x86/KASLR: Update description for decompressor worst case size

The comment that describes the analysis for the size of the decompressor
code only took gzip into account (there are currently 6 other decompressors
that could be used). The actual z_extract_offset calculation in code was
already handling the correct maximum size, but this documentation hadn't
been updated. This updates the documentation, fixes several typos, moves
the comment to header.S, updates references, and adds a note at the end
of the decompressor include list to remind us about updating the comment
in the future.

(Instead of moving the comment to mkpiggy.c, where the calculation
is currently happening, it is being moved to header.S because
the calculations in mkpiggy.c will be removed in favor of header.S
calculations in a following patch, and it seemed like overkill to move
the giant comment twice, especially when there's already reference to
z_extract_offset in header.S.)

Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
[ Rewrote changelog, cleaned up comment style, moved comments around. ]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461185746-8017-2-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 81 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
index ad8c01ac2885..e96829bdb6d2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
@@ -14,90 +14,13 @@
 #include "misc.h"
 #include "../string.h"
 
-/* WARNING!!
- * This code is compiled with -fPIC and it is relocated dynamically
- * at run time, but no relocation processing is performed.
- * This means that it is not safe to place pointers in static structures.
- */
-
 /*
- * Getting to provable safe in place decompression is hard.
- * Worst case behaviours need to be analyzed.
- * Background information:
- *
- * The file layout is:
- *    magic[2]
- *    method[1]
- *    flags[1]
- *    timestamp[4]
- *    extraflags[1]
- *    os[1]
- *    compressed data blocks[N]
- *    crc[4] orig_len[4]
- *
- * resulting in 18 bytes of non compressed data overhead.
- *
- * Files divided into blocks
- * 1 bit (last block flag)
- * 2 bits (block type)
- *
- * 1 block occurs every 32K -1 bytes or when there 50% compression
- * has been achieved. The smallest block type encoding is always used.
- *
- * stored:
- *    32 bits length in bytes.
- *
- * fixed:
- *    magic fixed tree.
- *    symbols.
- *
- * dynamic:
- *    dynamic tree encoding.
- *    symbols.
- *
- *
- * The buffer for decompression in place is the length of the
- * uncompressed data, plus a small amount extra to keep the algorithm safe.
- * The compressed data is placed at the end of the buffer.  The output
- * pointer is placed at the start of the buffer and the input pointer
- * is placed where the compressed data starts.  Problems will occur
- * when the output pointer overruns the input pointer.
- *
- * The output pointer can only overrun the input pointer if the input
- * pointer is moving faster than the output pointer.  A condition only
- * triggered by data whose compressed form is larger than the uncompressed
- * form.
- *
- * The worst case at the block level is a growth of the compressed data
- * of 5 bytes per 32767 bytes.
- *
- * The worst case internal to a compressed block is very hard to figure.
- * The worst case can at least be boundined by having one bit that represents
- * 32764 bytes and then all of the rest of the bytes representing the very
- * very last byte.
- *
- * All of which is enough to compute an amount of extra data that is required
- * to be safe.  To avoid problems at the block level allocating 5 extra bytes
- * per 32767 bytes of data is sufficient.  To avoind problems internal to a
- * block adding an extra 32767 bytes (the worst case uncompressed block size)
- * is sufficient, to ensure that in the worst case the decompressed data for
- * block will stop the byte before the compressed data for a block begins.
- * To avoid problems with the compressed data's meta information an extra 18
- * bytes are needed.  Leading to the formula:
- *
- * extra_bytes = (uncompressed_size >> 12) + 32768 + 18 + decompressor_size.
- *
- * Adding 8 bytes per 32K is a bit excessive but much easier to calculate.
- * Adding 32768 instead of 32767 just makes for round numbers.
- * Adding the decompressor_size is necessary as it musht live after all
- * of the data as well.  Last I measured the decompressor is about 14K.
- * 10K of actual data and 4K of bss.
- *
+ * WARNING!!
+ * This code is compiled with -fPIC and it is relocated dynamically at
+ * run time, but no relocation processing is performed. This means that
+ * it is not safe to place pointers in static structures.
  */
 
-/*
- * gzip declarations
- */
 #define STATIC		static
 
 #undef memcpy
@@ -148,6 +71,10 @@ static int lines, cols;
 #ifdef CONFIG_KERNEL_LZ4
 #include "../../../../lib/decompress_unlz4.c"
 #endif
+/*
+ * NOTE: When adding a new decompressor, please update the analysis in
+ * ../header.S.
+ */
 
 static void scroll(void)
 {