From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752965AbcGYO2K (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2016 10:28:10 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f65.google.com ([74.125.82.65]:35288 "EHLO mail-wm0-f65.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752249AbcGYO17 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2016 10:27:59 -0400 From: Nicolai Stange To: Nicolai Stange Cc: Borislav Petkov , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel: don't store initrd's start References: <20160724150549.2833-1-nicstange@gmail.com> <20160725070648.GB24576@nazgul.tnic> <87bn1m5auo.fsf@gmail.com> <20160725123643.GE4901@nazgul.tnic> <871t2hkh4w.fsf@gmail.com> <20160725134453.GB18535@nazgul.tnic> <87shuxiz06.fsf@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 16:27:55 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87shuxiz06.fsf@gmail.com> (Nicolai Stange's message of "Mon, 25 Jul 2016 16:16:41 +0200") Message-ID: <87lh0piyhg.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.95 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nicolai Stange writes: > Borislav Petkov writes: >> Well, it shouldn't because in the builtin case start should simply >> contain the ASLR offset the physmem mapping was moved to and this offset >> is exactly where the builtin images should be... Let me poke at it to >> see whether I'm seeing things correctly. > > Hmm. From what I've seen, I've concluded that the builtin images' > addresses are __va ones (assuming x86_64). I might be wrong though. Clarification: "__va ones" that don't point into the physmem mapping but somewhere else.