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(p200300cbc74fd600c705bc2517b271c9.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [2003:cb:c74f:d600:c705:bc25:17b2:71c9]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id g17-20020a7bc4d1000000b003fc02e8ea68sm15188204wmk.13.2023.09.12.00.19.38 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:19:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <96f124d6-c1f2-adb3-1d3b-8329e85ff099@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 09:19:38 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.13.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/2] efi/unaccepted: Do not let /proc/vmcore try to access unaccepted memory To: Adrian Hunter , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Borislav Petkov , Andrew Morton , Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Dave Hansen , Vlastimil Babka , Mike Rapoport , Lorenzo Stoakes , Tom Lendacky , Baoquan He , Vivek Goyal , Dave Young , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-coco@lists.linux.dev, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org References: <20230911112114.91323-1-adrian.hunter@intel.com> <20230911112114.91323-2-adrian.hunter@intel.com> From: David Hildenbrand Organization: Red Hat In-Reply-To: <20230911112114.91323-2-adrian.hunter@intel.com> X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Language: en-US X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20230912_001944_067603_BB65FAB3 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 10.81 ) X-BeenThere: kexec@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: "kexec" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+kexec=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On 11.09.23 13:21, Adrian Hunter wrote: > Support for unaccepted memory was added recently, refer commit dcdfdd40fa82 > ("mm: Add support for unaccepted memory"), whereby a virtual machine may > need to accept memory before it can be used. > > Do not let /proc/vmcore try to access unaccepted memory because it can > cause the guest to fail. Oh, hold on. What are the actual side effects of this? Once we're in the kdump kernel, any guest is already dead. So failing a guest doesn't apply, no? -- Cheers, David / dhildenb _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec