Re: [GIT PULL] EFI fix

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue May 24 2016 - 05:04:18 EST


* Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

Correct, I plan to send them later today.

Thanks,

Ingo