[PATCH] arm64: efi: ignore EFI_MEMORY_XP attribute if RP and/or WP are set

Stephen Boyd sboyd at codeaurora.org
Fri Sep 15 11:53:55 PDT 2017


On 09/14, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> The UEFI memory map is a bit vague about how to interpret the
> EFI_MEMORY_XP attribute when it is combined with EFI_MEMORY_RP and/or
> EFI_MEMORY_WP, which have retroactively been redefined as cacheability
> attributes rather than permission attributes.
> 
> So let's ignore EFI_MEMORY_XP if _RP and/or _WP are also set. In this
> case, it is likely that they are being used to describe the capability
> of the region (i.e., whether it has the controls to reconfigure it as
> non-executable) rather than the nature of the contents of the region
> (i.e., whether it contains data that we will never attempt to execute)
> 
> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org>

Reported-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org>

I will test early next week and provide a tested-by. Thanks.

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