On Wed, 1 Mar 2023 at 21:43, Taylor Beebe <t...@taylorbeebe.com> wrote:
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> On 2/11/2023 2:05 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > On Sat, 11 Feb 2023 at 01:56, Taylor Beebe <t...@taylorbeebe.com> wrote:
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> >> Hey Ard,
> >>
> >> Once the Memory Attribute Protocol is made available, Windows will have
> >> some expectations about its functionality. Can you run this test app
> >> created by me and Jiewen to ensure it meets the Windows requirements?
> >> Part of the test needed an AARCH64 implementation which I just added -
> >> let me know if it doesn't work.
> >>
> >
> > Thanks, this is rather helpful.
> >
> > There appears to be an issue related to
> > DEBUG_PROPERTY_DEBUG_CLEAR_MEMORY_ENABLED so I had to disable that to
> > run these tests, as otherwise, the DXE core tries to clear freed pages
> > before restoring the memory attributes.
> >
> > With that out of the way, the only test that fails is 'New
> > EfiLoaderCode buffer attributes expected' because this firmware build
> > maps loader code RWX, as existing boot stages for Linux are relying on
> > this (including the kernel itself at this point)
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> It makes sense that the NewEfiLoaderCode test fails, but I am surprised
> the FreePagesWithProtectionAttributesTestCase passes. The test ensures
> that a page with EFI_MEMORY_RP and/or EFI_MEMORY_RO has those attributes
> cleared before attempting to free the page within the FreePage routine
> and is related to the concern Marvin had.
>
> Did you make a change to the core or is there an execution path I'm not
> seeing which allows that test to pass?

No, I didn't make any additional changes to the core afair.


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