From: Matt Fleming <matt-HNK1S37rvNbeXh+fF434Mdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
To: linux-efi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Cc: linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
Matt Fleming
<matt.fleming-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/5] efivars compat support
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 19:59:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1395259200-27732-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org> (raw)
From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Apparently people are running 32-bit userland on top of 64-bit kernels
and wanting to interact with efivars. At the moment this doesn't work
all too well because 'struct efi_variable' (the data blob passed between
userland and kernel) contains unsigned long data items, leading to
incompatibilities and tears.
We can fix this up fairly trivially in the kernel by using
is_compat_task() and doing a small amount of data munging.
Matt Fleming (5):
efivars: Use local variables instead of a pointer dereference
efivars: Check size of user object
efivars: Stop passing a struct argument to efivar_validate()
efivars: Refactor sanity checking code into separate function
efivars: Add compatibility code for compat tasks
drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c | 192 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c | 30 +++----
include/linux/efi.h | 6 +-
3 files changed, 181 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
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1.8.5.3
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2014-03-19 19:59 Matt Fleming [this message]
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2014-03-19 19:59 ` [PATCH 1/5] efivars: Use local variables instead of a pointer dereference Matt Fleming
2014-03-19 19:59 ` [PATCH 2/5] efivars: Check size of user object Matt Fleming
2014-03-19 19:59 ` [PATCH 3/5] efivars: Stop passing a struct argument to efivar_validate() Matt Fleming
2014-03-19 19:59 ` [PATCH 4/5] efivars: Refactor sanity checking code into separate function Matt Fleming
2014-03-19 20:00 ` [PATCH 5/5] efivars: Add compatibility code for compat tasks Matt Fleming
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