On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 01:50:57PM +0100, Julian Stecklina wrote:
> Because at this point, we are not in a good position to handle an
> unlimited amount of regions.
We could save only the regions which are ok to kaslr into. And we do,
apparently:
static struct slot_area slot_areas[MAX_SLOT_AREA];
but I guess there was a reason to do the mem_avoid thing too instead of
collecting only OK ranges directly. Maybe Kees will know.
> As for the choice of "16", I took our usecase and multiplied it by two.
> FWIW, this could be even larger.
Because our kernel is not fat enough huh?
Btw, you missed a spot:
static unsigned long find_random_phys_addr(unsigned long minimum,
unsigned long image_size)
{
/* Check if we had too many memmaps. */
if (memmap_too_large) {
debug_putstr("Aborted memory entries scan (more than 4 memmap=
args)!\n");
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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