Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm/KASLR: EFI region is mistakenly included into KASLR VA space for randomization

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On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 09:37:36AM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> No. It is the firmware's EFI code, and the virtual translation applied
> by the OS is made known to the firmware by means of a call into the
> runtime service SetVirtualAddressMap().

We can still randomize within those 64G before calling
SetVirtualAddressMap(). The question is, do we want to or need to, even?

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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