Re: [PATCH 0/2] iommu/amd: Use MAX buffer size when SNP is enabled on Family 0x19
Usama Arif <[email protected]>
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On 13/08/2026 14:35, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2026 at 06:18:30AM -0700, Usama Arif wrote: >> On Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:42:02 +0000 Vasant Hegde <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> This series addresses CVE-2023-20585 [1] by increasing the AMD IOMMU >>> Event log and PPR log buffer sizes to the maximum supported value (512K) >>> on affected CPU families when SNP is enabled. >>> >>> Use MAX buffer size when SNP is enabled on Milan/Genoa. Impacted buffers: >>> - Milan : Event log (PPR/GALog is not supported when SNP is enabled) >>> - Genoa : Event and PPR log (GALog is not supported when SNP is enabled) >>> >> >> Hi, >> >> This series seems to break kexec in our production on Milan hosts with SEV enabled. >> This is on the 6.18.43 stable kernel backport. >> >> If on top of 6.18.43 release, we revert the 2 commits, i.e. >> Revert "iommu/amd: Use maximum PPR log buffer size when SNP is enabled on Family 0x19" >> Revert "iommu/amd: Use maximum Event log buffer size when SNP is enabled on Family 0x19" >> >> kexec starts working again. > > This sounds like the same issue Nicolin is facing on SMMUv3, these > larger allocations OOM the kexec kernel > > Jason Thanks Jason! Was there any solution for this issue. Could you point to a lore link for this?