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| From | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: KASLR causes intermittent boot failures on some systems |
| Date | 2017-04-10 20:20 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <tuM4W-4ll-15@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <ttDn3-8qV-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <ttJC9-4GN-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <tuJTu-2D4-73@gated-at.bofh.it> |
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On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 8:49 AM, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> wrote:
> Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 7:41 AM, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> commit 021182e52fe01 ("x86/mm: Enable KASLR for physical mapping memory
>>> regions") causes some of my systems with persistent memory (whether real
>>> or emulated) to fail to boot with a couple of different crash
>>> signatures. The first signature is a NMI watchdog lockup of all but 1
>>> cpu, which causes much difficulty in extracting useful information from
>>> the console. The second variant is an invalid paging request, listed
>>> below.
>>
>> Just to rule out some of the stuff in the boot path, does booting with
>> "nokaslr" solve this? (i.e. I want to figure out if this is from some
>> of the rearrangements done that are exposed under that commit, or if
>> it is genuinely the randomization that is killing the systems...)
>
> Adding "nokaslr" to the boot line does indeed make the problem go away.
Are you booting with a memmap= flag?
-Kees
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Kees Cook
Pixel Security
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Re: KASLR causes intermittent boot failures on some systems Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> - 2017-04-10 18:00 +0200
Re: KASLR causes intermittent boot failures on some systems Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-04-10 20:20 +0200
Re: KASLR causes intermittent boot failures on some systems Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> - 2017-04-10 20:30 +0200
Re: KASLR causes intermittent boot failures on some systems Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-04-10 21:10 +0200
Re: KASLR causes intermittent boot failures on some systems Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> - 2017-04-10 21:20 +0200
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