linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL 00/28] More EFI fixes for v5.7

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Date:   Sun, 8 Mar 2020 10:00:45 +0100
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@....de>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Nikolai Merinov <n.merinov@...ngo-systems.com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Vladis Dronov <vdronov@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 00/28] More EFI fixes for v5.7


* Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org> wrote:

> The following changes since commit b9d8b63e340392d7f3ad79881f36a550566cbbbe:
> 
>   Merge tag 'stable-shared-branch-for-driver-tree' into HEAD (2020-03-05 09:58:20 +0100)
> 
> are available in the Git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi.git tags/efi-next
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to dfb2a1c61fcdc8be5dd74608c411c78008a0f078:
> 
>   partitions/efi: Fix partition name parsing in GUID partition entry (2020-03-06 11:17:42 +0100)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> More EFI updates for v5.7
> 
> - a fix for a boot regression in the IMA code on x86 booting without UEFI
> - memory encryption fixes for x86, so that the TPM tables and the RNG
>   config table created by the stub are correctly identified as living in
>   unencrypted memory
> - style tweak and doc update from Heinrich
> - followup to the ARM EFI entry code simplifications to ensure that we
>   don't rely on EFI_LOADER_DATA memory being RWX
> - fixes from Arvind to ensure that the new mixed mode approach works as
>   expected regardless of where the image is loaded in memory by the UEFI
>   PE/COFF loader
> - more fixes from Arvind to make it more likely that the image can be
>   decompressed in place, regardless of where it was loaded in memory
> - efivars bugfix and some cleanup from Vladis
> - incorporate a stable branch with the EFI pieces of Hans's work on
>   loading device firmware from EFI boot service memory regions
> - some followup fixes for the EFI stub changes that are queued for
>   v5.7 already
> - an endianness fix for the EFI GPT partition table driver

>  22 files changed, 319 insertions(+), 141 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks Ard!

	Ingo