[PATCH 1/5] ARM: efi: apply strict permissons for UEFI Runtime Services regions

Matt Fleming matt at codeblueprint.co.uk
Wed Mar 2 03:49:01 PST 2016


On Mon, 22 Feb, at 03:25:54PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Recent UEFI versions expose permission attributes for runtime services
> memory regions, either in the UEFI memory map or in the separate memory
> attributes table.  This allows the kernel to map these regions with
> stricter permissions, rather than the RWX permissions that are used by
> default. So wire this up in our mapping routine.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm/include/asm/efi.h |  1 +
>  arch/arm/kernel/efi.c      | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 42 insertions(+)

Looks fine from an EFI perspective, but it would be nice for somebody
else with ARM knowledge to ACK it.



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