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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2025-11-26 10:55:17 +0100
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2025-11-27 09:32:47 +0100
commitd62e4f2b9542d25d183f068033558e87e81a00a8 (patch)
tree5c44911816cba32ed0a96bc0282f1ca650c75b87 /lib
parent860238af7a3348225de228dc0f33a7d631638333 (diff)
x86/bug: Fix BUG_FORMAT vs KASLR
Encoding a relative NULL pointer doesn't work for KASLR, when the whole kernel image gets shifted, the __bug_table and the target string get shifted by the same amount and the relative offset is preserved. However when the target is an absolute 0 value and the __bug_table gets moved about, the end result in a pointer equivalent to kaslr_offset(), not NULL. Notably, this will generate SHN_UNDEF relocations, and Ard would really like to not have those at all. Use the empty string to denote no-string. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/bug.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/bug.c b/lib/bug.c
index 581a66b88c5c..edd9041f89f3 100644
--- a/lib/bug.c
+++ b/lib/bug.c
@@ -144,7 +144,17 @@ static const char *bug_get_format(struct bug_entry *bug)
const char *format = NULL;
#ifdef HAVE_ARCH_BUG_FORMAT
#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS
- format = (const char *)&bug->format_disp + bug->format_disp;
+ /*
+ * Allow an architecture to:
+ * - relative encode NULL (difficult vs KASLR);
+ * - use a literal 0 (there are no valid objects inside
+ * the __bug_table itself to refer to after all);
+ * - use an empty string.
+ */
+ if (bug->format_disp)
+ format = (const char *)&bug->format_disp + bug->format_disp;
+ if (format && format[0] == '\0')
+ format = NULL;
#else
format = bug->format;
#endif