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Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2023 17:55:01 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 22/22] x86/efistub: Avoid legacy decompressor when
doing EFI boot
On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 12:47:24PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ardb/linux.git/log/?h=x86-efistub-cleanup-v8
>
> I'll prepare the v8 based on this branch after doing some more tests
> on bare metal. I'll probably send it out later today.
Thx, I'll run it here too.
> It depends on the timing. If we take the whole thing now, it should
> ideally go through -tip.
Now's fine, if it passes testing.
> There is a conflict with the kexec sev patch you just suggested on the
> list, though. I'll rebase onto that in any case, but if that causes
> any problems, we might decide to take everything except the last two
> (or three *) patches now, and defer those for later.
Right.
> * 'efi/libstub: Add limit argument to efi_random_alloc()' may conflict
> with some changes that may arrive via the RISC-V tree. That patch is
> completely independent, so perhaps I should put it on a shared stable
> branch in the EFI tree. Or alternatively, depending on how you decide
> to organize the branches, you could put it at the beginning of the
> topic branch where the RISC-V tree can merge it in.
I could simply give them the tip branch with the stuff and they can
merge it. It'll be immutable ofc.
> Or we might just ignore the conflict - it just adds a function
> argument to a function call that gets moved from one source file to
> the another in the conflicting branch, so it should be rather
> straight-forward to resolve.
That's also a possibility.
Thx.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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