Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Jul 2020 11:09:01 +0200 | From | Joerg Roedel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/idt: Make sure idt_table takes a whole page |
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On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 06:48:03PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > But with explicit sections which store only page aligned objects there > is an implicit guarantee that the object is alone in the page in which > it is placed. That works for all objects except the last one. That's > inconsistent. > > By enforcing page sized objects for this section you might also wreckage > memory sanitizers, because your object is artificially larger than it > should be and out of bound access becomes legit.
Okay, valid points about the consistency and the memory sanitizers. I'll submit a patch for the linker scripts soon.
Regards,
Joerg
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