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

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Date:   Mon, 19 Dec 2022 17:08:30 +0300
From:   Evgeniy Baskov <baskov@...ras.ru>
To:     Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>
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 2022-12-15 22:21, Peter Jones wrote:
> 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!

Nice to hear that, thank you for testing again!