Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/fred: Fix stack depot filtering of FRED event stacks

[Yuanhe Shu <xiangzao@linux.alibaba.com>]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 02:26:05PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> This all makes sense to me.

Thanks for the review.

> I would in fact like to see the IDT-only code isolated so it can be poisoned
> if not used. The FRED code probably should be as well, although it is also
> used by KVM -- and potentially by other auxiliary users in the future -- so it
> might not make as much sense there.

For the IDT side the bounds at least exist already:
__irqentry_text_start..__irqentry_text_end wraps nothing but the
asm/idtentry.h expansion.  It is not page aligned and shares pages with
the neighbouring entry code, though, so overwriting it in place is one
thing and unmapping it another.

You are right about the FRED side: the range added here covers
asm_fred_entry_from_kvm() as well, so it cannot be poisoned wholesale even
on non-FRED hardware.  Either way that is separate from this fix.

Thanks,
Yuanhe