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<title>linux.git/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub, branch v6.8</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>efi/libstub: Add one kernel-doc comment</title>
<updated>2024-01-30T20:44:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yang Li</name>
<email>yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-19T10:06:35+00:00</published>
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Add the description of @memory_type to silence the warning:
drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/alignedmem.c:27: warning: Function parameter or struct member 'memory_type' not described in 'efi_allocate_pages_aligned'

Signed-off-by: Yang Li &lt;yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
[ardb: tweak comment]
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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Add the description of @memory_type to silence the warning:
drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/alignedmem.c:27: warning: Function parameter or struct member 'memory_type' not described in 'efi_allocate_pages_aligned'

Signed-off-by: Yang Li &lt;yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
[ardb: tweak comment]
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/efistub: Avoid placing the kernel below LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR</title>
<updated>2024-01-30T20:44:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-30T18:01:35+00:00</published>
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The EFI stub's kernel placement logic randomizes the physical placement
of the kernel by taking all available memory into account, and picking a
region at random, based on a random seed.

When KASLR is disabled, this seed is set to 0x0, and this results in the
lowest available region of memory to be selected for loading the kernel,
even if this is below LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR. Some of this memory is
typically reserved for the GFP_DMA region, to accommodate masters that
can only access the first 16 MiB of system memory.

Even if such devices are rare these days, we may still end up with a
warning in the kernel log, as reported by Tom:

 swapper/0: page allocation failure: order:10, mode:0xcc1(GFP_KERNEL|GFP_DMA), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0

Fix this by tweaking the random allocation logic to accept a low bound
on the placement, and set it to LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR.

Fixes: a1b87d54f4e4 ("x86/efistub: Avoid legacy decompressor when doing EFI boot")
Reported-by: Tom Englund &lt;tomenglund26@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218404
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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The EFI stub's kernel placement logic randomizes the physical placement
of the kernel by taking all available memory into account, and picking a
region at random, based on a random seed.

When KASLR is disabled, this seed is set to 0x0, and this results in the
lowest available region of memory to be selected for loading the kernel,
even if this is below LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR. Some of this memory is
typically reserved for the GFP_DMA region, to accommodate masters that
can only access the first 16 MiB of system memory.

Even if such devices are rare these days, we may still end up with a
warning in the kernel log, as reported by Tom:

 swapper/0: page allocation failure: order:10, mode:0xcc1(GFP_KERNEL|GFP_DMA), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0

Fix this by tweaking the random allocation logic to accept a low bound
on the placement, and set it to LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR.

Fixes: a1b87d54f4e4 ("x86/efistub: Avoid legacy decompressor when doing EFI boot")
Reported-by: Tom Englund &lt;tomenglund26@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218404
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/efistub: Give up if memory attribute protocol returns an error</title>
<updated>2024-01-26T15:58:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-26T11:14:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=a7a6a01f88e87dec4bf2365571dd2dc7403d52d0'/>
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The recently introduced EFI memory attributes protocol should be used
if it exists to ensure that the memory allocation created for the kernel
permits execution. This is needed for compatibility with tightened
requirements related to Windows logo certification for x86 PCs.

Currently, we simply strip the execute protect (XP) attribute from the
entire range, but this might be rejected under some firmware security
policies, and so in a subsequent patch, this will be changed to only
strip XP from the executable region that runs early, and make it
read-only (RO) as well.

In order to catch any issues early, ensure that the memory attribute
protocol works as intended, and give up if it produces spurious errors.

Note that the DXE services based fallback was always based on best
effort, so don't propagate any errors returned by that API.

Fixes: a1b87d54f4e4 ("x86/efistub: Avoid legacy decompressor when doing EFI boot")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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The recently introduced EFI memory attributes protocol should be used
if it exists to ensure that the memory allocation created for the kernel
permits execution. This is needed for compatibility with tightened
requirements related to Windows logo certification for x86 PCs.

