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Message-ID: <20240420110812.GLZiOiHNP4Q6YmWOLl@fat_crate.local>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 13:08:36 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Ashish Kalra <Ashish.Kalra@....com>
Cc: thomas.lendacky@....com, michael.roth@....com, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Apply RMP table fixups for kexec.

Drop linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org from Cc.

On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 09:08:56PM +0000, Ashish Kalra wrote:
> From: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@....com>
> 
> Handle cases where the RMP table placement in the BIOS is
> not 2M aligned and then the kexec kernel could try to allocate
> from within that chunk and that causes a fatal RMP fault.

Is this something that happens on existing systems currently so that it
needs to be fixed upstream?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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