linux-kernel - Re: kexec regression since 4.9 caused by efi

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Date:   Fri, 17 Mar 2017 13:32:32 +0000
From:   Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
To:     Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
Cc:     Omar Sandoval <osandov@...ndov.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...com, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-efi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kexec regression since 4.9 caused by efi

On Fri, 17 Mar, at 10:09:51AM, Dave Young wrote:
> 
> Matt, I think it should be fine although I think the md type checking in
> efi_mem_desc_lookup() is causing confusion and not easy to understand..
 
Could you make that a separate patch if you think of improvements
there?

> How about move the if chunk early like below because it seems no need
> to sanity check the addr + size any more if the md is still RUNTIME?

My original version did as you suggest, but I changed it because we
*really* want to know if someone tries to reserve a range that spans
regions. That would be totally unexpected and a warning about a
potential bug/issue.