From 06fd365d6957a87daa5cd88c8fc60bd488ae5502 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Juergen Gross Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 09:14:41 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] x86: Fix .brk attribute in linker script commit 7e09ac27f43b382f5fe9bb7c7f4c465ece1f8a23 upstream. Commit in Fixes added the "NOLOAD" attribute to the .brk section as a "failsafe" measure. Unfortunately, this leads to the linker no longer covering the .brk section in a program header, resulting in the kernel loader not knowing that the memory for the .brk section must be reserved. This has led to crashes when loading the kernel as PV dom0 under Xen, but other scenarios could be hit by the same problem (e.g. in case an uncompressed kernel is used and the initrd is placed directly behind it). So drop the "NOLOAD" attribute. This has been verified to correctly cover the .brk section by a program header of the resulting ELF file. Fixes: e32683c6f7d2 ("x86/mm: Fix RESERVE_BRK() for older binutils") Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220630071441.28576-4-jgross@suse.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 7e12b7d93b72..20d09355c9e0 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ SECTIONS } . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); - .brk (NOLOAD) : AT(ADDR(.brk) - LOAD_OFFSET) { + .brk : AT(ADDR(.brk) - LOAD_OFFSET) { __brk_base = .; . += 64 * 1024; /* 64k alignment slop space */ *(.bss..brk) /* areas brk users have reserved */