From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Fleming Subject: [GIT PULL] EFI urgent fix Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 10:46:51 +0100 Message-ID: <20140806094651.GU15082@console-pimps.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-efi-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner , linux-efi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Bruno =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pr=E9mont?= List-Id: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Folks, please pull the following fix. It's something that Peter and I talked about a while ago, and it seems that people are actually hitting issues without this patch and have been since v3.13. The following changes since commit c7fb93ec51d462ec3540a729ba446663c26a0505: x86/efi: Include a .bss section within the PE/COFF headers (2014-07-10 14:21:39 +0100) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi.git tags/efi-urgent for you to fetch changes up to 7b2a583afb4ab894f78bc0f8bd136e96b6499a7e: x86/efi: Enforce CONFIG_RELOCATABLE for EFI boot stub (2014-08-05 22:01:04 +0100) ---------------------------------------------------------------- * Enforce CONFIG_RELOCATABLE for the x86 EFI boot stub, otherwise it's possible to overwrite random pieces of unallocated memory during kernel decompression, leading to machine resets. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Fleming (1): x86/efi: Enforce CONFIG_RELOCATABLE for EFI boot stub arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center