From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au (Herbert Xu) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 23:02:42 +1100 Subject: [PATCH 0/7] arm64: move literal data into .rodata section In-Reply-To: References: <20180110121142.18291-1-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> <20180118114112.GA20091@gondor.apana.org.au> Message-ID: <20180118120242.GE20717@gondor.apana.org.au> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 11:46:07AM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On 18 January 2018 at 11:41, Herbert Xu wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:11:35PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > >> Prevent inadvertently creating speculative gadgets by moving literal data > >> into the .rodata section. > >> > >> Patch #1 enables this for C code, by reverting a change that disables the > >> GCC feature implementing this. Note that this conflicts with the mitigation > >> of erratum #843419 for Cortex-A53. > > > > Ard, which tree is this supposed to go through? > > > > Hi Herbert, > > I am going to drop that first patch, the remaining 6 patches can go > through the crypto tree as they are independent. Patches 2-7 applied. Thanks. -- Email: Herbert Xu Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt