linux/drivers/firmware/efi
Matthew Garrett a5c03c31af x86/efi: Clarify that reset attack mitigation needs appropriate userspace
Some distributions have turned on the reset attack mitigation feature,
which is designed to force the platform to clear the contents of RAM if
the machine is shut down uncleanly. However, in order for the platform
to be able to determine whether the shutdown was clean or not, userspace
has to be configured to clear the MemoryOverwriteRequest flag on
shutdown - otherwise the firmware will end up clearing RAM on every
reboot, which is unnecessarily time consuming. Add some additional
clarity to the kconfig text to reduce the risk of systems being
configured this way.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-01-19 09:17:41 +01:00
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libstub Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm 2017-11-04 14:26:30 -07:00
test License cleanup: add SPDX license identifiers to some files 2017-11-02 10:04:46 -07:00
apple-properties.c treewide: Consolidate Apple DMI checks 2017-08-03 23:26:22 +02:00
arm-init.c efi/arm/arm64: Add missing assignment of efi.config_table 2017-08-21 09:43:49 +02:00
arm-runtime.c efi/arm: Enable DMI/SMBIOS 2017-06-05 17:50:44 +02:00
capsule-loader.c efi/capsule-loader: Fix pr_err() string to end with newline 2018-01-03 14:03:48 +01:00
capsule.c efi/capsule-loader: Use page addresses rather than struct page pointers 2017-06-05 17:50:41 +02:00
cper-arm.c efi: Parse ARM error information value 2018-01-03 14:03:48 +01:00
cper.c efi: Move ARM CPER code to new file 2018-01-03 14:03:48 +01:00
dev-path-parser.c efi: Add device path parser 2016-11-13 08:23:15 +01:00
efi-bgrt.c efi/bgrt: Use efi_mem_type() 2017-08-26 09:20:33 +02:00
efi-pstore.c pstore: Populate pstore record->time field 2017-05-31 10:13:44 -07:00
efi.c efi: Use PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO() 2018-01-03 14:03:48 +01:00
efibc.c efibc: Report more information in the error messages 2016-06-27 13:06:54 +02:00
efivars.c efi: Don't use spinlocks for efi vars 2016-09-09 16:08:42 +01:00
esrt.c efi/esrt: Use memunmap() instead of kfree() to free the remapping 2017-12-06 19:32:08 +01:00
fake_mem.c x86/efi: Don't allocate memmap through memblock after mm_init() 2017-01-07 08:58:07 +01:00
Kconfig x86/efi: Clarify that reset attack mitigation needs appropriate userspace 2018-01-19 09:17:41 +01:00
Makefile efi: Move ARM CPER code to new file 2018-01-03 14:03:48 +01:00
memattr.c x86/efi: Add support for EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE 2017-02-01 08:45:44 +01:00
memmap.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
reboot.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
runtime-map.c efi: Move some sysfs files to be read-only by root 2017-12-06 19:31:39 +01:00
runtime-wrappers.c efi: Replace runtime services spinlock with semaphore 2016-09-09 16:08:43 +01:00
vars.c efi: Don't use spinlocks for efi vars 2016-09-09 16:08:42 +01:00