Re: [PATCH for-4.9-stable] efi/libstub: Unify command line param parsing

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 12:25:13PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Commit 60f38de7a8d4e816100ceafd1b382df52527bd50 upstream.
> 
> Merge the parsing of the command line carried out in arm-stub.c with
> the handling in efi_parse_options(). Note that this also fixes the
> missing handling of CONFIG_CMDLINE_FORCE=y, in which case the builtin
> command line should supersede the one passed by the firmware.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: bhe@redhat.com
> Cc: bhsharma@redhat.com
> Cc: bp@alien8.de
> Cc: eugene@hp.com
> Cc: evgeny.kalugin@intel.com
> Cc: jhugo@codeaurora.org
> Cc: leif.lindholm@linaro.org
> Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com
> Cc: roy.franz@cavium.com
> Cc: rruigrok@codeaurora.org
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170404160910.28115-1-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> [ardb: fix up merge conflicts with 4.9.180]
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> ---
> This fixes the GCC build issue reported by Eike.
> 
> Note that testing of arm64 stable kernels should cover CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE,
> since it has a profound impact on how the kernel binary gets put together.

Good idea.  Is that in any arm64 stable kernel configuration?  If not, I
can ask the Linaro build/test people to add it there.

And isn't it part of kernel.ci already?  We get the results of that for
stable releases.

Anyway, thanks for the patch, now queued up.

thanks,

greg k-h