Re: [PATCH] x86/idt: Make sure idt_table takes a whole page

[Joerg Roedel]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 06:48:03PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> But with explicit sections which store only page aligned objects there
> is an implicit guarantee that the object is alone in the page in which
> it is placed. That works for all objects except the last one. That's
> inconsistent.
> 
> By enforcing page sized objects for this section you might also wreckage
> memory sanitizers, because your object is artificially larger than it
> should be and out of bound access becomes legit.

Okay, valid points about the consistency and the memory sanitizers. I'll
submit a patch for the linker scripts soon.

Regards,

	Joerg