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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/random.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/random.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/random.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/random.c index 24aa37535372..33ab56769595 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/random.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/random.c @@ -75,7 +75,12 @@ efi_status_t efi_random_get_seed(void) if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) return status; - status = efi_bs_call(allocate_pool, EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_DATA, + /* + * Use EFI_ACPI_RECLAIM_MEMORY here so that it is guaranteed that the + * allocation will survive a kexec reboot (although we refresh the seed + * beforehand) + */ + status = efi_bs_call(allocate_pool, EFI_ACPI_RECLAIM_MEMORY, sizeof(*seed) + EFI_RANDOM_SEED_SIZE, (void **)&seed); if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) |