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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: efi: avoid BUILD_BUG_ON() for non-constant p4d_index
On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 11:13:18PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 04:43:58PM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> > This should check EFI_VA_END instead of EFI_VA_START, and maybe throw in
> > a BUG_ON if EFI_VA_END >= EFI_VA_START.
>
> No need:
>
> if (efi_va < EFI_VA_END) {
> pr_warn(FW_WARN "VA address range overflow!\n");
> return;
> }
>
> We already check we're not going over at map time. And our runtime
> services range is hardcoded. And we're switching to that PGD on each
> runtime services call.
>
> So I don't see the point for keeping any of the assertions.
>
> Unless you have other valid arguments for keeping them...
>

No, I don't have any objections to removing them altogether. All the
comments other than the one about changing the #define's only apply if
it's decided to keep them.

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