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Cédric Le Goater
ed5b00a05c
The "ibm,arch-vec-5-platform-support" property is a list of pairs of
bytes representing the options and values supported by the platform
firmware. At boot time, Linux scans this list and activates the
available features it recognizes : Radix and XIVE.
A recent change modified the number of entries to loop on and 8 bytes,
4 pairs of { options, values } entries are always scanned. This is
fine on KVM but not on PowerVM which can advertises less. As a
consequence on this platform, Linux reads extra entries pointing to
random data, interprets these as available features and tries to
activate them, leading to a firmware crash in
ibm,client-architecture-support.
Fix that by using the property length of "ibm,arch-vec-5-platform-support".
Fixes: ab91239942 ("powerpc/prom: Remove VLA in prom_check_platform_support()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.20+
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210122075029.797013-1-clg@kaod.org
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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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.