linux-kernel - [GIT PULL 0/3] EFI fixes for v5.5

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Date:   Tue, 24 Dec 2019 14:29:06 +0100
From:   Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
To:     linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
Subject: [GIT PULL 0/3] EFI fixes for v5.5

The following changes since commit a470552ee8965da0fe6fd4df0aa39c4cda652c7c:

  efi: Don't attempt to map RCI2 config table if it doesn't exist (2019-12-10 12:13:02 +0100)

are available in the Git repository at:

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

for you to fetch changes up to 77217fcc8e04f27127b32825376ed508705fd946:

  x86/efistub: disable paging at mixed mode entry (2019-12-23 16:25:21 +0100)

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Some more fixes for the EFI subsystem:
- Ensure that the EFI framebuffer earlycon uses WC attributes on x86 (Arvind)
- Another mixed mode fix from Hans, for the RNG code this time.
- Fix mixed mode boot from OVMF, by disabling paging at entry.

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Ard Biesheuvel (1):
      x86/efistub: disable paging at mixed mode entry

Arvind Sankar (1):
      efi/earlycon: Fix write-combine mapping on x86

Hans de Goede (1):
      efi/libstub/random: Initialize pointer variables to zero for mixed mode

 arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S    |  5 +++++
 drivers/firmware/efi/earlycon.c       | 16 +++++++---------
 drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/random.c |  6 +++---
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)