Re: [PATCH v8 0/2] x86/boot/KASLR: Restrict kernel to be randomized in mirror regions

[Baoquan He]

Sorry, NACK this series, there's error to hang system. Before I just
halt system intentionally with error() to check the efi memmap printing,
didn't notice this. Checking the cause.

On 08/04/17 at 03:26pm, Baoquan He wrote:
> Patch 1/2 is newly added to add efi_memdesc_ptr helper to wrap the
> open code which gets the start of efi memmap descriptor and also
> explain why it need be done like that, Ingo suggested it. 
> 
> And also replace several places of the open code with efi_memdesc_ptr
> helper.
> 
> And also use efi_memdesc_ptr in process_efi_entries() which handle efi
> mirror issue during KASLR.
> 
> 
> Change:
> v7->v8:
>     Add efi_memdesc_ptr helper to wrap the open code which gets the
>     start of map descriptor according to Ingo's suggestion.
> 
> v6->v7:
>   Ingo pointed out several incorrect line break issues and unclear
>   description of patch log. Correct them and rewrite patch log.
> 
>   And also rewrite the EFI warning message that if EFI memmap is above
>   4G in 32bit system since 32bit system can not handle data above 4G at
>   kernel decompression stage. This is suggested by Ingo too.
> 
> v5->v6:
>   Code style issue fix according to Kees's comment.
> 
>   This is based on tip/x86/boot, patch 1,2,3/4 in v5 post has
>   been put into tip/x86/boot now.
> 
> 
> 
> Baoquan He (2):
>   efi: Introduce efi_memdesc_ptr to get pointer to memmap descriptor
>   x86/boot/KASLR: Restrict kernel to be randomized in mirror regions
> 
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c               |  2 +-
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c               | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c |  4 +-
>  include/linux/efi.h                            | 19 +++++++
>  4 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
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