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

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Sun, 12 Apr 2020 11:51:11 +0800
From:   Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
To:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
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 04/11/20 at 03:43pm, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> 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?

I thought about that before, but did not go with any actual actions.
kexec test needs a system reboot, Kdump is even harder to test, that is
the reason I hesitated about.

But since the breakage happens here and there frequently, it is time to
try it.  I think I will play with it, but I might be slow because of
other things,  welcome to post patches if anyone is interested :)

Thanks
Dave