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From: Evgeniy Baskov <baskov@ispras.ru>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>,
	lvc-project@linuxtesting.org, x86@kernel.org,
	linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/16] x86/build: Make generated PE more spec compliant
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 16:07:19 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9c9192e0509b696f46e559d447769b30@ispras.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMj1kXHeirfD07He4TDZepZr2HSXqwvDcuFG=iT8sgRA3t5-SQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 2022-10-19 10:39, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Sept 2022 at 12:42, Evgeniy Baskov <baskov@ispras.ru> wrote:
>> 
>> Currently kernel image is not fully compliant PE image, so it may
>> fail to boot with stricter implementations of UEFI PE loaders.
>> 
>> Set minimal alignments and sizes specified by PE documentation [1]
>> referenced by UEFI specification [2]. Align PE header to 8 bytes.
> 
> 
>> Generate '.reloc' section with 2 entries and set reloc data directory.
> 
> Why?

It seems to me that I saw minimal size requirement in MS documentation,
but now I cannot find the proof of my words, so I've probably misread.
So I'll drop this change.
> 
> 
>> 
>> To make code more readable refactor tools/build.c:
>>         - Use mmap() to access kernel image.
>>         - Generate sections dynamically.
>>         - Setup sections protection. Since we cannot fit every
>>           needed section, set a part of protection flags
>>           dynamically during initialization. This step is omitted
>>           if CONFIG_EFI_DXE_MEM_ATTRIBUTES is not set.
>> 
> 
> If the commit log of a patch contains a bulleted list of the changes
> that it implements, it is a very strong indicator that it needs to be
> split up. Presenting this as a big ball of changes makes the life of a
> reviewed unnecessarily hard.
> 

Sorry for that, I'll try to separate this into several patches.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-20 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-06 10:41 [PATCH 00/16] x86_64: Improvements at compressed kernel stage Evgeniy Baskov
2022-09-06 10:41 ` [PATCH 01/16] x86/boot: Align vmlinuz sections on page size Evgeniy Baskov
2022-10-19  7:01   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-20 11:13     ` Evgeniy Baskov
2022-09-06 10:41 ` [PATCH 02/16] x86/build: Remove RWX sections and align on 4KB Evgeniy Baskov
2022-10-19  7:04   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-20 11:15     ` Evgeniy Baskov
2022-09-06 10:41 ` [PATCH 03/16] x86/boot: Set cr0 to known state in trampoline Evgeniy Baskov
2022-10-19  7:06   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-20 11:23     ` Evgeniy Baskov
2022-10-19  7:44   ` Andrew Cooper
2022-10-20 13:25     ` Evgeniy Baskov
2022-09-06 10:41 ` [PATCH 04/16] x86/boot: Increase boot page table size Evgeniy Baskov
2022-10-19  7:08   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-20 11:29     ` Evgeniy Baskov
2022-09-06 10:41 ` [PATCH 05/16] x86/boot: Support 4KB pages for identity mapping Evgeniy Baskov
2022-10-19  7:11   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-20 11:30     ` Evgeniy Baskov
2022-09-06 10:41 ` [PATCH 06/16] x86/boot: Setup memory protection for bzImage code Evgeniy Baskov
2022-10-19  7:17   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-20 12:07     ` Evgeniy Baskov
2022-10-19  7:57   ` Andrew Cooper
2022-10-20 13:30     ` Evgeniy Baskov
2022-10-20 16:51       ` Andrew Cooper
2022-09-06 10:41 ` [PATCH 07/16] x86/boot: Map memory explicitly Evgeniy Baskov
2022-09-06 10:41 ` [PATCH 08/16] x86/boot: Remove mapping from page fault handler Evgeniy Baskov
2022-10-19  7:20   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-09-06 10:41 ` [PATCH 09/16] efi/libstub: Move helper function to related file Evgeniy Baskov
2022-10-19  7:21   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-09-06 10:41 ` [PATCH 10/16] x86/boot: Make console interface more abstract Evgeniy Baskov
2022-10-19  7:23   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-20 12:10     ` Evgeniy Baskov
2022-09-06 10:41 ` [PATCH 11/16] x86/boot: Split trampoline and pt init code Evgeniy Baskov
2022-09-06 10:41 ` [PATCH 12/16] x86/boot: Add EFI kernel extraction interface Evgeniy Baskov
2022-10-19  7:27   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-20 12:14     ` Evgeniy Baskov
2022-09-06 10:41 ` [PATCH 13/16] efi/x86: Support extracting kernel from libstub Evgeniy Baskov
2022-10-19  7:35   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-20 12:36     ` Evgeniy Baskov
2022-09-06 10:41 ` [PATCH 14/16] x86/build: Make generated PE more spec compliant Evgeniy Baskov
2022-10-19  7:39   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-20 13:07     ` Evgeniy Baskov [this message]
2022-09-06 10:41 ` [PATCH 15/16] efi/libstub: Add memory attribute protocol definitions Evgeniy Baskov
2022-10-19  7:39   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-09-06 10:41 ` [PATCH 16/16] efi/libstub: Use memory attribute protocol Evgeniy Baskov
2022-10-18 20:51   ` [PATCH] efi/libstub: make memory protection warnings include newlines Peter Jones
2022-10-19  7:44     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-19  7:42   ` [PATCH 16/16] efi/libstub: Use memory attribute protocol Ard Biesheuvel
2022-10-20 13:13     ` Evgeniy Baskov
2022-10-18 21:04 ` [PATCH 00/16] x86_64: Improvements at compressed kernel stage Peter Jones
2022-10-20 11:05   ` Evgeniy Baskov

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