memory spans, randomize the linear region as well.
>>> */
>>> if (memstart_offset_seed > 0 && range >= ARM64_MEMSTART_ALIGN) {
>>> - range = range / ARM64_MEMSTART_ALIGN + 1;
>>> + range /= ARM64_MEMSTART_ALIGN;
>>> memstart_addr -= ARM64_MEMSTART_ALIGN *
>>> ((range * memstart_offset_seed) >> 16);
>>> }
>> Yes, it can fix this also. I just think modify the first *range*
>> calculation would be easier to grasp, what do you think?
>>
> I don't think there is a difference, to be honest, but I will leave it
> up to the maintainers to decide which approach they prefer.