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Ben reports spurious EFI zboot failures on a system where physical RAM starts at 0x0. When doing random memory allocation from the EFI stub on such a platform, a random seed of 0x0 (which means no entropy source is available) will result in the allocation to be placed at address 0x0 if sufficient space is available. When this allocation is subsequently passed on to the decompression code, the 0x0 address is mistaken for NULL and the code complains and gives up. So avoid address 0x0 when doing random allocation, and set the minimum address to the minimum alignment. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Reported-by: Ben Schneider <ben@bens.haus> Tested-by: Ben Schneider <ben@bens.haus> Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.