Currently, we simply strip the execute protect (XP) attribute from the
entire range, but this might be rejected under some firmware security
policies, and so in a subsequent patch, this will be changed to only
strip XP from the executable region that runs early, and make it
read-only (RO) as well.

In order to catch any issues early, ensure that the memory attribute
protocol works as intended, and give up if it produces spurious errors.

Note that the DXE services based fallback was always based on best
effort, so don't propagate any errors returned by that API.

Fixes: a1b87d54f4e4 ("x86/efistub: Avoid legacy decompressor when doing EFI boot")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>riscv/efistub: Tighten ELF relocation check</title>
<updated>2024-01-23T13:31:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-16T13:52:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d2baf8cc82c17459fca019a12348efcf86bfec29'/>
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<content type='text'>
The EFI stub makefile contains logic to ensure that the objects that
make up the stub do not contain relocations that require runtime fixups
(typically to account for the runtime load address of the executable)

On RISC-V, we also avoid GP based relocations, as they require that GP
is assigned the correct base in the startup code, which is not
implemented in the EFI stub.

So add these relocation types to the grep expression that is used to
carry out this check.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/42c63cb9-87d0-49db-9af8-95771b186684%40siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
The EFI stub makefile contains logic to ensure that the objects that
make up the stub do not contain relocations that require runtime fixups
(typically to account for the runtime load address of the executable)

On RISC-V, we also avoid GP based relocations, as they require that GP
is assigned the correct base in the startup code, which is not
implemented in the EFI stub.

So add these relocation types to the grep expression that is used to
carry out this check.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/42c63cb9-87d0-49db-9af8-95771b186684%40siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>riscv/efistub: Ensure GP-relative addressing is not used</title>
<updated>2024-01-23T13:31:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kiszka</name>
<email>jan.kiszka@siemens.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-12T18:37:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=afb2a4fb84555ef9e61061f6ea63ed7087b295d5'/>
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The cflags for the RISC-V efistub were missing -mno-relax, thus were
under the risk that the compiler could use GP-relative addressing. That
happened for _edata with binutils-2.41 and kernel 6.1, causing the
relocation to fail due to an invalid kernel_size in handle_kernel_image.
It was not yet observed with newer versions, but that may just be luck.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka &lt;jan.kiszka@siemens.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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The cflags for the RISC-V efistub were missing -mno-relax, thus were
under the risk that the compiler could use GP-relative addressing. That
happened for _edata with binutils-2.41 and kernel 6.1, causing the
relocation to fail due to an invalid kernel_size in handle_kernel_image.
It was not yet observed with newer versions, but that may just be luck.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka &lt;jan.kiszka@siemens.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'efi-next-for-v6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi</title>
<updated>2024-01-10T01:11:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-10T01:11:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=a7e4c6cf5bbbd8fea2be1cef0540e5cf107c43c2'/>
<id>a7e4c6cf5bbbd8fea2be1cef0540e5cf107c43c2</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull EFI updates from Ard Biesheuvel:

 - Fix a syzbot reported issue in efivarfs where concurrent accesses to
   the file system resulted in list corruption

 - Add support for accessing EFI variables via the TEE subsystem (and a
   trusted application in the secure world) instead of via EFI runtime
   firmware running in the OS's execution context

 - Avoid linker tricks to discover the image base on LoongArch

* tag 'efi-next-for-v6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi:
  efi: memmap: fix kernel-doc warnings
  efi/loongarch: Directly position the loaded image file
  efivarfs: automatically update super block flag
  efi: Add tee-based EFI variable driver
  efi: Add EFI_ACCESS_DENIED status code
  efi: expose efivar generic ops register function
  efivarfs: Move efivarfs list into superblock s_fs_info
  efivarfs: Free s_fs_info on unmount
  efivarfs: Move efivar availability check into FS context init
  efivarfs: force RO when remounting if SetVariable is not supported
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<pre>
Pull EFI updates from Ard Biesheuvel:

