On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 02:03:50PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > data structure. It also creates a time window where the initrd data sits > in memory, and can potentially be corrupted before the kernel is booted. > I don't quite understand the time window aspect -- can you expand on that? It seems like the same time window exists between when the kernel is loaded and when it actually runs, no? Why is this more important for initrd?