Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/boot: increase maximum number of avoided KASLR regions
From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Feb 06 2019 - 12:54:12 EST
On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 03:29:06PM +0000, Kees Cook wrote:
> I'm fine adjusting all this to do things better. Ultimately, we're
> still walking two lists to process their intersection.
I'm wondering if we could start with a single range including all memory
and then keep exluding until we're done and then feed those remaining
ranges to slots_fetch_random(). So that mem_avoid[] is not needed
anymore.
Probably need to look for the devil in the detail first.
> Eh, it's just in the boot stub. ;)
They always say something like that. :-)
Thx.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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