Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Mar 02 2016 - 16:47:07 EST


On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 01:35:09PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> You're not actually testing anything as the real issue is what happens
> with a relocating bootloader.

Hmm, how would that relocation happen so that va - __START_KERNEL_map
doesn't give pa?

Or do you mean something else with "relocating bootloader"? Do you know
of one which does that?

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Boris.

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