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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Julian Stecklina <jsteckli@amazon.de>,
	Julian Stecklina <js@alien8.de>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	jschoenh@amazon.de, Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
	Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/boot: increase maximum number of avoided KASLR regions
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 18:53:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190206175357.GG7314@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jLdm5O9U5N+LR15EnAYcPGB83qK_soaKb7HJ_Pa+G5+Fg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 03:29:06PM +0000, Kees Cook wrote:
> I'm fine adjusting all this to do things better. Ultimately, we're
> still walking two lists to process their intersection.

I'm wondering if we could start with a single range including all memory
and then keep exluding until we're done and then feed those remaining
ranges to slots_fetch_random(). So that mem_avoid[] is not needed
anymore.

Probably need to look for the devil in the detail first.

> Eh, it's just in the boot stub. ;)

They always say something like that. :-)

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-06 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-30 16:40 [PATCH 1/2] x86/boot: fix KASL when memmap range manipulation is used Julian Stecklina
2019-01-30 16:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/boot: increase maximum number of avoided KASLR regions Julian Stecklina
2019-02-05 14:44   ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-06 12:50     ` Julian Stecklina
2019-02-06 14:17       ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-06 15:29         ` Kees Cook
2019-02-06 17:53           ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2019-02-11  9:09 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/boot: fix KASL when memmap range manipulation is used Baoquan He
2019-02-11  9:54   ` Julian Stecklina

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