linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] EFI urgent fixes

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Message-ID: <20150731075627.GA32179@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:56:27 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-efi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] EFI urgent fixes


* Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk> wrote:

> Folks, please pull the following urgent EFI fixes which prevent an oops
> if users pass an invalid "efi" kernel parameter and a boot issue seen on
> Parallels virtual machines.
> 
> The tag is based on v4.2-rc4, let me know if you want me to rebase it on
> top of something else.
> 
> The following changes since commit cbfe8fa6cd672011c755c3cd85c9ffd4e2d10a6f:
> 
>   Linux 4.2-rc4 (2015-07-26 12:26:21 -0700)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi.git tags/efi-urgent
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 9115c7589b11349a1c3099758b4bded579ff69e0:
> 
>   efi: Check for NULL efi kernel parameters (2015-07-30 18:07:11 +0100)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>  * Fix an EFI boot issue preventing a Parallels virtual machine from
>    booting because the upper 32-bits of the EFI memmap pointer were
>    being discarded in setup_e820() - Dmitry Skorodumov
> 
>  * Validate that the "efi" kernel parameter gets used with an argument,
>    otherwise we will oops - Ricardo Neri
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Dmitry Skorodumov (1):
>       x86/efi: Use all 64 bit of efi_memmap in setup_e820()
> 
> Ricardo Neri (1):
>       efi: Check for NULL efi kernel parameters
> 
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c | 4 ++++
>  arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c      | 5 +++++
>  drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c       | 5 +++++
>  3 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

Pulled, thanks Matt!

	Ingo
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