[PATCH] arm64/efi: move arm64 specific stub C code to libstub

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Fri Oct 30 04:57:48 PDT 2015


On 29 October 2015 at 19:39, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 04:48:14PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> Now that we added special handling to the C files in libstub, move
>> the one remaining arm64 specific EFI stub C file to libstub as
>> well, so that it gets the same treatment. This should prevent future
>> changes from resulting in binaries that may execute incorrectly in
>> UEFI context.
>>
>> With efi-entry.S the only remaining EFI stub source file under
>> arch/arm64, we can also simplify the Makefile logic somewhat.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
>> ---
>>
>> I would like to suggest that this be taken on top of the stuff that is
>> queued for 4.4 at the moment (if it is not too late already).
>
> Applied. Thanks.
>

Please note (before you push it out), that Will just pulled a 4.3-rc
fix that changes arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c



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