From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934695AbcI2V3j (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2016 17:29:39 -0400 Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.156.1]:52196 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932267AbcI2V3c (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2016 17:29:32 -0400 From: Thiago Jung Bauermann To: Andrew Morton Cc: Stephen Rothwell , Eric Biederman , Mimi Zohar , LKML , Michael Ellerman Subject: Re: ima measurement carrying on -mm Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 18:29:22 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/4.14.3 (Linux/4.4.0-38-generic; KDE/4.14.13; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20160929140206.bc37b32cd63d9635682274c8@linux-foundation.org> References: <1687520.U903BamSQx@hactar> <20160929140206.bc37b32cd63d9635682274c8@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 16092921-0020-0000-0000-0000024A41CD X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 16092921-0021-0000-0000-0000304B39A4 Message-Id: <10788418.Ym8VJ8yVbp@hactar> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2016-09-29_13:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 spamscore=0 suspectscore=0 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 adultscore=0 bulkscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1609280000 definitions=main-1609290369 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Donnerstag, 29 September 2016, 14:02:06 schrieb Andrew Morton: > On Thu, 29 Sep 2016 17:44:10 -0300 Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote: > > Hello Andrew, > > > > You have in the -mm tree a version of the "kexec handover buffer" and > > "ima carry measurement list" patches that were NAKed by Eric Biederman. > > I would just like to double-check that there's no risk of that version > > reaching v4.9. > > > > Mimi posted v5 of a merged patch set that addresses Eric's concern: > > > > https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2016-September/149183.ht > > ml > > > > There are no separate kexec handover patches anymore. They were folded > > into the series above. The kexec code is simplified now, it doesn't > > support updating the buffer and recalculating the hash on reboot, and > > is now IMA- specific instead of a generic kexec feature. > > Yup, thanks. > > I wasn't thinking any of this material is suitable for 4.9. Seems that > a bit more consideration will be needed. Am I wrong about that? Yes regarding the "ima carry measurement list" patches, but I was hoping that at least the kexec_file_load patches would be upstreamed. > Are all of these -mm patches up to date? > > kexec_file-allow-arch-specific-memory-walking-for-kexec_add_buffer.patch > kexec_file-change-kexec_add_buffer-to-take-kexec_buf-as-argument.patch > kexec_file-factor-out-kexec_locate_mem_hole-from-kexec_add_buffer.patch > powerpc-change-places-using-config_kexec-to-use-config_kexec_core-instead. > patch > powerpc-factor-out-relocation-code-from-module_64c-to-elf_util_64c.patch > powerpc-generalize-elf64_apply_relocate_add.patch > powerpc-adapt-elf64_apply_relocate_add-for-kexec_file_load.patch > powerpc-add-functions-to-read-elf-files-of-any-endianness.patch > powerpc-implement-kexec_file_load.patch > powerpc-add-code-to-work-with-device-trees-in-kexec_file_load.patch > powerpc-add-support-for-loading-elf-kernels-with-kexec_file_load.patch > powerpc-add-support-for-loading-elf-kernels-with-kexec_file_load-fix.patch > powerpc-add-purgatory-for-kexec_file_load-implementation.patch > powerpc-add-purgatory-for-kexec_file_load-implementation-fix.patch > powerpc-enable-config_kexec_file-in-powerpc-server-defconfigs.patch Yes, the above are the latest version (v8). > kexec_file-include-the-purgatory-segment-in-the-kexec-image-checksum.patch > kexec_file-add-buffer-hand-over-support-for-the-next-kernel.patch > powerpc-kexec_file-add-buffer-hand-over-support-for-the-next-kernel.patch > kexec_file-add-mechanism-to-update-kexec-segments.patch The above were superseded by the version Mimi posted this week I referred to. Thanks for the quick response. -- []'s Thiago Jung Bauermann IBM Linux Technology Center