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x86/boot: Clean up pointer casting
authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Thu, 5 May 2016 22:13:46 +0000 (15:13 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fri, 6 May 2016 07:00:59 +0000 (09:00 +0200)
commit5528e22363f39546ed14316f771af1528b9e0c88
tree865ac4b617977c4cf98688135ccc29a082afdccf
parent0c8cd0f8d2db527669af46de4a4a59e269d8a806
x86/boot: Clean up pointer casting

Currently extract_kernel() defines the input and output buffer pointers
as "unsigned char *" since that's effectively what they are. It passes
these to the decompressor routine and to the ELF parser, which both
logically deal with buffer pointers too. There is some casting ("unsigned
long") done to validate the numerical value of the pointers, but it is
relatively limited.

However, choose_random_location() operates almost exclusively on the
numerical representation of these pointers, so it ended up carrying
a lot of "unsigned long" casts. With the future physical/virtual split
these casts were going to multiply, so this attempts to solve the
problem by doing all the casting in choose_random_location()'s entry
and return instead of through-out the code. Adjusts argument names to
be more meaningful, and changes one us of "choice" to "output" to make
the future physical/virtual split more clear (i.e. "choice" should be
strictly a function return value and not used as an intermediate).

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: lasse.collin@tukaani.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462486436-3707-2-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h