Re: [PATCH 1/5] ARM: efi: apply strict permissons for UEFI Runtime Services regions

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On Wed, 02 Mar, at 02:07:36PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 2 March 2016 at 12:49, Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Feb, at 03:25:54PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >> Recent UEFI versions expose permission attributes for runtime services
> >> memory regions, either in the UEFI memory map or in the separate memory
> >> attributes table.  This allows the kernel to map these regions with
> >> stricter permissions, rather than the RWX permissions that are used by
> >> default. So wire this up in our mapping routine.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >>  arch/arm/include/asm/efi.h |  1 +
> >>  arch/arm/kernel/efi.c      | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++
> >>  2 files changed, 42 insertions(+)
> >
> > Looks fine from an EFI perspective, but it would be nice for somebody
> > else with ARM knowledge to ACK it.
> 
> I agree.
> 
> Note that the whole memory attribute series needs to wait for some
> memremap() changes that I proposed for ARM (or at least the bits where
> we wire it up for arm64+ARM)

Thanks for the reminder. I'll definitely hold off on applying this for
now.
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