x86/boot: Clean up pointer casting

Currently extract_kernel() defines the input and output buffer pointers
as "unsigned char *" since that's effectively what they are. It passes
these to the decompressor routine and to the ELF parser, which both
logically deal with buffer pointers too. There is some casting ("unsigned
long") done to validate the numerical value of the pointers, but it is
relatively limited.

However, choose_random_location() operates almost exclusively on the
numerical representation of these pointers, so it ended up carrying
a lot of "unsigned long" casts. With the future physical/virtual split
these casts were going to multiply, so this attempts to solve the
problem by doing all the casting in choose_random_location()'s entry
and return instead of through-out the code. Adjusts argument names to
be more meaningful, and changes one us of "choice" to "output" to make
the future physical/virtual split more clear (i.e. "choice" should be
strictly a function return value and not used as an intermediate).

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Young <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

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