Re: [PATCH 0/2] x86/boot: fix relying on link order

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

+ jslaby.

On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 04:10:45PM +0100, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> The series contains stuff I caught last week while working on some
> x86 code. It can be considered a material for fixes or for next,
> I'm okay with either, although leaning more towards fixes :P
> 
> Notes on patches:
> * 0001: I didn't put any "Fixes:" tag since it's not linear. The
>         lines changed with this patch came from the initial x86
>         KASLR series, but that unconditional jump to the kernel
>         beginning already was there. It goes at least from the set
>         that brought relocatable kernel support to x86, but this
>         is quite prehistoric already and might not look really
>         relatable. So up to you whether it needs any.
> * 0002: doesn't fix anything, except that having any files listed
>         in that whitelist already is an architecture bug :D And
>         it wouldn't be convenient to decouple it from #0001, but
>         up to you as well.
> 
> Alexander Lobakin (2):
>   x86/boot: robustify calling startup_{32,64}() from the decompressor
>     code
>   scripts/head-object-list: remove x86 from the list
> 
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S |  2 +-
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S |  2 +-
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c    | 16 +++++++++++-----
>  scripts/head-object-list.txt       |  6 ------
>  4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.38.1
> 

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    Boris.

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