[PATCH 0/2] efi: Enable BTI for EFI runtimes services

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Thu Feb 2 09:37:16 PST 2023


On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 02:25:38PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> The EFI spec v2.10 introduces a global flag in the memory attributes
> table that indicates whether the EFI runtime code regions were emitted
> with BTI landing pads, and can therefore tolerate being mapped with BTI
> enforcement enabled.
> 
> Add the generic plumbing for this, and wire it up for arm64.

Looks nice! :)

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>

> 
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> 
> Ard Biesheuvel (2):
>   efi: Discover BTI support in runtime services regions
>   efi: arm64: Wire up BTI annotation in memory attributes table
> 
>  arch/arm/include/asm/efi.h     |  2 +-
>  arch/arm/kernel/efi.c          |  5 +++--
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h   |  3 ++-
>  arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c        | 18 +++++++++++++++---
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/efi.h   |  2 +-
>  arch/riscv/kernel/efi.c        |  3 ++-
>  arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c |  3 ++-
>  drivers/firmware/efi/memattr.c |  9 +++++++--
>  include/linux/efi.h            |  8 ++++++--
>  9 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.39.0
> 

-- 
Kees Cook



More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list