Re: [PATCH 4.9] x86/pti/efi: broken conversion from efi to kernel page table

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Jan 12 2018 - 08:58:56 EST



* Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The page table order must be increased for EFI table in order to avoid a
> bug where NMI tries to change the page table to kernel page table, while
> efi page table is active.
>
> For more disccussion about this bug, see this thread:
> http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.1/00951.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 11 +++++++++++
> arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Is there a Git tree/branch I could follow to see the very latest v4.9 PTI backport
commits?

Thanks,

Ingo