From: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
To: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
keescook@chromium.org, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com,
izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com, fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com,
thgarnie@google.com, n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 RESEND] x86/boot/KASLR: Restrict kernel to be randomized in mirror regions
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 08:23:48 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170725002348.GD24530@x1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170724133410.GC11076@codeblueprint.co.uk>
On 07/24/17 at 02:34pm, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jul, at 09:19:56PM, Baoquan He wrote:
> >
> > There are places where the efi map is getting and used like this. E.g
> > in efi_high_alloc() of drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c.
> > EFI developers worry the size of efi_memory_desc_t could not be the same
> > as e->efi_memdesc_size?
> >
> > Hi Matt,
> >
> > Could you help have a look at this?
>
> You're exactly right. The code guards against the size of the
> efi_memory_desc_t struct changing. The UEFI spec says to traverse the
> memory map this way.
Thanks a lot, Matt. Then I will keep using the way.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-25 0:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-20 9:16 [PATCH v6 RESEND] x86/boot/KASLR: Restrict kernel to be randomized in mirror regions Baoquan He
2017-07-21 10:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-07-21 12:35 ` Baoquan He
2017-07-21 10:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-07-21 13:19 ` Baoquan He
2017-07-21 17:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-07-21 23:43 ` Baoquan He
2017-07-24 13:34 ` Matt Fleming
2017-07-25 0:23 ` Baoquan He [this message]
2017-07-28 8:06 ` Baoquan He
2017-07-28 9:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-07-28 10:18 ` Baoquan He
2017-07-28 10:38 ` Baoquan He
2017-07-28 11:26 ` Baoquan He
2017-08-04 11:23 ` Matt Fleming
2017-08-04 11:40 ` Baoquan He
2017-08-04 11:55 ` Matt Fleming
2017-08-04 12:02 ` Baoquan He
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