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commit 7d866e38c7e9ece8a096d0d098fa9d92b9d4f97e upstream. EFI runtime services data is guaranteed to be preserved by the OS, making it a suitable candidate for the EFI random seed table, which may be passed to kexec kernels as well (after refreshing the seed), and so we need to ensure that the memory is preserved without support from the OS itself. However, runtime services data is intended for allocations that are relevant to the implementations of the runtime services themselves, and so they are unmapped from the kernel linear map, and mapped into the EFI page tables that are active while runtime service invocations are in progress. None of this is needed for the RNG seed. So let's switch to EFI 'ACPI reclaim' memory: in spite of the name, there is nothing exclusively ACPI about it, it is simply a type of allocation that carries firmware provided data which may or may not be relevant to the OS, and it is left up to the OS to decide whether to reclaim it after having consumed its contents. Given that in Linux, we never reclaim these allocations, it is a good choice for the EFI RNG seed, as the allocation is guaranteed to survive kexec reboots. One additional reason for changing this now is to align it with the upcoming recommendation for EFI bootloader provided RNG seeds, which must not use EFI runtime services code/data allocations. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.14+ Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.