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[RFC,v3,05/27] x86: relocate_kernel - Adapt assembly for PIE support

Message ID 20171004212003.28296-6-thgarnie@google.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Thomas Garnier Oct. 4, 2017, 9:19 p.m. UTC 
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.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
index 307d3bac5f04..2ecbdcbe985b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/relocate_kernel_64.S
@@ -200,9 +200,11 @@  identity_mapped:
 	movq	%rax, %cr3
 	lea	PAGE_SIZE(%r8), %rsp
 	call	swap_pages
-	movq	$virtual_mapped, %rax
-	pushq	%rax
-	ret
+	jmp	*virtual_mapped_addr(%rip)
+
+	/* Absolute value for PIE support */
+virtual_mapped_addr:
+	.quad virtual_mapped
 
 virtual_mapped:
 	movq	RSP(%r8), %rsp