linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 4/4] x86,module: Detect CRn and DRn manipulation

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Date:   Wed, 8 Apr 2020 09:25:45 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
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        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH 4/4] x86,module: Detect CRn and DRn manipulation

From: Jan Kiszka
> Sent: 08 April 2020 09:59
...
> At the risk of cutting our own branch off: That's not the firmware
> loader, it's ioremap with PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC.

You could link the 'blob' into the .text part of a normal
kernel module and then load that.

	David

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