[PATCH v3] efi/arm64: handle missing virtual mapping for UEFI System Table

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 7 July 2014 22:11, Matt Fleming <matt at console-pimps.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Jul, at 08:25:35AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>>
>> OK, I’ll leave it to Matt then together with the other EFI patches
>> he’s already queuing.
>
> Thanks guys.
>
> What release are we targetting with this patch? Is it a bug fix for
> something likely to affect people? Have there been reports of users
> actually hitting this issue?
>
> We're at -rc4 now, so there's still time for getting bug fixes to Linus
> but we may start being asked for justification from the tip folks en
> route to Linus.
>
> If it's just a case of improving the error paths, can it wait until
> v3.17?
>

This fixes a potential panic under buggy firmware, but no reports of
this actual bug are known, so there is no justification for a late
merge for 3.16.

Thanks,
Ard.