From: Matt Fleming Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 21:09:30 +0000 Subject: [1/5] x86/mm: Page align the '_end' symbol to avoid pfn conversion bugs Origin: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi.git/commit?id=21cdb6b568435738cc0b303b2b3b82742396310c Ingo noted that if we can guarantee _end is aligned to PAGE_SIZE we can automatically avoid bugs along the lines of, size = _end - _text >> PAGE_SHIFT which is missing a call to PFN_ALIGN(). The EFI mixed mode contains this bug, for example. _text is already aligned to PAGE_SIZE through the use of LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR, and the BSS and BRK sections are explicitly aligned in the linker script, so it makes sense to align _end to match. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming Acked-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Sai Praneeth Prakhya Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Toshi Kani Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1448658575-17029-2-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 74e4bf11f562..4f1994257a18 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -325,6 +325,7 @@ SECTIONS __brk_limit = .; } + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); _end = .; STABS_DEBUG