On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 11:50:56PM -0500, Glenn Washburn wrote:
> In certain firmwares, eg. OVMF, the RNG protocol is not enabled unless
> there is an RNG device. When not enabled, GRUB fails to initialize the
> stack guard with random bytes. For testing, this is not a big issue, but
> there have been bugs found in the initialization. So turn this on for EFI
> platforms to catch any regressions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <developm...@efficientek.com>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>

> ---
> This patch will potentially cause a lot of failures on EFI platforms
> because of a bug in stack smashing initialization, which the list has
> been notified of. This patch is in part meant to exercise that bug and
> allows successful test runs when that bug is fixed.

I will review the patch mentioned above and then push both patches
together to not break tests at this point.

Daniel

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