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

From: Will Deacon
Date: Mon Apr 25 2016 - 09:54:25 EST


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@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-efi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> 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@xxxxxxx>

Will