Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Aug 2019 08:06:38 -0400 | From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.2 51/76] x86/boot/compressed/64: Fix boot on machines with broken E820 table |
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On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 01:17:23AM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: >On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 02:12:46PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: >> From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> >> >> [ Upstream commit 0a46fff2f9108c2c44218380a43a736cf4612541 ] >> >> BIOS on Samsung 500C Chromebook reports very rudimentary E820 table that >> consists of 2 entries: >> >> BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000fff] usable >> BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fffff000-0x00000000ffffffff] reserved >> >> It breaks logic in find_trampoline_placement(): bios_start lands on the >> end of the first 4k page and trampoline start gets placed below 0. >> >> Detect underflow and don't touch bios_start for such cases. It makes >> kernel ignore E820 table on machines that doesn't have two usable pages >> below BIOS_START_MAX. >> >> Fixes: 1b3a62643660 ("x86/boot/compressed/64: Validate trampoline placement against E820") >> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> >> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> >> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> >> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> >> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> >> Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org> >> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203463 >> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813131654.24378-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com >> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> > >Please postpone backporting the patch (and into other trees). There's a >fixup for it: > >http://lore.kernel.org/r/20190826133326.7cxb4vbmiawffv2r@box
Sure. Should I just queue it up for a week or two later (along with the fixes), or do you want to let me know when?
-- Thanks, Sasha
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