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

Herbert Xu herbert at gondor.apana.org.au
Thu Jan 18 04:02:42 PST 2018


On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 11:46:07AM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> 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.

Patches 2-7 applied.  Thanks.
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