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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ima measurement carrying on -mm
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 14:02:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160929140206.bc37b32cd63d9635682274c8@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1687520.U903BamSQx@hactar>

On Thu, 29 Sep 2016 17:44:10 -0300 Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hello Andrew,
> 
> You have in the -mm tree a version of the "kexec handover buffer" and "ima 
> carry measurement list" patches that were NAKed by Eric Biederman. I would 
> just like to double-check that there's no risk of that version reaching 
> v4.9.
> 
> Mimi posted v5 of a merged patch set that addresses Eric's concern:
> 
> https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2016-September/149183.html
> 
> There are no separate kexec handover patches anymore. They were folded into 
> the series above. The kexec code is simplified now, it doesn't support 
> updating the buffer and recalculating the hash on reboot, and is now IMA-
> specific instead of a generic kexec feature.

Yup, thanks.

I wasn't thinking any of this material is suitable for 4.9.  Seems that
a bit more consideration will be needed.  Am I wrong about that?

Are all of these -mm patches up to date?

kexec_file-allow-arch-specific-memory-walking-for-kexec_add_buffer.patch
kexec_file-change-kexec_add_buffer-to-take-kexec_buf-as-argument.patch
kexec_file-factor-out-kexec_locate_mem_hole-from-kexec_add_buffer.patch
powerpc-change-places-using-config_kexec-to-use-config_kexec_core-instead.patch
powerpc-factor-out-relocation-code-from-module_64c-to-elf_util_64c.patch
powerpc-generalize-elf64_apply_relocate_add.patch
powerpc-adapt-elf64_apply_relocate_add-for-kexec_file_load.patch
powerpc-add-functions-to-read-elf-files-of-any-endianness.patch
powerpc-implement-kexec_file_load.patch
powerpc-add-code-to-work-with-device-trees-in-kexec_file_load.patch
powerpc-add-support-for-loading-elf-kernels-with-kexec_file_load.patch
powerpc-add-support-for-loading-elf-kernels-with-kexec_file_load-fix.patch
powerpc-add-purgatory-for-kexec_file_load-implementation.patch
powerpc-add-purgatory-for-kexec_file_load-implementation-fix.patch
powerpc-enable-config_kexec_file-in-powerpc-server-defconfigs.patch
#
kexec_file-include-the-purgatory-segment-in-the-kexec-image-checksum.patch
kexec_file-add-buffer-hand-over-support-for-the-next-kernel.patch
powerpc-kexec_file-add-buffer-hand-over-support-for-the-next-kernel.patch
kexec_file-add-mechanism-to-update-kexec-segments.patch

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-29 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-29 20:44 ima measurement carrying on -mm Thiago Jung Bauermann
2016-09-29 21:02 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2016-09-29 21:29   ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2016-09-29 21:53     ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-09-29 22:16       ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2016-09-29 21:47   ` Eric W. Biederman

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