linux-kernel - [GIT PULL 0/6] EFI urgent fixes

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Date:   Fri, 19 Aug 2016 21:34:58 +0100
From:   Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:     Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@...sung.com>,
        Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>,
        Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@...eaurora.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
        Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@...aro.org>, lists@...-mail.com,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com>,
        Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao@...aro.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
Subject: [GIT PULL 0/6] EFI urgent fixes

Folks, please pull the following urgent fixes, which prevent an
infinite loop on Xen, a boot failure on Qualcomm platforms and a data
type bug in the fdt code.

The following changes since commit 694d0d0bb2030d2e36df73e2d23d5770511dbc8d:

  Linux 4.8-rc2 (2016-08-14 19:11:36 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi.git tags/efi-urgent

for you to fetch changes up to b7453c7a235c597b44c365887e57e7c300e72bf0:

  efi/fdt: Fix handling error value in fdt_find_uefi_params (2016-08-19 21:18:34 +0100)

----------------------------------------------------------------
 * Make for_each_efi_memory_desc_in_map() safe on Xen and prevent an
   infinte loop - Jan Beulich

 * Fix boot error on arm64 Qualcomm platforms by refactoring and
   improving the ExitBootServices() hack we already for x86 and moving
   it to the libstub - Jeffrey Hugo

 * Use correct return data type for of_get_flat_dt_subnode_by_name()
   so that we correctly handle errors - Andrzej Hajda

----------------------------------------------------------------
Andrzej Hajda (1):
      efi/fdt: Fix handling error value in fdt_find_uefi_params

Jan Beulich (1):
      efi: Make for_each_efi_memory_desc_in_map() cope with running on Xen

Jeffrey Hugo (4):
      efi/libstub: Allocate headspace in efi_get_memory_map()
      efi/libstub: Introduce ExitBootServices helper
      efi/libstub: Use efi_exit_boot_services() in FDT
      x86/efi: Use efi_exit_boot_services()

 arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c               | 134 ++++++++++----------
 drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c                     |   7 +-
 drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c | 168 ++++++++++++++++++++-----
 drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/fdt.c             |  54 +++++---
 drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/random.c          |  12 +-
 include/linux/efi.h                            |  28 ++++-
 6 files changed, 283 insertions(+), 120 deletions(-)