From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>
To: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>,
Bartosz Szczepanek <bsz@semihalf.com>,
Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>,
linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] efi+tpm: Don't access event->count when it isn't mapped.
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 10:44:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACdnJuuB_ExhOOtA8Uh7WO42TSNfRHuGaK4Xo=5SbdfWDKr7wA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190826162823.4mxkwhd7mbtro3zy@linux.intel.com>
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 9:28 AM Jarkko Sakkinen
<jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 11:30:27AM -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
> > Some machines generate a lot of event log entries. When we're
> > iterating over them, the code removes the old mapping and adds a
> > new one, so once we cross the page boundary we're unmapping the page
> > with the count on it. Hilarity ensues.
> >
> > This patch keeps the info from the header in local variables so we don't
> > need to access that page again or keep track of if it's mapped.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
> > Tested-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>
Jarkko, these two should probably go to 5.3 if possible - I
independently had a report of a system hitting this issue last week
(Intel apparently put a surprising amount of data in the event logs on
the NUCs).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-26 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-26 15:30 [PATCH 1/2] efi+tpm: Don't access event->count when it isn't mapped Peter Jones
2019-08-26 15:30 ` [PATCH 2/2] efi+tpm: don't traverse an event log with no events Peter Jones
2019-08-26 16:30 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-08-26 17:45 ` Matthew Garrett
2019-08-31 16:46 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2019-08-26 16:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] efi+tpm: Don't access event->count when it isn't mapped Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-08-26 17:44 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2019-08-27 11:03 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-08-27 13:41 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-08-27 16:00 ` Matthew Garrett
2019-08-27 22:11 ` Peter Jones
2019-08-29 13:21 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-08-31 16:11 ` Ard Biesheuvel
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