[PATCH v3 0/4] efi/arm64: work around Image placement issues

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Aug 2 04:26:13 PDT 2021


On Mon, 2021-07-26 at 16:51 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Ben reported that distro GRUB may fail to boot in some circumstances,
> and tracked it down to an issue in the way distro GRUB allocates space
> for the image. Due to an oversight (addressed in patch #2), this
> condition is rarely triggered, but let's work around it in any case (#1)
> 
> Remaining patches add further warnings for conditions that are unlikely
> to occur, but should not be ignored.
> 
> Build tested only.
> 
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>

All 4 patches:

Tested-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>

I checked that it catches all of the errors, including reverting my fix
for randomalloc.c and verifying that it caught (and successfully worked
around) the original boot  crash.

Cheers,
Ben.




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