[PATCH v5 17/32] x86/mm: Add support to access boot related data in the clear

Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky at amd.com
Tue May 30 10:47:30 PDT 2017


On 5/26/2017 11:35 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 11:22:36AM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote:
>> In addition to the same issue as efi.memmap.phys_map, efi_phys has
>> the __initdata attribute so it will be released/freed which will cause
>> problems in checks performed afterwards.
> 
> Sounds to me like we should drop the __initdata attr and prepare them
> much earlier for use by the SME code.

Probably something we can look at for a follow-on patch.

Thanks,
Tom

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