linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] arm64 fixes for -rc7

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 for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

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

Date:   Wed, 28 Sep 2022 11:46:25 +0100
From:   Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, catalin.marinas@....com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] arm64 fixes for -rc7

On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 03:43:05PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 11:28 AM Will Deacon <will@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Please pull these arm64 fixes for -rc7. They're all very simple and
> > self-contained, although the CFI jump-table fix touches the generic
> > linker script as that's where the problematic macro lives.
> 
> The commit message is a bit confusing. It talks about "hysterical
> raisins on x86", but CONFIG_CFI_CLANG has always been arm64-only. No?
> 
> So I'm not seeing what the x86 comment is about?

It was a an accidental inclusion inthe ARM64 CFI series while x86 CFI support
was being developed; in the thread in the LINK tage, Sami says:

| This was a leftover from an old x86 series, which was included here by
| mistake. Will also asked me about this a couple of weeks ago, I think, and
| said he'd send a patch to remove it.

The relevant message being:

  https://lore.kernel.org/all/CABCJKufrRCb84fafhsR8_fftBLv0_pvufL_ZZieUSTJfhdT+fw@mail.gmail.com/

Thanks,
Mark.