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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 20:30:58 +0000 From: Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org> To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> Cc: dyoung@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org, mjg59@...f.ucam.org, hpa@...or.com, James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com, vgoyal@...hat.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com, horms@...ge.net.au, kexec@...ts.fedoraproject.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org Subject: Re: [patch 2/6] x86 efi: reserve boot service fix On Sun, 27 Oct, at 11:50:09AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 11:47:15AM +0800, dyoung@...hat.com wrote: > > Current code check boot service region with kernel text region by: > > start+size >= __pa_symbol(_text) > > The end of the above region should be start + size - 1 instead. > > > > I see this problem in ovmf + Fedora 19 grub boot: > > text start: 1000000 md start: 800000 md size: 800000 > > > > Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com> > > Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de> > > Btw, Matt, this being a bugfix and all, shouldn't it be tagged for > stable? Well that depends. Dave, am I correct in thinking that you only noticed this bug when writing kexec support? I'm inclined not to bother with a stable tag if no one has ever noticed any fallout from this bug until now. -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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