linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv13 3/9] efi/libstub: Implement support for unaccepted memory

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Date:   Fri, 2 Jun 2023 15:20:21 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv13 3/9] efi/libstub: Implement support for unaccepted
 memory

On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 02:10:05PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 09:25:37PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
> > index 043ca31c114e..231f1c70d1db 100644
> > --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
> > @@ -269,6 +269,20 @@ config EFI_COCO_SECRET
> >  	  virt/coco/efi_secret module to access the secrets, which in turn
> >  	  allows userspace programs to access the injected secrets.
> >  
> > +config UNACCEPTED_MEMORY
> 
> Why is this Kconfig symbol in this file?
> 
> I'm thinking this needs to be somewhere generic, like in mm/Kconfig or
> so...

Unaccepted memory is an EFI feature. We can move it somewhere else, if
other firmware/platform would support anything like it.

-- 
  Kiryl Shutsemau / Kirill A. Shutemov