Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: account for hotplug memory when randomizing the linear region

[Catalin Marinas]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:18:57 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> As a hardening measure, we currently randomize the placement of
> physical memory inside the linear region when KASLR is in effect.
> Since the random offset at which to place the available physical
> memory inside the linear region is chosen early at boot, it is
> based on the memblock description of memory, which does not cover
> hotplug memory. The consequence of this is that the randomization
> offset may be chosen such that any hotplugged memory located above
> memblock_end_of_DRAM() that appears later is pushed off the end of
> the linear region, where it cannot be accessed.
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/mem-hotplug), thanks!

[1/1] arm64: mm: account for hotplug memory when randomizing the linear region
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/97d6786e0669

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Catalin