linux-kernel - [GIT PULL 0/2] EFI urgent fixes

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Date:   Sat, 12 Nov 2016 21:04:22 +0000
From:   Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:     Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Subject: [GIT PULL 0/2] EFI urgent fixes

Folks, please pull the following two EFI patches. The first fixes a
build warning for PAE that Boris hit. The second makes mixed-mode EFI
boot again after the vmap'd stack changes introduced during the merge
window.

The following changes since commit bc33b0ca11e3df467777a4fa7639ba488c9d4911:

  Linux 4.9-rc4 (2016-11-05 16:23:36 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi.git tags/efi-urgent

for you to fetch changes up to 044ddf3d3e3cb62671f22fa837a2164d4786d867:

  x86/efi: Prevent mixed mode boot corruption with CONFIG_VMAP_STACK (2016-11-12 21:00:18 +0000)

----------------------------------------------------------------
 * Fix memory corruption when booting EFI mixed mode due to the recent
   vmap'd stack changes - Matt Fleming

 * Build warning fix in the EFI memmap code when CONFIG_X86_PAE and
   CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT are enabled - Borislav Petkov

----------------------------------------------------------------
Borislav Petkov (1):
      x86/efi: Fix EFI memmap pointer size warning

Matt Fleming (1):
      x86/efi: Prevent mixed mode boot corruption with CONFIG_VMAP_STACK

 arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c    |  2 +-
 arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c | 80 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 2 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)