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

[Tom Lendacky]

On 3/22/24 11:10, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> 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?

Maybe, but that wouldn't explain the first fix in the series. I should've 
encountered an issue no matter what. I probably used the wrong config file 
or ...  who knows at this point.

Thanks,
Tom

> > 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>