Commit
b4e0409a36 ("x86: check vmlinux limits, 64-bit")
added a check that the size of the 64-bit kernel is less than
KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE.
The check uses (_end - _text), but this is not enough. The initial
PMD used in startup_64() (level2_kernel_pgt) can only map upto
KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE from __START_KERNEL_map, not from _text, and the
modules area (MODULES_VADDR) starts at KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE.
The correct check is what is currently done for 32-bit, since
LOAD_OFFSET is defined appropriately for the two architectures. Just
check (_end - LOAD_OFFSET) against KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE unconditionally.
Note that on 32-bit, the limit is not strict: KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE is not
really used by the main kernel. The higher the kernel is located, the
less the space available for the vmalloc area. However, it is used by
KASLR in the compressed stub to limit the maximum address of the kernel
to a safe value.
Clean up various comments to clarify that despite the name,
KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE is not a limit on the size of the kernel image, but a
limit on the maximum virtual address that the image can occupy.
Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201029161903.2553528-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
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