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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	keescook@chromium.org, bhe@redhat.com, msys.mizuma@gmail.com,
	indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com, caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 2/7] x86/boot: Copy kstrtoull() to compressed period
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2018 20:13:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181106191303.GN13712@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181022093720.21426-3-fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>

On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 05:37:15PM +0800, Chao Fan wrote:
> kstrtoull() lives in 'uncompressed' period, used to
> convert a string to an unsigned long long.
> Copy to 'compressed' so that we can use it to
> convert the memory address from sting to unsigned

sting?

> long long in 'compressed' period.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c | 88 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h |  4 ++
>  2 files changed, 92 insertions(+)

Why do you need to copy things?

You can link that file into compressed/ as lib/kstrtox.c is a library or
include it similar to what arch/x86/boot/compressed/cmdline.c does.

Still better than copying the code.

> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h
> index 008fdc47a29c..40378408d980 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h
> @@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ static inline void debug_puthex(const char *s)
>  
>  #endif
>  
> +#if (defined CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE) && (defined CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE)

CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE twice huh? Once not enough?

:-)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-06 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-22  9:37 [PATCH v10 0/7] x86/boot/KASLR: Parse ACPI table and limit kaslr in immovable memory Chao Fan
2018-10-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v10 1/7] x86/boot: Introduce cmdline_find_option_arg()to detect if option=arg in cmdline Chao Fan
2018-11-06 12:22   ` Borislav Petkov
2018-11-07  1:24     ` Chao Fan
2018-10-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v10 2/7] x86/boot: Copy kstrtoull() to compressed period Chao Fan
2018-11-06 19:13   ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2018-11-07  1:28     ` Chao Fan
2018-10-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v10 3/7] x86/boot: Add efi_get_rsdp_addr() to dig out RSDP from EFI table Chao Fan
2018-10-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v10 4/7] x86/boot: Add bios_get_rsdp_addr() to search RSDP in memory Chao Fan
2018-10-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v10 5/7] x86/boot: Add get_acpi_rsdp() to parse RSDP in cmdline from kexec Chao Fan
2018-10-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v10 6/7] x86/boot: Dig out SRAT table from RSDP and find immovable memory Chao Fan
2018-10-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v10 7/7] x86/boot/KASLR: Limit kaslr to choosing the " Chao Fan
2018-10-31  7:42 ` [PATCH v10 0/7] x86/boot/KASLR: Parse ACPI table and limit kaslr in " Chao Fan
2018-10-31 10:05   ` Borislav Petkov
2018-11-01  1:25     ` Chao Fan

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