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

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On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 at 17:26, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: bhe@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: bhsharma@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: bp@xxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: eugene@xxxxxx
> > Cc: evgeny.kalugin@xxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: jhugo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: leif.lindholm@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: linux-efi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: mark.rutland@xxxxxxx
> > Cc: roy.franz@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: rruigrok@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170404160910.28115-1-ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > [ardb: fix up merge conflicts with 4.9.180]
> > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > 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.
>

It is not in the defconfig, so it probably doesn't get a lot of coverage.

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

kernelci has lost its usefulness for me, since i have to wade through
pages and pages of mips and riscv results before i get to the meat.

> Anyway, thanks for the patch, now queued up.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h



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