Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754444AbcCMR4Z (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:56:25 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f45.google.com ([74.125.82.45]:33596 "EHLO mail-wm0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754144AbcCMR4R (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:56:17 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:56:11 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Matt Fleming Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, dvlasenk@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org, bp@alien8.de, luto@amacapital.net, amurzeau@gmail.com, ben@decadent.org.uk, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, tglx@linutronix.de, hertzog@debian.org, maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, brgerst@gmail.com, rogershimizu@gmail.com, peterz@infradead.org, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/efi: Fix boot crash by always mapping boot service regions into new EFI page tables Message-ID: <20160313175611.GA24113@gmail.com> References: <1457695163-29632-2-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> <20160312230225.GT15775@codeblueprint.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160312230225.GT15775@codeblueprint.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1086 Lines: 28 * Matt Fleming wrote: > On Sat, 12 Mar, at 10:57:39AM, tip-bot for Matt Fleming wrote: > > Commit-ID: 452308de61056a539352a9306c46716d7af8a1f1 > > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/452308de61056a539352a9306c46716d7af8a1f1 > > Author: Matt Fleming > > AuthorDate: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 11:19:23 +0000 > > Committer: Ingo Molnar > > CommitDate: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 16:57:45 +0100 > > > > x86/efi: Fix boot crash by always mapping boot service regions into new EFI page tables > > Ingo, I see you picked this up for x86/urgent, but note that the bug > isn't actually triggerable until the stuff in tip/efi/core gets > merged. I'd suggest sticking this patch in tip/efi/core also. Oh well ... too late for that, it's now upstream. > It should be harmless to merge this patch before that, but the > references to separate EFI page tables don't make sense. Yeah, indeed. It's my bad: we merged the EFI-pagetables code back in November and I forgot that we skipped its upstream merge twice ... Thanks, Ingo