This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/Kconfig: Drop check for -mabi=ms for CONFIG_EFI_STUB
to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-kconfig-drop-check-for-mabi-ms-for-config_efi_stub.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 33806e7cb8d50379f55c3e8f335e91e1b359dc7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 08:20:10 -0700
Subject: x86/Kconfig: Drop check for -mabi=ms for CONFIG_EFI_STUB
From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 33806e7cb8d50379f55c3e8f335e91e1b359dc7b upstream.
A recent change in LLVM made CONFIG_EFI_STUB unselectable because it no
longer pretends to support -mabi=ms, breaking the dependency in
Kconfig. Lack of CONFIG_EFI_STUB can prevent kernels from booting via
EFI in certain circumstances.
This check was added by
8f24f8c2fc82 ("efi/libstub: Annotate firmware routines as __efiapi")
to ensure that __attribute__((ms_abi)) was available, as -mabi=ms is
not actually used in any cflags.
According to the GCC documentation, this attribute has been supported
since GCC 4.4.7. The kernel currently requires GCC 5.1 so this check is
not necessary; even when that change landed in 5.6, the kernel required
GCC 4.9 so it was unnecessary then as well.
Clang supports __attribute__((ms_abi)) for all versions that are
supported for building the kernel so no additional check is needed.
Remove the 'depends on' line altogether to allow CONFIG_EFI_STUB to be
selected when CONFIG_EFI is enabled, regardless of compiler.
Fixes: 8f24f8c2fc82 ("efi/libstub: Annotate firmware routines as __efiapi")
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/d1ad006a8f64bdc17f618deffa9e7c91d82c444d
[nathan: Fix conflict due to lack of c6dbd3e5e69c in older trees]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -1926,7 +1926,6 @@ config EFI
config EFI_STUB
bool "EFI stub support"
depends on EFI && !X86_USE_3DNOW
- depends on $(cc-option,-mabi=ms) || X86_32
select RELOCATABLE
help
This kernel feature allows a bzImage to be loaded directly
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nathan@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.15/x86-kconfig-drop-check-for-mabi-ms-for-config_efi_stub.patch
