Re: [PATCH v2] x86/efi: Add additional efi tables for unencrypted mapping checks

From: Tom Lendacky
Date: Tue Feb 25 2020 - 13:11:02 EST


On 2/25/20 11:58 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 18:54, Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 2/25/20 11:45 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>>> On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 18:41, Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> When booting with SME active, EFI tables must be mapped unencrypted since
>>>> they were built by UEFI in unencrypted memory. Update the list of tables
>>>> to be checked during early_memremap() processing to account for new EFI
>>>> tables.
>>>>
>>>> This fixes a bug where an EFI TPM log table has been created by UEFI, but
>>>> it lives in memory that has been marked as usable rather than reserved.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> Changes since v1:
>>>> - Re-spun against EFI tree
>>>
>>> Which one? Surely not the one in the link I included?
>>
>> I did a git clone of
>>
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi.git
>>
>> and checked out branch next. Not sure what I missed...
>>
>
> Weird. Do you see commit 5d288dbd88606d8f215c7138b10649115d79cadd on
> that branch? It removes rng_seed from struct efi, hence my request to
> rebase your patch.

I had just assumed you wanted a cleaner version and didn't realize that
rng_seed was removed from struct efi. My bad for not building.

>
> IMO, best is to simply drop the 'static' from rng_seed, rename it to
> efi_rng_seed, and drop an extern declaration in linux/efi.h so it is
> accessible from your code. I'm reluctant to put it back in struct efi.

Ok, I'll re-work the patch.

Thanks,
Tom

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