UEFI: more ways for firmware to screw you

“Some of my recent time has been devoted to making our boot media more Mac friendly, which has entailed rather a lot of rebooting. This would have been fine, if tedious, except that some number of boots would fall over with either a clearly impossible kernel panic or userspace segfaulting in places that made no sense. Something was clearly wrong. Crashes that shouldn’t happen are generally an indication of memory corruption. The question is how that corruption is being triggered. Hunting that down wasn’t terribly easy.” Very interesting – and, unlike what the title suggest, not particularly related to the secure boot stuff.

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