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Booting x86_64 with CONFIG_EFI_PGT_DUMP=y shows messages of the form "mm/pgtable-generic.c:53: bad pmd (____ptrval____)(8000000100077061)". EFI_PGT_DUMP dumps all of efi_mm, including the espfix area, which is set up with pmd entries which fit the pmd_bad() check: so 0d940a9b270b warns and clears those entries, which would ruin running Win16 binaries. The failing pte_offset_map() stopped such a kernel from even booting, until a few commits later be872f83bf57 changed the pagewalk to tolerate that: but it needs to be even more careful, to not spoil those entries. I might have preferred to change init_espfix_ap() not to use "bad" pmd entries; or to leave them out of the efi_mm dump. But there is great value in staying away from there, and a pagewalk check of address against TASK_SIZE may protect from other such aberrations too. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/22bca736-4cab-9ee5-6a52-73a3b2bbe865@google.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CABXGCsN3JqXckWO=V7p=FhPU1tK03RE1w9UE6xL5Y86SMk209w@mail.gmail.com/ Fixes: 0d940a9b270b ("mm/pgtable: allow pte_offset_map[_lock]() to fail") Fixes: be872f83bf57 ("mm/pagewalk: walk_pte_range() allow for pte_offset_map()") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reported-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com> Tested-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com> Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.