[PATCH 4.13 029/109] docs: disable KASLR when debugging kernel

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

4.13-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

--

From: Zhouyi Zhou 

commit e604f1cb85367d2e5fd4cf253296d190996da81a upstream.

commit 6807c84652b0 ("x86: Enable KASLR by default") enables KASLR
by default on x86. While KASLR will confuse gdb which resolve kernel
symbol address from symbol table of vmlinux. We should turn off KASLR for
kernel debugging.

Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou 
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham 
Acked-by: Jan Kiszka 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Natale Patriciello 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 

---
 Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst |6 --
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
@@ -31,11 +31,13 @@ Setup
   CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED off. If your architecture supports
   CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER, keep it enabled.
 
-- Install that kernel on the guest.
+- Install that kernel on the guest, turn off KASLR if necessary by adding
+  "nokaslr" to the kernel command line.
   Alternatively, QEMU allows to boot the kernel directly using -kernel,
   -append, -initrd command line switches. This is generally only useful if
   you do not depend on modules. See QEMU documentation for more details on
-  this mode.
+  this mode. In this case, you should build the kernel with
+  CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE disabled if the architecture supports KASLR.
 
 - Enable the gdb stub of QEMU/KVM, either
 

[PATCH 4.13 029/109] docs: disable KASLR when debugging kernel

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

4.13-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

--

From: Zhouyi Zhou 

commit e604f1cb85367d2e5fd4cf253296d190996da81a upstream.

commit 6807c84652b0 ("x86: Enable KASLR by default") enables KASLR
by default on x86. While KASLR will confuse gdb which resolve kernel
symbol address from symbol table of vmlinux. We should turn off KASLR for
kernel debugging.

Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou 
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham 
Acked-by: Jan Kiszka 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Natale Patriciello 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 

---
 Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst |6 --
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
@@ -31,11 +31,13 @@ Setup
   CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED off. If your architecture supports
   CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER, keep it enabled.
 
-- Install that kernel on the guest.
+- Install that kernel on the guest, turn off KASLR if necessary by adding
+  "nokaslr" to the kernel command line.
   Alternatively, QEMU allows to boot the kernel directly using -kernel,
   -append, -initrd command line switches. This is generally only useful if
   you do not depend on modules. See QEMU documentation for more details on
-  this mode.
+  this mode. In this case, you should build the kernel with
+  CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE disabled if the architecture supports KASLR.
 
 - Enable the gdb stub of QEMU/KVM, either