Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Wed, 07 Sep 2016 08:51:24 -0500 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] kexec_file: Add buffer hand-over for the next kernel |
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Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> Hello, > > The purpose of this new version of the series is to fix a small issue that > I found, which is that the kernel doesn't remove the memory reservation > for the hand-over buffer it received from the previous kernel in the > device tree it sets up for the next kernel. The result is that for each > successive kexec, a stale hand-over buffer is left behind, wasting memory. > > This is fixed by changes to kexec_free_handover_buffer and > setup_handover_buffer in patch 2. The other change is to fix checkpatch > warnings in the last patch.
This is fundamentally broken. You do not increase the integrity of a system by dropping integrity checks.
No. No. No. No.
Nacked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Eric
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