linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL 0/9] EFI fixes for v5.7-rc

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Message-ID: <20200411194351.GQ45598@mit.edu>
Date:   Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:43:51 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
Cc:     Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        linux-efi <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Gary Lin <glin@...e.com>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
        Sergey Shatunov <me@...k.pw>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 0/9] EFI fixes for v5.7-rc

On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 09:54:42PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> 
> The runtime cleanup looks a very good one, but I also missed that,
> userspace kexec-tools will break with the efi setup_data changes. But
> kexec_file_load will just work with the cleanup applied.

Hmmm, I wonder if there could be some kselftest or kunit tests that
would make it easier to pick up these sorts of regressions earlier?

      	      	     	     	      	    - Ted