Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

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> Well, in the Xen case, where the pages are simply not mapped, then
> the signature simply won't exist.  In other cases, I guess its
> possible the signature might exist but the rest of the ROM doesn't,
> but that won't happen on normal hardware.

In your opinion, is the attached (versus 2.6.20-rc3) better? This uses 
probe_kernel_address() for all accesses. Or rather, an expanded version 
thereof. The set_fs() and pagefault_{disable,enable} calls are only done 
once in probe_roms().

Accessing the length byte at rom[2] with __get_user() is overkill after 
just checking the signature at 0 and 1 but direcly accessing only that 
makes for inconsistent code IMO. It's only a .fixup entry...

I can't say I'm all that sure that that pagefault_disable() call is 
still applicable now that it got expanded into the probe_roms() stage?

Rene.