linux-kernel - [tip: x86/kaslr] x86/kaslr: Fix process_efi

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Date:   Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:29:14 -0000
From:   "tip-bot2 for Arvind Sankar" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, x86 <x86@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [tip: x86/kaslr] x86/kaslr: Fix process_efi_entries comment

The following commit has been merged into the x86/kaslr branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     a68bcea591a040cce5e08615c829a316beb3e4b4
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/a68bcea591a040cce5e08615c829a316beb3e4b4
Author:        Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
AuthorDate:    Mon, 27 Jul 2020 19:07:56 -04:00
Committer:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitterDate: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:54:43 +02:00

x86/kaslr: Fix process_efi_entries comment

Since commit:

  0982adc74673 ("x86/boot/KASLR: Work around firmware bugs by excluding EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_* and EFI_LOADER_* from KASLR's choice")

process_efi_entries() will return true if we have an EFI memmap, not just
if it contained EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE regions.

Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200727230801.3468620-4-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
---
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
index 21cd9e0..207fcb7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
@@ -741,8 +741,8 @@ static bool process_mem_region(struct mem_vector *region,
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_EFI
 /*
- * Returns true if mirror region found (and must have been processed
- * for slots adding)
+ * Returns true if we processed the EFI memmap, which we prefer over the E820
+ * table if it is available.
  */
 static bool
 process_efi_entries(unsigned long minimum, unsigned long image_size)