From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UEFI: Don't pass boot services regions to SetVirtualAddressMap()
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:23:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51B08D4E.7020806@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1370211145-7273-1-git-send-email-matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
On 02/06/13 23:12, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> We need to map boot services regions during startup in order to avoid
> firmware bugs, but we shouldn't be passing those regions to
> SetVirtualAddressMap(). Ensure that we're only passing regions that are
> marked as being mapped at runtime.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
This doesn't fix a crash or regression, right? If it's a "this just
makes more sense" patch, I'll queue it up in the 'next' branch for
v3.11.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-06 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-02 22:12 [PATCH] UEFI: Don't pass boot services regions to SetVirtualAddressMap() Matthew Garrett
2013-06-04 6:58 ` Matt Fleming
2013-06-04 12:27 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-06 13:23 ` Matt Fleming [this message]
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