Hi,
>
> > As you pointed out above, a wild pointer could cause a
> > WARN from early_ioremap. We need to never follow the pointer in the
> > first place after a kexec, unless we have some way to know that it's
> > actually valid.
>
> So you assume that the information from ACPI is always correct then?
> The pointer is correct, the information it points to is no longer.
>
> If we run always under EFI then it looks like the variable efi_setup
> which is checked in efi_enter_virtual_mode() is 0 during normal boot
> and != 0 on kexec entry. This hint is set via setup_data / SETUP_EFI
> since commit 1fec053369 ("x86/efi: Pass necessary EFI data for kexec
> via setup_data"). So maybe we could use this to check if we run under
> kexec or not.
Not sure if BGRT is useful in kexec kernel, it seems not worth to copy
it between kernels.
IMO just return in case if (efi_setup) is true make sense.
Thanks
Dave
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