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    Revert "x86/mm: Limit mmap() of /dev/mem to valid physical addresses" · 90edaac6
    Ingo Molnar authored
    This reverts commit ce56a86e
    
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    There's unanticipated interaction with some boot parameters like 'mem=',
    which now cause the new checks via valid_mmap_phys_addr_range() to be too
    restrictive, crashing a Qemu bootup in fact, as reported by Fengguang Wu.
    
    So while the motivation of the change is still entirely valid, we
    need a few more rounds of testing to get it right - it's way too late
    after -rc6, so revert it for now.
    
    Reported-by: default avatarFengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarCraig Bergstrom <craigb@google.com>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
    Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
    Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
    Cc: dsafonov@virtuozzo.com
    Cc: kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
    Cc: mhocko@suse.com
    Cc: oleg@redhat.com
    Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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