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Description of problem:
EFI/UEFI page table initialization in commit 19774aa25f2127f47f38f280f4bd44d7e156771c uses EFI's memory descriptor type
like an attribute mask. The type field of the memory descriptor is an enumerated
type. This incorrect discrimination of type results in nearly all types of
EFI memory descriptors being accessible from EFI. This was not the intent
of the initialization routine efi_pagetable_init. Only EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_CODE
and EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_DATA pte entries should be constructed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
6.0

How reproducible:
Any x86_64 EFI/UEFI booted machine.

Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected results:


Additional info:

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has 
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed 
products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release.

Patch(es) available on kernel-2.6.32-89.el6

Any plan for 6.0.z? Recently I noticed that kdump did not work on Fujitsu
server without this patch when the server has large memory(1TB memory). I
think this patch(and also bz668825) is necessary for 6.0.z.

(In reply to comment #8)
> Any plan for 6.0.z? Recently I noticed that kdump did not work on Fujitsu
> server without this patch when the server has large memory(1TB memory). I
> think this patch(and also bz668825) is necessary for 6.0.z.

bz# 664364 is what corrected Fujitsu according to testing in this bz. bz#  654665
isn't related. As for 6.0.z I would think Fujitsu can answer.

Ok, I'll ask Fujitsu about it, thanks.

> Any new updates or comments from Fujitsu on this one?

Yeah, Fujitsu requested fix for 6.0.z on CASE#00412086, and it seems that RH'll provide hotfix instead of errata.