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From: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:40:22 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/37] 4.4.110-stable review
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
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If it is better to resubmit this patch via git send-email, please let me know.

Thank you,
Pavel

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 1:36 PM, Pavel Tatashin
<pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> wrote:
> I have root caused the memory corruption panics/hangs that I've been
> experiencing during boot with the latest 4.4.110 kernel. The problem
> as was suspected by Andy Lutomirski is with interaction between PTI
> and EFI. It may affect any system that has EFI bios.  I have not
> verified if it can affect any other kernel beside 4.4.110
>
> Attached is the fix for this issue with explanations that Steve
> Sistare and I developed.