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

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Mon, 2 Aug 2021 at 13:26, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Excellent. Thanks for tracking this down and getting it fixed properly.