[PATCH] powerpc/32: Stop printing the virtual memory layout

[Christophe Leroy]

Le 05/03/2020 à 16:08, Arvind Sankar a écrit :
> For security, don't display the kernel's virtual memory layout.
> 
> Kees Cook points out:
> "These have been entirely removed on other architectures, so let's
> just do the same for ia32 and remove it unconditionally."
> 
> 071929dbdd86 ("arm64: Stop printing the virtual memory layout")
> 1c31d4e96b8c ("ARM: 8820/1: mm: Stop printing the virtual memory layout")
> 31833332f798 ("m68k/mm: Stop printing the virtual memory layout")
> fd8d0ca25631 ("parisc: Hide virtual kernel memory layout")
> adb1fe9ae2ee ("mm/page_alloc: Remove kernel address exposure in free_reserved_area()")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita at alum.mit.edu>

This patch doesn't apply anymore.

This patch is referenced in https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/390

> ---
>   arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 17 -----------------
>   1 file changed, 17 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
> index ef7b1119b2e2..df2c143b6bf7 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
> @@ -331,23 +331,6 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
>   #endif
>   
>   	mem_init_print_info(NULL);
> -#ifdef CONFIG_PPC32
> -	pr_info("Kernel virtual memory layout:\n");
> -#ifdef CONFIG_KASAN
> -	pr_info("  * 0x%08lx..0x%08lx  : kasan shadow mem\n",
> -		KASAN_SHADOW_START, KASAN_SHADOW_END);
> -#endif
> -	pr_info("  * 0x%08lx..0x%08lx  : fixmap\n", FIXADDR_START, FIXADDR_TOP);
> -#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
> -	pr_info("  * 0x%08lx..0x%08lx  : highmem PTEs\n",
> -		PKMAP_BASE, PKMAP_ADDR(LAST_PKMAP));
> -#endif /* CONFIG_HIGHMEM */
> -	if (ioremap_bot != IOREMAP_TOP)
> -		pr_info("  * 0x%08lx..0x%08lx  : early ioremap\n",
> -			ioremap_bot, IOREMAP_TOP);
> -	pr_info("  * 0x%08lx..0x%08lx  : vmalloc & ioremap\n",
> -		VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END);
> -#endif /* CONFIG_PPC32 */
>   }
>   
>   void free_initmem(void)