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From: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb+git@google.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, will@kernel.org,
	catalin.marinas@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] arm64/boot: Forbid the use of BSS symbols in startup code
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 18:10:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aB428b2F9qzE0zCI@e129823.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250508114328.2460610-5-ardb+git@google.com>

Hi Ard,
> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
>
> Move any variables accessed or assigned by the startup code out of BSS,
> and into .data, so that we can forbid the use of BSS variables
> altogether, by ASSERT()'ing in the linker script that each symbol made
> available to the startup code lives before __bss_start in the linker
> map.
>
> Changes since v1:
> - fix build error due to missing declaration in #1
> - work around Clang complaining about the ASSERT() expression in the
>   linker script
>
> Cc: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>

Sorry for late.
with commit 117c3b21d3c7 ("arm64: Rework checks for broken Cavium HW in the PI code"):

Tested-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>

Thanks!

>
> Ard Biesheuvel (3):
>   arm64/boot: Move init_pgdir[] and init_idmap_pgdir[] into __pi_
>     namespace
>   arm64/boot: Move global CPU override variables out of BSS
>   arm64/boot: Disallow BSS exports to startup code
>
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h |  2 -
>  arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c   | 22 +++----
>  arch/arm64/kernel/head.S         |  6 +-
>  arch/arm64/kernel/image-vars.h   | 66 ++++++++++----------
>  arch/arm64/kernel/pi/pi.h        |  1 +
>  arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S  | 10 +--
>  6 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: 363cd2b81cfdf706bbfc9ec78db000c9b1ecc552
> --
> 2.49.0.987.g0cc8ee98dc-goog
>

--
Sincerely,
Yeoreum Yun


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-05-09 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-08 11:43 [PATCH v2 0/3] arm64/boot: Forbid the use of BSS symbols in startup code Ard Biesheuvel
2025-05-08 11:43 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] arm64/boot: Move init_pgdir[] and init_idmap_pgdir[] into __pi_ namespace Ard Biesheuvel
2025-05-08 11:43 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] arm64/boot: Move global CPU override variables out of BSS Ard Biesheuvel
2025-05-08 11:43 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] arm64/boot: Disallow BSS exports to startup code Ard Biesheuvel
2025-05-08 13:34   ` Yeoreum Yun
2025-05-08 13:41     ` Yeoreum Yun
2025-05-09  6:43     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2025-05-08 13:47   ` kernel test robot
2025-05-09 17:10 ` Yeoreum Yun [this message]
2025-05-16 15:37 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] arm64/boot: Forbid the use of BSS symbols in " Will Deacon

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