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<title>kernel/git/stable/linux.git/arch/x86/boot, branch linux-5.5.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<updated>2020-04-17T14:11:56+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Use unsigned comparison for addresses</title>
<updated>2020-04-17T14:11:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arvind Sankar</name>
<email>nivedita@alum.mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-08T08:08:44+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 81a34892c2c7c809f9c4e22c5ac936ae673fb9a2 ]

The load address is compared with LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR using a signed
comparison currently (using jge instruction).

When loading a 64-bit kernel using the new efi32_pe_entry() point added by:

  97aa276579b2 ("efi/x86: Add true mixed mode entry point into .compat section")

using Qemu with -m 3072, the firmware actually loads us above 2Gb,
resulting in a very early crash.

Use the JAE instruction to perform a unsigned comparison instead, as physical
addresses should be considered unsigned.

Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar &lt;nivedita@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200301230436.2246909-6-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200308080859.21568-14-ardb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/boot/compressed: Don't declare __force_order in kaslr_64.c</title>
<updated>2020-03-12T06:18:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H.J. Lu</name>
<email>hjl.tools@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-16T20:46:51+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit df6d4f9db79c1a5d6f48b59db35ccd1e9ff9adfc ]

GCC 10 changed the default to -fno-common, which leads to

    LD      arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux
  ld: arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.o:(.bss+0x0): multiple definition of `__force_order'; \
    arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr_64.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here
  make[2]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile:119: arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 1

Since __force_order is already provided in pgtable_64.c, there is no
need to declare __force_order in kaslr_64.c.

Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu &lt;hjl.tools@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200124181811.4780-1-hjl.tools@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/boot/compressed: Relax sed symbol type regex for LLVM ld.lld</title>
<updated>2020-02-24T07:38:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-18T16:57:04+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit bc310baf2ba381c648983c7f4748327f17324562 ]

The final build stage of the x86 kernel captures some symbol
addresses from the decompressor binary and copies them into zoffset.h.
It uses sed with a regular expression that matches the address, symbol
type and symbol name, and mangles the captured addresses and the names
of symbols of interest into #define directives that are added to
zoffset.h

The symbol type is indicated by a single letter, which we match
strictly: only letters in the set 'ABCDGRSTVW' are matched, even
though the actual symbol type is relevant and therefore ignored.

Commit bc7c9d620 ("efi/libstub/x86: Force 'hidden' visibility for
extern declarations") made a change to the way external symbol
references are classified, resulting in 'startup_32' now being
emitted as a hidden symbol. This prevents the use of GOT entries to
refer to this symbol via its absolute address, which recent toolchains
(including Clang based ones) already avoid by default, making this
change a no-op in the majority of cases.

However, as it turns out, the LLVM linker classifies such hidden
symbols as symbols with static linkage in fully linked ELF binaries,
causing tools such as NM to output a lowercase 't' rather than an upper
case 'T' for the type of such symbols. Since our sed expression only
matches upper case letters for the symbol type, the line describing
startup_32 is disregarded, resulting in a build error like the following

  arch/x86/boot/header.S:568:18: error: symbol 'ZO_startup_32' can not be
                                        undefined in a subtraction expression
  init_size: .long (0x00000000008fd000 - ZO_startup_32 +
                    (((0x0000000001f6361c + ((0x0000000001f6361c &gt;&gt; 8) + 65536)
                     - 0x00000000008c32e5) + 4095) &amp; ~4095)) # kernel initialization size

Given that we are only interested in the value of the symbol, let's match
any character in the set 'a-zA-Z' instead.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Handle malformed SRAT tables during early ACPI parsing</title>
<updated>2020-02-14T21:52:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Clarkson</name>
<email>sc@lambdal.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-31T00:48:16+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2b73ea3796242608b4ccf019ff217156c92e92fe ]

Break an infinite loop when early parsing of the SRAT table is caused
by a subtable with zero length. Known to affect the ASUS WS X299 SAGE
motherboard with firmware version 1201 which has a large block of
zeros in its SRAT table. The kernel could boot successfully on this
board/firmware prior to the introduction of early parsing this table or
after a BIOS update.

