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Arvind Sankar 105cb9544b efi/x86: Move efi stub globals from .bss to .data 
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  3ee372ccce ("x86/boot/compressed/64: Remove .bss/.pgtable from bzImage")

removed the .bss section from the bzImage.

However, while a PE loader is required to zero-initialize the .bss
section before calling the PE entry point, the EFI handover protocol
does not currently document any requirement that .bss be initialized by
the bootloader prior to calling the handover entry.

When systemd-boot is used to boot a unified kernel image [1], the image
is constructed by embedding the bzImage as a .linux section in a PE
executable that contains a small stub loader from systemd together with
additional sections and potentially an initrd. As the .bss section
within the bzImage is no longer explicitly present as part of the file,
it is not initialized before calling the EFI handover entry.
Furthermore, as the size of the embedded .linux section is only the size
of the bzImage file itself, the .bss section's memory may not even have
been allocated.

In particular, this can result in efi_disable_pci_dma being true even
when it was not specified via the command line or configuration option,
which in turn causes crashes while booting on some systems.

To avoid issues, place all EFI stub global variables into the .data
section instead of .bss. As of this writing, only boolean flags for a
few command line arguments and the sys_table pointer were in .bss and
will now move into the .data section.

[1] https://systemd.io/BOOT_LOADER_SPECIFICATION/#type-2-efi-unified-kernel-images

Fixes: 3ee372ccce ("x86/boot/compressed/64: Remove .bss/.pgtable from bzImage")
Reported-by: Sergey Shatunov <me@prok.pw>
Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200406180614.429454-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200409130434.6736-4-ardb@kernel.org
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arch A set of three patches to fix the fallout of the newly added split lock 2020-04-12 10:17:16 -07:00
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Documentation Time(keeping) updates: 2020-04-12 10:13:14 -07:00
drivers efi/x86: Move efi stub globals from .bss to .data 2020-04-14 08:32:13 +02:00
fs 10 smb fixes most RDMA (smbdirect) related, also add experimental support for swap over SMB3 mounts, and also adds fix which improves performance of signed connections 2020-04-12 09:41:01 -07:00
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README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.