linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v1 10/18] x86/efi: Access EFI related tables in the clear

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Date:	Fri, 17 Jun 2016 16:51:45 +0100
From:	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
To:	Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
Cc:	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 10/18] x86/efi: Access EFI related tables in the
 clear

On Thu, 16 Jun, at 09:38:31AM, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> 
> Ok, I think this was happening before the commit to build our own
> EFI page table structures:
> 
> commit 67a9108ed ("x86/efi: Build our own page table structures")
> 
> Before this commit the boot services ended up mapped into the kernel
> page table entries as un-encrypted during efi_map_regions() and I needed
> to change those entries back to encrypted. With your change above,
> this appears to no longer be needed.

Great news! Things are as they should be ;)