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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
	Huang Ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] x86, efi: Calling __pa() with an ioremap'd address is invalid
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 21:36:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111107213623.GA29304@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EB84EC9.1000104@zytor.com>

On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 01:34:01PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 11/07/2011 01:23 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > 
> > I know. But we also have to handle being called after 
> > ExitBootServices(). There are going to be people who don't want to deal 
> > with signing their kernel builds.
> >  
> 
> Could you clarify why these two are connected?

You can't execute anything unsigned until after ExitBootServices() has 
been called. Otherwise your bootloader is also a malware loader, and 
your signature probably gets blacklisted.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-07 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1320680088-2584-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org>
2011-11-07 20:23 ` [PATCH v3] x86, efi: Calling __pa() with an ioremap'd address is invalid Matthew Garrett
2011-11-07 20:36   ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-11-07 20:37     ` Matthew Garrett
2011-11-07 20:45       ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-11-07 20:48         ` Matthew Garrett
2011-11-07 20:57           ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-11-07 20:58             ` Matthew Garrett
2011-11-07 21:01               ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-11-07 21:07                 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-11-07 21:20                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-11-07 21:23                     ` Matthew Garrett
2011-11-07 21:34                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-11-07 21:36                         ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2011-11-07 22:43                       ` Alan Cox
2011-11-11  1:02   ` huang ying
2011-11-11 13:12     ` Matt Fleming
2011-11-11 13:49       ` Matt Fleming
2011-11-07 15:46 Matt Fleming

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