On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 09:39:27AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > The EFI stub randomizes the physical placement of the kernel as well, > and this is no longer possible by the time we reach early_kaslr_init() > in the kernel proper, so this is not something RNDR et al can make up > for. Ah, I'd not seen that the stub also did physical randomization. > So perhaps change this to 'physical placement will not be randomized' > or something along those lines? Or alternatively, just remove the > second part of the sentence - we have better reporting of the KASLR > state now anyway. Probably easier to just remove it rather than bikeshed the log message, it flags the error and avoids the issue I was seeing where the diagnostics in the boot log claimed that we had both disabled and enabled KASLR (quantum KASLR!).
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