From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934591AbcI2VCP (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2016 17:02:15 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:46617 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934130AbcI2VCI (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2016 17:02:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 14:02:06 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Thiago Jung Bauermann Cc: Stephen Rothwell , Eric Biederman , Mimi Zohar , LKML Subject: Re: ima measurement carrying on -mm Message-Id: <20160929140206.bc37b32cd63d9635682274c8@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1687520.U903BamSQx@hactar> References: <1687520.U903BamSQx@hactar> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.html > > 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? 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 # 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