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Commit 9bfc04f9 authored by Janosch Frank's avatar Janosch Frank Committed by Christian Borntraeger
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pc-bios: s390x: Save iplb location in lowcore


The POP states that for a list directed IPL the IPLB is stored into
memory by the machine loader and its address is stored at offset 0x14
of the lowcore.

ZIPL currently uses the address in offset 0x14 to access the IPLB and
acquire flags about secure boot. If the IPLB address points into
memory which has an unsupported mix of flags set, ZIPL will panic
instead of booting the OS.

As the lowcore can have quite a high entropy for a guest that did drop
out of protected mode (i.e. rebooted) we encountered the ZIPL panic
quite often.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJanosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: default avatarMarc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.ibm.com>
Message-Id: <20200304114231.23493-19-frankja@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
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