 - Fix a syzbot reported issue in efivarfs where concurrent accesses to
   the file system resulted in list corruption

 - Add support for accessing EFI variables via the TEE subsystem (and a
   trusted application in the secure world) instead of via EFI runtime
   firmware running in the OS's execution context

 - Avoid linker tricks to discover the image base on LoongArch

* tag 'efi-next-for-v6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi:
  efi: memmap: fix kernel-doc warnings
  efi/loongarch: Directly position the loaded image file
  efivarfs: automatically update super block flag
  efi: Add tee-based EFI variable driver
  efi: Add EFI_ACCESS_DENIED status code
  efi: expose efivar generic ops register function
  efivarfs: Move efivarfs list into superblock s_fs_info
  efivarfs: Free s_fs_info on unmount
  efivarfs: Move efivar availability check into FS context init
  efivarfs: force RO when remounting if SetVariable is not supported
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86-asm-2024-01-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-01-09T01:02:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-09T01:02:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=106b88d7a91e2b4d40369a20b8ef07bb827dafd5'/>
<id>106b88d7a91e2b4d40369a20b8ef07bb827dafd5</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Replace magic numbers in GDT descriptor definitions &amp; handling:

   - Introduce symbolic names via macros for descriptor
     types/fields/flags, and then use these symbolic names.

   - Clean up definitions a bit, such as GDT_ENTRY_INIT()

   - Fix/clean up details that became visibly inconsistent after the
     symbol-based code was introduced:

      - Unify accessed flag handling

      - Set the D/B size flag consistently &amp; according to the HW
        specification"

* tag 'x86-asm-2024-01-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/asm: Add DB flag to 32-bit percpu GDT entry
  x86/asm: Always set A (accessed) flag in GDT descriptors
  x86/asm: Replace magic numbers in GDT descriptors, script-generated change
  x86/asm: Replace magic numbers in GDT descriptors, preparations
  x86/asm: Provide new infrastructure for GDT descriptors
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<pre>
Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Replace magic numbers in GDT descriptor definitions &amp; handling:

   - Introduce symbolic names via macros for descriptor
     types/fields/flags, and then use these symbolic names.

   - Clean up definitions a bit, such as GDT_ENTRY_INIT()

   - Fix/clean up details that became visibly inconsistent after the
     symbol-based code was introduced:

      - Unify accessed flag handling

      - Set the D/B size flag consistently &amp; according to the HW
        specification"

* tag 'x86-asm-2024-01-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/asm: Add DB flag to 32-bit percpu GDT entry
  x86/asm: Always set A (accessed) flag in GDT descriptors
  x86/asm: Replace magic numbers in GDT descriptors, script-generated change
  x86/asm: Replace magic numbers in GDT descriptors, preparations
  x86/asm: Provide new infrastructure for GDT descriptors
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2024-01-09T00:32:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-09T00:32:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ab5f3fcb7c72094684760e0cd8954d8d570b5e83'/>
<id>ab5f3fcb7c72094684760e0cd8954d8d570b5e83</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "CPU features:

   - Remove ARM64_HAS_NO_HW_PREFETCH copy_page() optimisation for ye
     olde Thunder-X machines

   - Avoid mapping KPTI trampoline when it is not required

   - Make CPU capability API more robust during early initialisation

  Early idreg overrides:

   - Remove dependencies on core kernel helpers from the early
     command-line parsing logic in preparation for moving this code
     before the kernel is mapped

  FPsimd:

   - Restore kernel-mode fpsimd context lazily, allowing us to run
     fpsimd code sequences in the kernel with pre-emption enabled

  KBuild:

   - Install 'vmlinuz.efi' when CONFIG_EFI_ZBOOT=y

   - Makefile cleanups

  LPA2 prep:

   - Preparatory work for enabling the 'LPA2' extension, which will
     introduce 52-bit virtual and physical addressing even with 4KiB
     pages (including for KVM guests).

