Re: [PATCH] arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel: don't store initrd's start

From: Nicolai Stange
Date: Mon Jul 25 2016 - 10:28:12 EST


Nicolai Stange <nicstange@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> 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.