From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 0/3] arm64: EFI stub isolation
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 18:19:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151008171950.GP17192@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1444129424-8284-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 12:03:41PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> We need to ensure that the EFI stub only uses parts of the kernel proper
> that are safe to use when the kernel virtual mapping is not active yet.
>
> So move all C code dependencies to the libstub, and do a verification pass
> to ensure that no absolute relocations are used.
>
> On the arm64 side, annotate all the stub's dependencies as safe for PI
> (position independent
[...]
> Ard Biesheuvel (3):
> arm64/efi: remove /chosen/linux,uefi-stub-kern-ver DT property
> arm64: use ENDPIPROC() to annotate position independent assembler
> routines
> arm64/efi: isolate EFI stub from the kernel proper
The patches look fine to me. I haven't tested them yet since they don't
apply to the arm64 for-next/core cleanly and you said you are going to
repost the series anyway. I'll wait.
--
Catalin
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-08 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-06 11:03 [PATCH v3 0/3] arm64: EFI stub isolation Ard Biesheuvel
2015-10-06 11:03 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] arm64/efi: remove /chosen/linux, uefi-stub-kern-ver DT property Ard Biesheuvel
2015-10-13 1:18 ` Roy Franz
2015-10-06 11:03 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] arm64: use ENDPIPROC() to annotate position independent assembler routines Ard Biesheuvel
2015-10-06 11:03 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] arm64/efi: isolate EFI stub from the kernel proper Ard Biesheuvel
2015-10-08 17:19 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
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