Re: [PATCH 5/8] x86/kaslr: Simplify __process_mem_region

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jul 28 2020 - 06:57:33 EST



* Arvind Sankar <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Get rid of unnecessary temporary variables and redundant tests in
> __process_mem_region.
>
> Fix one minor bug: in case of an overlap, the beginning of the region
> should be used even if it is exactly image_size, not just strictly
> larger.
>
> Change type of minimum/image_size arguments in process_mem_region to
> unsigned long. These actually can never be above 4G (even on x86_64),
> and they're unsigned long in every other function except this one.

Please split this up into 3 separate patches. The KASLR code is
difficult to debug, so we want to approach changes as conservatively
as possible. This is also reinforced by the fact that this patch was
buggy in v1 already.

Thanks,

Ingo