linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/6] x86 efi: reserve boot service fix

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Message-ID: <20131027105009.GA21868@pd.tnic>
Date:	Sun, 27 Oct 2013 11:50:09 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	dyoung@...hat.com, Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>
Cc:	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, 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?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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