Re: [PATCH 0/3] Resolve problems with kexec identity mapping

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 04:27:04PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 10:13:44AM -0500, Steve Wahl wrote:
> > These accesses are a problem because they happen prior to establishing
> > the page fault interrupt handler that would mend the identity map.  I
> > know very little about the AMD SEV feature but reading the code I
> > think it may be required to do this before setting up that handler.
> 
> Yeah, from looking at it, we should be able to establish a #PF handler that
> early too but the devil's in the detail, especially in that early boot code.
> 
> Lemme poke some things and people...

Ard, from EFI perspective and boot services exiting, do you see any potential
issues if we enable a pagefault handler in load_stage1_idt() in
arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S already or is the EFI pagetable not really
"reliable" then?

Would solve the issue in this thread where the EFI config table ends up not
mapped on some hw configurations, elegantly...

Thx.

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