[PATCH 0/7] arm64: move literal data into .rodata section

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Thu Jan 18 03:46:07 PST 2018


On 18 January 2018 at 11:41, Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:11:35PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> Prevent inadvertently creating speculative gadgets by moving literal data
>> into the .rodata section.
>>
>> Patch #1 enables this for C code, by reverting a change that disables the
>> GCC feature implementing this. Note that this conflicts with the mitigation
>> of erratum #843419 for Cortex-A53.
>
> Ard, which tree is this supposed to go through?
>

Hi Herbert,

I am going to drop that first patch, the remaining 6 patches can go
through the crypto tree as they are independent.

Thanks,
Ard.



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