Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/boot: fix KASL when memmap range manipulation is used

From: Baoquan He
Date: Mon Feb 11 2019 - 04:09:41 EST


On 01/30/19 at 05:40pm, Julian Stecklina wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
> index 9ed9709..5657e34 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
> @@ -155,6 +155,12 @@ parse_memmap(char *p, unsigned long long *start, unsigned long long *size)
> case '#':
> case '$':
> case '!':
> + /*
> + * % would need some more complex parsing, because regions might
> + * actually become usable for KASLR, but the simple way of
> + * ignoring anything that is mentioned in % works for now.
> + */

This seems to make thing more complicated even though have to. One
concern is whether we need to check the oldtype|newtype , e.g
oldtype=reserverd, newtype=RAM, is it possible to set like that?

Thanks
Baoquan

> + case '%':
> *start = memparse(p + 1, &p);
> return 0;
> case '@':
> --
> 2.7.4
>