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author | Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> | 2016-05-06 13:50:15 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-05-07 07:38:38 +0200 |
commit | 549f90db68c9f8e21a40ec21c8047441984e7164 (patch) | |
tree | 67e928381b591ef41fc423fdd7590d1e996e2da9 /arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c | |
parent | 9dc1969c24eff8b7d7a9a565d1047b624921ba06 (diff) |
x86/boot: Simplify pointer casting in choose_random_location()
Pass them down as 'unsigned long' directly and get rid of more casting and
assignments.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: bhe@redhat.com
Cc: dyoung@redhat.com
Cc: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: luto@kernel.org
Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com
Cc: yinghai@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160506115015.GI24044@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c index 6392f0041b8a..ff1227746c72 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c @@ -350,20 +350,15 @@ static unsigned long find_random_addr(unsigned long minimum, return slots_fetch_random(); } -unsigned char *choose_random_location(unsigned char *input_ptr, +/* + * Since this function examines addresses much more numerically, + * it takes the input and output pointers as 'unsigned long'. + */ +unsigned char *choose_random_location(unsigned long input, unsigned long input_size, - unsigned char *output_ptr, + unsigned long output, unsigned long output_size) { - /* - * The caller of choose_random_location() uses unsigned char * for - * buffer pointers since it performs decompression, elf parsing, etc. - * Since this code examines addresses much more numerically, - * unsigned long is used internally here. Instead of sprinkling - * more casts into extract_kernel, do them here and at return. - */ - unsigned long input = (unsigned long)input_ptr; - unsigned long output = (unsigned long)output_ptr; unsigned long choice = output; unsigned long random_addr; |