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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings
From: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
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On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 12:33 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Yeah, that's actually a good idea. Why not upstream it for the wider
> audience so that people can actually start reporting b0rked UEFIs?
> With
> a big and nice FW_BUG splat in there...

We attempted to upstream in the past but later I discovered that my
implementation in particular is causing warnings due to SMP. Also, I
need to implement an alternative or extension to the current
efi_map_region, which have the __init qualifier. This is because
mappings might happen after the __inits have been discarded. I have this
work currently in my scope.

Thanks and BR,
Ricardo