Re: [PATCH resend 0/4] virt: vboxguest: Fix vboxguest module not working on VMs with more then 4G of RAM

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Apr 18 2018 - 11:48:00 EST


On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 03:24:46PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> I know you are not entirely happy with the direct get_pages usage in this
> patch-set, but as discussed that is currently the only way to get DMA32
> memory.
>
> Adding a better API for getting DMA32 mem really falls outside of the scope
> of these patches and in the mean time the vboxguest driver is broken on
> VMs with more then 4G RAM, can we please get this bug-fix series merged to
> fix this bug?

I'm on the road all this week, let me catch up with patches next week...