On Tue Nov 12, 2024 at 7:55 AM UTC, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 at 22:45, Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> - Although care is taken to make sure the memory backing the EFI Memory >> Attributes table is preserved during runtime and reachable after kexec >> (see efi_memattr_init()). I don't see the same happening for the EFI >> properties table. Maybe it's just unnecessary as there's an assumption >> that the table will fall in memory preserved during runtime? Or for >> another reason? Otherwise, we'd need to make sure it isn't possible to >> set EFI_NX_PE_DATA on kexec. > > Thanks. > > I think we should just drop support for the EFI_PROPERTIES_TABLE - it > was a failed, short-lived experiment that broke the boot on both Linux > and Windows, and was replaced with the memory attributes table shortly > after. Isn't there a tiny posibility some platorm might be using the feature? Otherwise I'll send a v2 right away. Nicolas
