linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 22/22] x86/efistub: Avoid legacy decompressor when doing EFI boot

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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,
        Evgeniy Baskov <baskov@...ras.ru>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@...ras.ru>,
        Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>,
        Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>,
        Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>,
        Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>
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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