From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: T Makphaibulchoke <tmac@hp.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, x86@kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, yinghai@kernel.org, tiwai@suse.de,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, aarcange@redhat.com,
tony.luck@intel.com, mgorman@suse.de, weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
octavian.purdila@intel.com, paul.gortmaker@windriver.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix devmem_is_allowed for below 1MB accesses for an efi machine
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:50:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <506B6191.6080605@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1349213536-3436-1-git-send-email-tmac@hp.com>
On 10/02/2012 02:32 PM, T Makphaibulchoke wrote:
> Changing devmem_is_allowed so that on an EFI machine, access to physical
> address below 1 MB is allowed only to physical pages that are valid in
> the EFI memory map. This prevents the possibility of an MCE due to
> accessing an invalid physical address.
What?
That sounds like exactly the opposite of normal /dev/mem behavior... we
allow access to non-memory resources (which really could do anything if
misused), but not memory.
You seem like you're flipping it on its head.
-hpa
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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: T Makphaibulchoke <tmac@hp.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, x86@kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, yinghai@kernel.org, tiwai@suse.de,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, aarcange@redhat.com,
tony.luck@intel.com, mgorman@suse.de, weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
octavian.purdila@intel.com, paul.gortmaker@windriver.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix devmem_is_allowed for below 1MB accesses for an efi machine
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:50:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <506B6191.6080605@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1349213536-3436-1-git-send-email-tmac@hp.com>
On 10/02/2012 02:32 PM, T Makphaibulchoke wrote:
> Changing devmem_is_allowed so that on an EFI machine, access to physical
> address below 1 MB is allowed only to physical pages that are valid in
> the EFI memory map. This prevents the possibility of an MCE due to
> accessing an invalid physical address.
What?
That sounds like exactly the opposite of normal /dev/mem behavior... we
allow access to non-memory resources (which really could do anything if
misused), but not memory.
You seem like you're flipping it on its head.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-02 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-02 21:32 [PATCH] Fix devmem_is_allowed for below 1MB accesses for an efi machine T Makphaibulchoke
2012-10-02 21:32 ` T Makphaibulchoke
2012-10-02 21:50 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-10-02 21:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-03 4:31 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-03 4:31 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-03 4:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-03 4:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-03 5:15 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-03 5:15 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-03 5:13 ` Thavatchai Makphaibulchoke
2012-10-03 5:13 ` Thavatchai Makphaibulchoke
2012-10-03 5:28 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-03 5:28 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-03 5:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-03 5:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-03 5:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-03 5:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2012-10-04 20:07 ` Randy Wright
2012-10-04 21:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
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