 [ bp: Fixup whitespace damage and commit message. Make it return 0 to
   denote that there are no immovable regions because who knows what
   else is broken in this BIOS. ]

Fixes: 02a3e3cdb7f1 ("x86/boot: Parse SRAT table and count immovable memory regions")
Signed-off-by: Steven Clarkson &lt;sc@lambdal.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206343
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHKq8taGzj0u1E_i=poHUam60Bko5BpiJ9jn0fAupFUYexvdUQ@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/efistub: Disable paging at mixed mode entry</title>
<updated>2019-12-25T09:46:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-24T13:29:09+00:00</published>
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The EFI mixed mode entry code goes through the ordinary startup_32()
routine before jumping into the kernel's EFI boot code in 64-bit
mode. The 32-bit startup code must be entered with paging disabled,
but this is not documented as a requirement for the EFI handover
protocol, and so we should disable paging explicitly when entering
the kernel from 32-bit EFI firmware.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arvind Sankar &lt;nivedita@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191224132909.102540-4-ardb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/boot: kbuild: allow readelf executable to be specified</title>
<updated>2019-12-14T06:53:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Golovin</name>
<email>dima@golovin.in</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-04T22:54:41+00:00</published>
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Introduce a new READELF variable to top-level Makefile, so the name of
readelf binary can be specified.

Before this change the name of the binary was hardcoded to
"$(CROSS_COMPILE)readelf" which might not be present for every
toolchain.

This allows to build with LLVM Object Reader by using make parameter
READELF=llvm-readelf.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/771
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Golovin &lt;dima@golovin.in&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'acpi-5.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2019-11-27T03:25:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-27T03:25:25+00:00</published>
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Pull ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision
  20191018, add support for EFI specific purpose memory, update the ACPI
  EC driver to make it work on systems with hardware-reduced ACPI,
  improve ACPI-based device enumeration for some platforms, rework the
  lid blacklist handling in the button driver and add more lid quirks to
  it, unify ACPI _HID/_UID matching, fix assorted issues and clean up
  the code and documentation.

  Specifics:

   - Update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision 20191018
     including:
      * Fixes for Clang warnings (Bob Moore)
      * Fix for possible overflow in get_tick_count() (Bob Moore)
      * Introduction of acpi_unload_table() (Bob Moore)
      * Debugger and utilities updates (Erik Schmauss)
      * Fix for unloading tables loaded via configfs (Nikolaus Voss)

   - Add support for EFI specific purpose memory to optionally allow
     either application-exclusive or core-kernel-mm managed access to
     differentiated memory (Dan Williams)

   - Fix and clean up processing of the HMAT table (Brice Goglin, Qian
     Cai, Tao Xu)

   - Update the ACPI EC driver to make it work on systems with
     hardware-reduced ACPI (Daniel Drake)

   - Always build in support for the Generic Event Device (GED) to allow
     one kernel binary to work both on systems with full hardware ACPI
     and hardware-reduced ACPI (Arjan van de Ven)

   - Fix the table unload mechanism to unregister platform devices
     created when the given table was loaded (Andy Shevchenko)

   - Rework the lid blacklist handling in the button driver and add more
     lid quirks to it (Hans de Goede)

   - Improve ACPI-based device enumeration for some platforms based on
     Intel BayTrail SoCs (Hans de Goede)

   - Add an OpRegion driver for the Cherry Trail Crystal Cove PMIC and
     prevent handlers from being registered for unhandled PMIC OpRegions
     (Hans de Goede)

   - Unify ACPI _HID/_UID matching (Andy Shevchenko)

   - Clean up documentation and comments (Cao jin, James Pack, Kacper
     Piwiński)"

