Re: [PATCH] /proc/kcore: Update physical address for kcore ram and text

2017-02-23 Thread Baoquan He
CC Eric too. On 02/13/17 at 02:25pm, Kees Cook wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Pratyush Anand wrote: > > CCing Andrew and Kees for their review comments. > > > > > > On Wednesday 25 January 2017 10:14 AM, Pratyush Anand wrote: > >> Currently all the p_paddr of

Re: [PATCH] /proc/kcore: Update physical address for kcore ram and text

2017-02-23 Thread Pratyush Anand
Hi Andrew/Kees, On Tuesday 14 February 2017 07:16 AM, Pratyush Anand wrote: Well, CONFIG_PROC_KCORE is a generalized root KASLR exposure (though there are lots of such exposures). Why is the actual physical address needed? Can this just report the virtual address instead? Then the tool can

[PATCH v4] x86/mce: Don't participate in rendezvous process once nmi_shootdown_cpus() was made

2017-02-23 Thread Xunlei Pang
We met an issue for kdump: after kdump kernel boots up, and there comes a broadcasted mce in first kernel, the other cpus remaining in first kernel will enter the old mce handler of first kernel, then timeout and panic due to MCE synchronization, finally reset the kdump cpus. This patch lets cpus

Re: [PATCH v2] gitignore: add two generated files in purgatory

2017-02-23 Thread Pratyush Anand
On Tuesday 21 February 2017 09:48 PM, Eric DeVolder wrote: This patch adds the two generated files below to .gitignore, so that 'git status' does not complain about them. purgatory/purgatory.map purgatory/purgatory.ro.sym Signed-off-by: Eric DeVolder I think, it