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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 RESEND] x86/boot/KASLR: Restrict kernel to be randomized in mirror regions
On Fri, 28 Jul, at 07:26:03PM, Baoquan He wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> On 07/28/17 at 11:55am, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> 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.
> >
> > This is not obvious and looks pretty ugly as well, and open coded in several
> > places.
> >
> > At minimum we should have an efi_memdesc_ptr(efi, i) wrapper inline (or so) that
> > gives us the entry pointer, plus a comment that points out that ->memdesc_size
> > might not be equal to sizeof(efi_memory_memdesc_t).
>
> I can make a efi_memdesc_ptr(efi, i) wrapper as Ingo suggested and use
> it here if you agree. Seems it might be not good to add another
> for_each_efi_memory_desc_xxxx wrapper since there are different memmap
> data structures in x86 boot and in general efi libstub. Or any other
> idea?

I think adding a wrapper is fine, but I'd suggest including the word
"early" (or something similar) to explain that it should only be used
during bootup -- we want everyone else to use the
for_each_efi_memory_*() API.

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