x86/e820: Don't reserve SETUP_RNG_SEED in e820
authorJiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:04:28 +0000 (01:04 +0100)
committerDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Fri, 1 Mar 2024 18:27:20 +0000 (10:27 -0800)
commit7fd817c906503b6813ea3b41f5fdf4192449a707
treecf0634281c180821eb74cfcae836867353423cf1
parent6890cb1ace350b4386c8aee1343dc3b3ddd214da
x86/e820: Don't reserve SETUP_RNG_SEED in e820

SETUP_RNG_SEED in setup_data is supplied by kexec and should
not be reserved in the e820 map.

Doing so reserves 16 bytes of RAM when booting with kexec.
(16 bytes because data->len is zeroed by parse_setup_data so only
sizeof(setup_data) is reserved.)

When kexec is used repeatedly, each boot adds two entries in the
kexec-provided e820 map as the 16-byte range splits a larger
range of usable memory. Eventually all of the 128 available entries
get used up. The next split will result in losing usable memory
as the new entries cannot be added to the e820 map.

Fixes: 68b8e9713c8e ("x86/setup: Use rng seeds from setup_data")
Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZbmOjKnARGiaYBd5@dwarf.suse.cz
arch/x86/kernel/e820.c