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SubjectRE: [PATCH v3] x86/mce: retrieve poison range from hardware
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> It appears the kernel is trusting that ->physical_addr_mask is non-zero
> in other paths. So this is at least equally broken in the presence of a
> broken BIOS. The impact is potentially larger though with this change,
> so it might be a good follow-on patch to make sure that
> ->physical_addr_mask gets fixed up to a minimum mask value.

Agreed. Separate patch to sanitize early, so other kernel code can just use it.

-Tony

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