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Message-Id: <CU4OA1SYEUA9.1HXBD5E4PKRZ4@seitikki>
Date:   Mon, 17 Jul 2023 18:52:13 +0000
From:   "Jarkko Sakkinen" <jarkko@...nel.org>
To:     "Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        "Haitao Huang" <haitao.huang@...ux.intel.com>,
        <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, <tj@...nel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-sgx@...r.kernel.org>,
        <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>, "Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...hat.com>, "Borislav Petkov" <bp@...en8.de>,
        <x86@...nel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:     <kai.huang@...el.com>, <reinette.chatre@...el.com>,
        <zhiquan1.li@...el.com>, <kristen@...ux.intel.com>,
        <seanjc@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 17/28] x86/sgx: fix a NULL pointer

On Mon Jul 17, 2023 at 3:49 PM UTC, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 7/17/23 05:48, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Wed Jul 12, 2023 at 11:01 PM UTC, Haitao Huang wrote:
> >> Under heavy load, the SGX EPC reclaimers (ksgxd or future EPC cgroup
> >> worker) may reclaim SECS EPC page for an enclave and set
> >> encl->secs.epc_page to NULL. But the SECS EPC page is required for EAUG
> >> in #PF handler and is used without checking for NULL and reloading.
> >>
> >> Fix this by checking if SECS is loaded before EAUG and load it if it was
> >> reclaimed.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Haitao Huang <haitao.huang@...ux.intel.com>
> > A bug fix should be 1/*.
>
> No, bug fixes should not even be _part_ of another series.  Send bug
> fixes separately, please.

Yes, that would be of course a better option.

BR, Jarkko

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