Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] x86: enforce and cleanup RIP-relative accesses in early boot code

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Jan 31 2024 - 09:01:23 EST


On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 10:08:43PM +0000, Kevin Loughlin wrote:
> Instead, this patchset continues the approach of fixing the immediate
> problem of SEV-SNP boots crashing when built by clang, providing a
> backport-friendly set of changes needed to successfully boot SEV-SNP
> hosts and guests.

What use cases are those exactly? How do I reproduce them here?

SNP is not upstream yet and the SEV* code has been out there for a while
now without a single such report so this must be something new happening
due to <raisins>...?

Thx.

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