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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: kexec breaks with 5.4 due to memzero_explicit
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 15:55:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191007135526.GA10253@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cf44ec0d-33d5-1577-40ad-0d4acbac7e8b@redhat.com>


* Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 07-10-2019 15:09, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On 07-10-2019 10:50, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > On 07-10-2019 05:09, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> > > > > Hi, arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.ro has an undefined symbol
> > > > > memzero_explicit. This has come from commit 906a4bb97f5d ("crypto:
> > > > > sha256 - Use get/put_unaligned_be32 to get input, memzero_explicit")
> > > > > according to git bisect.
> > > > 
> > > > Hmm, it (obviously) does build for me and using kexec still also works
> > > > for me.
> > > > 
> > > > But it seems that you are right and that this should not build, weird.
> > > 
> > > Ok, I understand now, it seems that the kernel will happily build with
> > > undefined symbols in the purgatory and my kexec testing did not hit
> > > the sha256 check path (*) so it did not crash. I can reproduce this before my patch:
> > > 
> > > [hans@shalem linux]$ ld arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.ro
> > > ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 0000000000401000
> > > ld: arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.ro: in function `sha256_transform':
> > > sha256.c:(.text+0x1c0c): undefined reference to `memzero_explicit'
> > 
> > I've applied your fix,
> 
> Thank you, unfortunately I was just minutes away from sending a v2
> which adds a missing barrier call (not strictly necessary, more future
> proofing).
> 
> Hopefully you can still pick up v2 instead, let me know if you want
> an incremental patch instead.

Yeah, our mails crossed: I noticed that and didn't push out your fix, so 
all should be good. Take your time.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-07 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-07  3:09 kexec breaks with 5.4 due to memzero_explicit Arvind Sankar
2019-10-07  8:50 ` Hans de Goede
2019-10-07  9:10   ` Hans de Goede
2019-10-07 13:09     ` Ingo Molnar
2019-10-07 13:40       ` Hans de Goede
2019-10-07 13:55         ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2019-10-07 13:53       ` Ingo Molnar
2019-10-07 14:07       ` Hans de Goede
2019-10-07 13:20     ` Arvind Sankar
2019-10-07 16:56       ` Hans de Goede

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