x86/boot: Clarify purpose of functions in misc.c

The function "decompress_kernel" now performs many more duties, so this
patch renames it to "extract_kernel" and updates callers and comments.
Additionally the file header comment for misc.c is improved to actually
describe what is contained.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
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/1460997735-24785-5-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Kees Cook 2016-04-18 09:42:13 -07:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 6655e0aaf7
commit c040288132
3 changed files with 12 additions and 10 deletions

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@ -233,9 +233,9 @@ relocated:
2:
/*
* Do the decompression, and jump to the new kernel..
* Do the extraction, and jump to the new kernel..
*/
/* push arguments for decompress_kernel: */
/* push arguments for extract_kernel: */
pushl $z_run_size /* size of kernel with .bss and .brk */
pushl $z_output_len /* decompressed length, end of relocs */
leal z_extract_offset_negative(%ebx), %ebp
@ -246,11 +246,11 @@ relocated:
leal boot_heap(%ebx), %eax
pushl %eax /* heap area */
pushl %esi /* real mode pointer */
call decompress_kernel /* returns kernel location in %eax */
call extract_kernel /* returns kernel location in %eax */
addl $28, %esp
/*
* Jump to the decompressed kernel.
* Jump to the extracted kernel.
*/
xorl %ebx, %ebx
jmp *%eax

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@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ relocated:
2:
/*
* Do the decompression, and jump to the new kernel..
* Do the extraction, and jump to the new kernel..
*/
pushq %rsi /* Save the real mode argument */
movq $z_run_size, %r9 /* size of kernel with .bss and .brk */
@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ relocated:
movl $z_input_len, %ecx /* input_len */
movq %rbp, %r8 /* output target address */
movq $z_output_len, %r9 /* decompressed length, end of relocs */
call decompress_kernel /* returns kernel location in %rax */
call extract_kernel /* returns kernel location in %rax */
popq %r9
popq %rsi

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@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
/*
* misc.c
*
* This is a collection of several routines from gzip-1.0.3
* adapted for Linux.
* This is a collection of several routines used to extract the kernel
* which includes KASLR relocation, decompression, ELF parsing, and
* relocation processing. Additionally included are the screen and serial
* output functions and related debugging support functions.
*
* malloc by Hannu Savolainen 1993 and Matthias Urlichs 1994
* puts by Nick Holloway 1993, better puts by Martin Mares 1995
@ -383,7 +385,7 @@ static void parse_elf(void *output)
free(phdrs);
}
asmlinkage __visible void *decompress_kernel(void *rmode, memptr heap,
asmlinkage __visible void *extract_kernel(void *rmode, memptr heap,
unsigned char *input_data,
unsigned long input_len,
unsigned char *output,
@ -412,7 +414,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void *decompress_kernel(void *rmode, memptr heap,
cols = boot_params->screen_info.orig_video_cols;
console_init();
debug_putstr("early console in decompress_kernel\n");
debug_putstr("early console in extract_kernel\n");
free_mem_ptr = heap; /* Heap */
free_mem_end_ptr = heap + BOOT_HEAP_SIZE;