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Our virtual KASLR displacement is a randomly chosen multiple of
2 MiB plus an offset that is equal to the physical placement modulo 2
MiB. This arrangement ensures that we can always use 2 MiB block
mappings (or contiguous PTE mappings for 16k or 64k pages) to map the
kernel.
This means that a KASLR offset of less than 2 MiB is simply the product
of this physical displacement, and no randomization has actually taken
place. Currently, we use 'kaslr_offset() > 0' to decide whether or not
randomization has occurred, and so we misidentify this case.
If the kernel image placement is not randomized, modules are allocated
from a dedicated region below the kernel mapping, which is only used for
modules and not for other vmalloc() or vmap() calls.
When randomization is enabled, the kernel image is vmap()'ed randomly
inside the vmalloc region, and modules are allocated in the vicinity of
this mapping to ensure that relative references are always in range.
However, unlike the dedicated module region below the vmalloc region,
this region is not reserved exclusively for modules, and so ordinary
vmalloc() calls may end up overlapping with it. This should rarely
happen, given that vmalloc allocates bottom up, although it cannot be
ruled out entirely.
The misidentified case results in a placement of the kernel image within
2 MiB of its default address. However, the logic that randomizes the
module region is still invoked, and this could result in the module
region overlapping with the start of the vmalloc region, instead of
using the dedicated region below it. If this happens, a single large
vmalloc() or vmap() call will use up the entire region, and leave no
space for loading modules after that.
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.