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    x86/efi: Add support for EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE · 5f999ed4
    Sai Praneeth authored
    UEFI v2.6 introduces EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE which describes memory
    protections that may be applied to EFI Runtime code and data regions by
    kernel. This enables kernel to map these regions more strictly thereby
    increasing security. Presently, the only valid bits for attribute field
    of a memory descriptor are EFI_MEMORY_RO and EFI_MEMORY_XP, hence use
    these bits to update mappings in efi_pgd.
    
    UEFI specification recommends to use this feature instead of
    EFI_PROPERTIES_TABLE and hence while updating efi mappings we first
    check for EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE and if it's present we update
    mappings according to this table and hence disregarding
    EFI_PROPERTIES_TABLE even if it's published by firmware. We consider
    EFI_PROPERTIES_TABLE only when EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE is absent.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
    Cc: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    Cc: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri@intel.com>
    Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
    Cc: Ravi Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
    Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
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