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From:   Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, x86@kernel.org
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Subject: [PATCH v3 03/21] x86/kaslr: Fix process_efi_entries comment
Date:   Tue, 28 Jul 2020 18:57:04 -0400
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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@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 c31f3a5ab9e4..1ab67a84a781 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
@@ -742,8 +742,8 @@ 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)
-- 
2.26.2