linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH v4 00/26] x86_64: Improvements at compressed kernel stage

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Date:   Thu, 15 Dec 2022 14:21:55 -0500
From:   Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>
To:     Evgeniy Baskov <baskov@...ras.ru>
Cc:     Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@...ras.ru>,
        "Limonciello, Mario" <mario.limonciello@....com>,
        joeyli <jlee@...e.com>, lvc-project@...uxtesting.org,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/26] x86_64: Improvements at compressed kernel stage

On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 03:37:51PM +0300, Evgeniy Baskov wrote:
> This patchset is aimed
> * to improve UEFI compatibility of compressed kernel code for x86_64
> * to setup proper memory access attributes for code and rodata sections
> * to implement W^X protection policy throughout the whole execution 
>   of compressed kernel for EFISTUB code path. 

Hi Evgeniy,

Aside from some minor patch fuzz in patch 6 due to building this in
today's Fedora rawhide kernel rather than mainline, this patch set works
for me.

Thanks!

-- 
        Peter