Re: [GIT PULL] EFI fix

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Mon May 23 2016 - 08:34:08 EST


On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 01:08:01PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Mon, 16 May, at 01:05:45PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > I think the right fix is to just get rid of that silly conditional
> > frame pointer thing, and always use frame pointers in this stub
> > function. And then we don't need that (odd) load to get the old stack
> > pointer into %rax - we can just use the frame pointer.
> >
> > Something like the attached completely untested patch.
>
> Linus, are you going to apply your patch directly or would you prefer
> someone to send a pull request which also includes Josh's patch for
> arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S?

Ingo already merged both patches into tip:x86/urgent, so I'd presume
he'll be sending a pull request for them soon.

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Josh