We needed the physical address of the container in order to compute the offset within the relocated ramdisk. And we did this by doing __pa() on the virtual address. However, __pa() does checks whether the physical address is within PAGE_OFFSET and __START_KERNEL_map - see __phys_addr() - which fail if we have CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY enabled: we feed a virtual address which *doesn't* have the randomization offset into a function which uses PAGE_OFFSET which *does* have that offset. This makes this check fire: VIRTUAL_BUG_ON((x > y) || !phys_addr_valid(x)); ^^^^^^ due to the randomization offset. The fix is as simple as using __pa_nodebug() because we do that randomization offset accounting later in that function ourselves. Reported-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Tested-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> 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: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.9 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161027123623.j2jri5bandimboff@pd.tnic Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>