Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fixes for recent x86/boot rip-relative addressing changes

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 at 17:41, Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch series provides fixes for the recent x86/boot rip-relative
> addressing changes that causes system crashes when booting with 5-level
> pagetables and SME active.
>
> I thought I had tested 5-level paging with SME, but must have missed
> it. There are two patches to fix the issues that can be squashed into
> a single patch with multiple Fixes: tags if desired.
>

Perhaps you tested the entire series, where the final patch removed
those variables altogether?

> The second patch is sort of a revert, but instead uses the newer
> RIP_REL_REF() macro instead of reverting the fix and continuing to use
> the fixup_pointer() support.
>

Thanks for fixing this.

Series

Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>