[PATCHv3 2/5] arm64/efi: enable runtime call flag checking

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Mon Apr 25 06:54:09 PDT 2016


On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 02:46:31PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Define ARCH_EFI_IRQ_FLAGS_MASK for arm64, which will enable the generic
> runtime wrapper code to detect when firmware erroneously modifies flags
> over a runtime services function call.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm at linaro.org>
> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt at codeblueprint.co.uk>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-efi at vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h
> index f4f71224..b44603e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h
> @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
>  #include <asm/io.h>
>  #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
>  #include <asm/neon.h>
> +#include <asm/ptrace.h>
>  #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_EFI
> @@ -33,6 +34,8 @@ int efi_create_mapping(struct mm_struct *mm, efi_memory_desc_t *md);
>  	kernel_neon_end();						\
>  })
>  
> +#define ARCH_EFI_IRQ_FLAGS_MASK (PSR_D_BIT | PSR_A_BIT | PSR_I_BIT | PSR_F_BIT)

I look forward to the day when the firmware returns in big-endian AArch32 ;)

Anyway, this looks good to me:

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>

Will



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