Re: [GIT PULL] EFI urgent fix

[Ingo Molnar <mingo-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

* Matt Fleming <matt-mF/unelCI9GS6iBeEJttW/XRex20P6io@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
> 
> Folks, the below fix from Paolo addresses an issue causing 32-bit
> non-PAE kernels to triple fault on EFI boot. The issue is that the
> physical address of the GDT that gets used in efi_call_phys_prolog()
> won't be covered by the identitty mapping in initial_page_table.
> 
> The following changes since commit 8a53554e12e98d1759205afd7b8e9e2ea0936f48:
> 
>   x86/efi: Fix multiple GOP device support (2015-10-14 16:02:43 +0200)
> 
> 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 f5f3497cad8c8416a74b9aaceb127908755d020a:
> 
>   x86/setup: Extend low identity map to cover whole kernel range (2015-10-16 10:52:29 +0100)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>  * Ensure that the identity mapping in initial_page_table is updated
>    to cover the entire kernel range. This fixes a triple fault on
>    non-PAE kernels when booting on 32-bit EFI due to accessing an
>    unmapped GDT in efi_call_phys_prolog() - Paolo Bonzini
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Paolo Bonzini (1):
>       x86/setup: Extend low identity map to cover whole kernel range
> 
>  arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

Pulled, thanks Matt!

	Ingo