linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL 0/3] EFI fixes for v4.15

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Date:   Wed, 6 Dec 2017 18:20:19 +0100
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Cc:     linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>,
        Pan Bian <bianpan2016@....com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 0/3] EFI fixes for v4.15


* Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org> wrote:

> The following changes since commit ae64f9bd1d3621b5e60d7363bc20afb46aede215:
> 
>   Linux 4.15-rc2 (2017-12-03 11:01:47 -0500)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi.git efi-urgent
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to bfe89df500c99e29fbd0fd6f18e396f1625efcee:
> 
>   efi: add comment to avoid future expanding of sysfs systab (2017-12-05 18:11:36 +0000)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> A couple of fixes for v4.15:
> - limit the permissions of EFI related sysfs nodes to 0400
> - use memunmap not kfree for a mapping created with memremap
> - add a comment to the code that produces the contents of
>   /sys/firmware/efi/systab that it already violates policy, and
>   no new entries should be added to it
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Dave Young (1):
>       efi: add comment to avoid future expanding of sysfs systab
> 
> Greg Kroah-Hartman (1):
>       efi: move some sysfs files to be read-only by root
> 
> Pan Bian (1):
>       efi/esrt: use memunmap rather kfree to free the remapping
> 
>  drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c         |  5 +++--
>  drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c        | 17 +++++++----------
>  drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-map.c | 10 +++++-----
>  include/linux/sysfs.h              |  6 ++++++
>  4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks Ard!

	Ingo