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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Kyle Pelton <kyle.d.pelton@intel.com>,
	Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: Handle physical-virtual alignment mismatch in phys_p4d_init()
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 07:42:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ecd0603-e847-1cae-bafa-e892d79b7259@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190620112239.28346-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

On 6/20/19 4:22 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> The commit relaxes KASLR alignment requirements and it can lead to
> mismatch bentween 'i' and 'p4d_index(vaddr)' inside the loop in
> phys_p4d_init(). The mismatch in its turn leads to clearing wrong p4d
> entry and eventually to the oops.

Just curious, but what does it relax the requirement to and from?

I'm just not clearly spotting the actual bug.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-20 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-20 11:22 [PATCH] x86/mm: Handle physical-virtual alignment mismatch in phys_p4d_init() Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-06-20 14:42 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2019-06-20 23:15   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-06-20 23:27     ` Dave Hansen
2019-06-23 11:27     ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-06-21  9:02 ` Baoquan He
2019-06-21 10:54   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-06-24 10:07     ` Baoquan He
2019-06-24 12:23       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-06-24 13:43         ` Baoquan He

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