[PATCH V2 1/2] efi/unaccepted: Do not let /proc/vmcore try to access unaccepted memory

David Hildenbrand david at redhat.com
Tue Sep 12 00:19:38 PDT 2023


On 11.09.23 13:21, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> Support for unaccepted memory was added recently, refer commit dcdfdd40fa82
> ("mm: Add support for unaccepted memory"), whereby a virtual machine may
> need to accept memory before it can be used.
> 
> Do not let /proc/vmcore try to access unaccepted memory because it can
> cause the guest to fail.

Oh, hold on. What are the actual side effects of this?

Once we're in the kdump kernel, any guest is already dead. So failing a 
guest doesn't apply, no?

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb




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