On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 12:03:41PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > We need to ensure that the EFI stub only uses parts of the kernel proper > that are safe to use when the kernel virtual mapping is not active yet. > > So move all C code dependencies to the libstub, and do a verification pass > to ensure that no absolute relocations are used. > > On the arm64 side, annotate all the stub's dependencies as safe for PI > (position independent [...] > Ard Biesheuvel (3): > arm64/efi: remove /chosen/linux,uefi-stub-kern-ver DT property > arm64: use ENDPIPROC() to annotate position independent assembler > routines > arm64/efi: isolate EFI stub from the kernel proper The patches look fine to me. I haven't tested them yet since they don't apply to the arm64 for-next/core cleanly and you said you are going to repost the series anyway. I'll wait. -- Catalin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