* tag 'acpi-5.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (52 commits)
  ACPI: OSI: Shoot duplicate word
  ACPI: HMAT: use %u instead of %d to print u32 values
  ACPI: NUMA: HMAT: fix a section mismatch
  ACPI: HMAT: don't mix pxm and nid when setting memory target processor_pxm
  ACPI: NUMA: HMAT: Register "soft reserved" memory as an "hmem" device
  ACPI: NUMA: HMAT: Register HMAT at device_initcall level
  device-dax: Add a driver for "hmem" devices
  dax: Fix alloc_dax_region() compile warning
  lib: Uplevel the pmem "region" ida to a global allocator
  x86/efi: Add efi_fake_mem support for EFI_MEMORY_SP
  arm/efi: EFI soft reservation to memblock
  x86/efi: EFI soft reservation to E820 enumeration
  efi: Common enable/disable infrastructure for EFI soft reservation
  x86/efi: Push EFI_MEMMAP check into leaf routines
  efi: Enumerate EFI_MEMORY_SP
  ACPI: NUMA: Establish a new drivers/acpi/numa/ directory
  ACPICA: Update version to 20191018
  ACPICA: debugger: remove leading whitespaces when converting a string to a buffer
  ACPICA: acpiexec: initialize all simple types and field units from user input
  ACPICA: debugger: add field unit support for acpi_db_get_next_token
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-11-26T22:52:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-26T22:52:11+00:00</published>
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Pull EFI updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Wire up the EFI RNG code for x86. This enables an additional source
     of entropy during early boot.

   - Enable the TPM event log code on ARM platforms.

   - Update Ard's email address"

* 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  efi: libstub/tpm: enable tpm eventlog function for ARM platforms
  x86: efi/random: Invoke EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL to seed the UEFI RNG table
  efi/random: use arch-independent efi_call_proto()
  MAINTAINERS: update Ard's email address to @kernel.org
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-11-26T18:42:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-26T18:42:40+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Cross-arch changes to move the linker sections for NOTES and
     EXCEPTION_TABLE into the RO_DATA area, where they belong on most
     architectures. (Kees Cook)

   - Switch the x86 linker fill byte from x90 (NOP) to 0xcc (INT3), to
     trap jumps into the middle of those padding areas instead of
     sliding execution. (Kees Cook)

   - A thorough cleanup of symbol definitions within x86 assembler code.
     The rather randomly named macros got streamlined around a
     (hopefully) straightforward naming scheme:

        SYM_START(name, linkage, align...)
        SYM_END(name, sym_type)

        SYM_FUNC_START(name)
        SYM_FUNC_END(name)

        SYM_CODE_START(name)
        SYM_CODE_END(name)

        SYM_DATA_START(name)
        SYM_DATA_END(name)

     etc - with about three times of these basic primitives with some
     label, local symbol or attribute variant, expressed via postfixes.

     No change in functionality intended. (Jiri Slaby)

   - Misc other changes, cleanups and smaller fixes"

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (67 commits)
  x86/entry/64: Remove pointless jump in paranoid_exit
  x86/entry/32: Remove unused resume_userspace label
  x86/build/vdso: Remove meaningless CFLAGS_REMOVE_*.o
  m68k: Convert missed RODATA to RO_DATA
  x86/vmlinux: Use INT3 instead of NOP for linker fill bytes
  x86/mm: Report actual image regions in /proc/iomem
  x86/mm: Report which part of kernel image is freed
  x86/mm: Remove redundant address-of operators on addresses
  xtensa: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  powerpc: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  parisc: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  microblaze: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  ia64: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  h8300: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  c6x: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  arm64: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  alpha: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  x86/vmlinux: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment
  x86/vmlinux: Actually use _etext for the end of the text segment
  vmlinux.lds.h: Allow EXCEPTION_TABLE to live in RO_DATA
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-11-26T16:40:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-26T16:40:20+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes were:

   - Extend the boot protocol to allow future extensions without hitting
     the setup_header size limit.

   - Add quirk to devicetree systems to disable the RTC unless it's
     listed as a supported device.

   - Fix ld.lld linker pedantry"

* 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/boot: Introduce setup_indirect
  x86/boot: Introduce kernel_info.setup_type_max
  x86/boot: Introduce kernel_info
  x86/init: Allow DT configured systems to disable RTC at boot time
  x86/realmode: Explicitly set entry point via ENTRY in linker script
</content>
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