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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] EFI urgent fix
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:04:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151016100418.GA23046@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1444989706-11602-1-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>


* Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
> 
> 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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-16 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-16 10:01 [GIT PULL] EFI urgent fix Matt Fleming
2015-10-16 10:01 ` [PATCH] x86/setup: Extend low identity map to cover whole kernel range Matt Fleming
2015-10-16 10:04 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-04-12 15:27 [GIT PULL] EFI urgent fix Matt Fleming
2016-05-13 20:34 Matt Fleming
2015-11-04 10:47 Matt Fleming
2015-11-04 10:50 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-10-12 14:13 Matt Fleming

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