Re: Linux 4.9.93
From: Greg Hackmann
Date: Mon Apr 09 2018 - 13:02:27 EST
On 04/09/2018 04:41 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 06:57:51PM +0900, Jean-Baptiste Theou wrote:
>> On Mon, 9 Apr 2018 11:49:37 +0200
>> Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On 9 April 2018 at 11:30, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 06:05:34PM +0900, Jean-Baptiste Theou wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> After this patchset, a kernel built with CFI fails. Disabling
>>>>> UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0 fix the issue obviously.
>>>
>>> How does one 'build a kernel with CFI' for arm64?
>>
>> From Google work on Android-4.9
>>
>> https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/+/00a195e7c0752ff5d65c9caadfbcc226270ca232
>>
>> I am not sure what is the plan on their side to upstream (Greg?), but definitely
>> useful to isolate actual issues.
>
> Ah, yeah, if you are taking anything from the Android tree, all bets are
> off :)
>
> Greg Hackmann can probably answer the questions about CFI and these
> patches, as he's working on merging this stable release into the
> android-4.9 branch this week. I'll let him deal with this...
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
I've added Sami Tolvanen, who's handling CFI in the kernel.
Sami, what are the plans for upstreaming this work?