* Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Guys, please pull the following. One of the fixes is for a regression
> introduced during the merge window. The other two are bugs that have
> existed in the EFI boot stub for a while, but which have only just been
> reported.
>
> I'm going to take care of submitting the later two to stable separately
> because they won't apply cleanly as-is.
>
> The following changes since commit 204b0a1a4b92612c957a042df1a3be0e9cc79391:
>
> x86, efi: Abstract x86 efi_early calls (2014-03-26 11:30:03 -0700)
>
> 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 47514c996fac5e6f13ef3a4c5e23f1c5cffabb7b:
>
> efi: Pass correct file handle to efi_file_{read,close} (2014-04-10 21:20:03 +0100)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> * Fix EFI boot regression introduced during the merge window where the
> firmware was reading random values from the stack because we were
> passing a pointer to the wrong object type.
>
> * Kernel corruption has been reported when booting with the EFI boot
> stub which was tracked down to setting a bogus value for
> bp->hdr.code32_start, resulting in corruption during relocation.
>
> * Olivier Martin reported that the wrong file handles were being passed
> to efi_file_(read|close), which works for x86 by luck due to the way
> that the FAT driver is implemented, but doesn't work on ARM.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Matt Fleming (3):
> x86/efi: Fix boot failure with EFI stub
> x86/efi: Correct EFI boot stub use of code32_start
> efi: Pass correct file handle to efi_file_{read,close}
>
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c | 19 ++++++++++---------
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S | 8 ++------
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S | 9 +++------
> drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c | 6 +++---
> 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
Pulled, thanks a lot Matt!
Ingo
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