x86/boot/compressed: Avoid duplicate malloc() implementations
The early malloc() and free() implementation in include/linux/decompress/mm.h (which is also included by the static decompressors) is static. This is fine when the only thing interested in using malloc() is the decompression code, but the x86 early boot environment may use malloc() in a couple places, leading to a potential collision when the static copies of the available memory region ("malloc_ptr") gets reset to the global "free_mem_ptr" value. As it happened, the existing usage pattern was accidentally safe because each user did 1 malloc() and 1 free() before returning and were not nested: extract_kernel() (misc.c) choose_random_location() (kaslr.c) mem_avoid_init() handle_mem_options() malloc() ... free() ... parse_elf() (misc.c) malloc() ... free() Once the future FGKASLR series is added, however, it will insert additional malloc() calls local to fgkaslr.c in the middle of parse_elf()'s malloc()/free() pair: parse_elf() (misc.c) malloc() if (...) { layout_randomized_image(output, &ehdr, phdrs); malloc() <- boom ... else layout_image(output, &ehdr, phdrs); free() To avoid collisions, there must be a single implementation of malloc(). Adjust include/linux/decompress/mm.h so that visibility can be controlled, provide prototypes in misc.h, and implement the functions in misc.c. This also results in a small size savings: $ size vmlinux.before vmlinux.after text data bss dec hex filename 8842314 468 178320 9021102 89a6ae vmlinux.before 8842240 468 178320 9021028 89a664 vmlinux.after Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211013175742.1197608-4-keescook@chromium.org
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