ebiederm at xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes: > Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes: > >> Hello, >> >> The purpose of this new version of the series is to fix a small issue that >> I found, which is that the kernel doesn't remove the memory reservation >> for the hand-over buffer it received from the previous kernel in the >> device tree it sets up for the next kernel. The result is that for each >> successive kexec, a stale hand-over buffer is left behind, wasting memory. >> >> This is fixed by changes to kexec_free_handover_buffer and >> setup_handover_buffer in patch 2. The other change is to fix checkpatch >> warnings in the last patch. > > This is fundamentally broken. You do not increase the integrity of a > system by dropping integrity checks. > > No. No. No. No. > > Nacked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com> To be constructive the way we have handled similiar situations in the past (hotplu memory) is to call kexec_load again. Eric
