[patch 03/12 v4] efi: reserve boot service fix

dyoung at redhat.com dyoung at redhat.com
Mon Nov 25 03:56:33 EST 2013


Hi,
References: <20131125085630.417850406 at dhcp-16-126.nay.redhat.com>
Content-Disposition: inline; filename=03-boot-service-fix.patch

Current code check boot service region with kernel text region by: 
start+size >= __pa_symbol(_text)
The end of the above region should be start + size - 1 instead.

I see this problem in ovmf + Fedora 19 grub boot:
text start: 1000000 md start: 800000 md size: 800000

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp at suse.de>
Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani at hp.com>
---
 arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ void __init efi_reserve_boot_services(vo
 		 * - Not within any part of the kernel
 		 * - Not the bios reserved area
 		*/
-		if ((start+size >= __pa_symbol(_text)
+		if ((start + size > __pa_symbol(_text)
 				&& start <= __pa_symbol(_end)) ||
 			!e820_all_mapped(start, start+size, E820_RAM) ||
 			memblock_is_region_reserved(start, size)) {




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