Re: [PATCH v21 12/12] x86: Zero-pad the VVAR page

2014-03-02 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Stefani Seibold wrote: > By coincidence, the VVAR page is at the end of an ELF segment. As a > result, if it ends up being a partial page, the kernel loader will > leave garbage behind at the end of the vvar page. Zero-pad it to a > full page to fix this issue. > > This has probably been

[PATCH v21 12/12] x86: Zero-pad the VVAR page

2014-03-02 Thread Stefani Seibold
By coincidence, the VVAR page is at the end of an ELF segment. As a result, if it ends up being a partial page, the kernel loader will leave garbage behind at the end of the vvar page. Zero-pad it to a full page to fix this issue. This has probably been broken since the VVAR page was

[PATCH v21 12/12] x86: Zero-pad the VVAR page

2014-03-02 Thread Stefani Seibold
By coincidence, the VVAR page is at the end of an ELF segment. As a result, if it ends up being a partial page, the kernel loader will leave garbage behind at the end of the vvar page. Zero-pad it to a full page to fix this issue. This has probably been broken since the VVAR page was

Re: [PATCH v21 12/12] x86: Zero-pad the VVAR page

2014-03-02 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Stefani Seibold stef...@seibold.net wrote: By coincidence, the VVAR page is at the end of an ELF segment. As a result, if it ends up being a partial page, the kernel loader will leave garbage behind at the end of the vvar page. Zero-pad it to a full page to fix this issue. This has