  Misc:

   - Remove dead code and fix a typo

  MM:

   - Pass NUMA node information for IRQ stack allocations

  Perf:

   - Add perf support for the Synopsys DesignWare PCIe PMU

   - Add support for event counting thresholds (FEAT_PMUv3_TH)
     introduced in Armv8.8

   - Add support for i.MX8DXL SoCs to the IMX DDR PMU driver.

   - Minor PMU driver fixes and optimisations

  RIP VPIPT:

   - Remove what support we had for the obsolete VPIPT I-cache policy

  Selftests:

   - Improvements to the SVE and SME selftests

  Stacktrace:

   - Refactor kernel unwind logic so that it can used by BPF unwinding
     and, eventually, reliable backtracing

  Sysregs:

   - Update a bunch of register definitions based on the latest XML drop
     from Arm"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (87 commits)
  kselftest/arm64: Don't probe the current VL for unsupported vector types
  efi/libstub: zboot: do not use $(shell ...) in cmd_copy_and_pad
  arm64: properly install vmlinuz.efi
  arm64/sysreg: Add missing system instruction definitions for FGT
  arm64/sysreg: Add missing system register definitions for FGT
  arm64/sysreg: Add missing ExtTrcBuff field definition to ID_AA64DFR0_EL1
  arm64/sysreg: Add missing Pauth_LR field definitions to ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1
  arm64: memory: remove duplicated include
  arm: perf: Fix ARCH=arm build with GCC
  arm64: Align boot cpucap handling with system cpucap handling
  arm64: Cleanup system cpucap handling
  MAINTAINERS: add maintainers for DesignWare PCIe PMU driver
  drivers/perf: add DesignWare PCIe PMU driver
  PCI: Move pci_clear_and_set_dword() helper to PCI header
  PCI: Add Alibaba Vendor ID to linux/pci_ids.h
  docs: perf: Add description for Synopsys DesignWare PCIe PMU driver
  arm64: irq: set the correct node for shadow call stack
  Revert "perf/arm_dmc620: Remove duplicate format attribute #defines"
  arm64: fpsimd: Implement lazy restore for kernel mode FPSIMD
  arm64: fpsimd: Preserve/restore kernel mode NEON at context switch
  ...
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<pre>
Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "CPU features:

   - Remove ARM64_HAS_NO_HW_PREFETCH copy_page() optimisation for ye
     olde Thunder-X machines

   - Avoid mapping KPTI trampoline when it is not required

   - Make CPU capability API more robust during early initialisation

  Early idreg overrides:

   - Remove dependencies on core kernel helpers from the early
     command-line parsing logic in preparation for moving this code
     before the kernel is mapped

  FPsimd:

   - Restore kernel-mode fpsimd context lazily, allowing us to run
     fpsimd code sequences in the kernel with pre-emption enabled

  KBuild:

   - Install 'vmlinuz.efi' when CONFIG_EFI_ZBOOT=y

   - Makefile cleanups

  LPA2 prep:

   - Preparatory work for enabling the 'LPA2' extension, which will
     introduce 52-bit virtual and physical addressing even with 4KiB
     pages (including for KVM guests).

  Misc:

   - Remove dead code and fix a typo

  MM:

   - Pass NUMA node information for IRQ stack allocations

  Perf:

   - Add perf support for the Synopsys DesignWare PCIe PMU

   - Add support for event counting thresholds (FEAT_PMUv3_TH)
     introduced in Armv8.8

   - Add support for i.MX8DXL SoCs to the IMX DDR PMU driver.

   - Minor PMU driver fixes and optimisations

  RIP VPIPT:

   - Remove what support we had for the obsolete VPIPT I-cache policy

  Selftests:

   - Improvements to the SVE and SME selftests

  Stacktrace:

   - Refactor kernel unwind logic so that it can used by BPF unwinding
     and, eventually, reliable backtracing

  Sysregs:

   - Update a bunch of register definitions based on the latest XML drop
     from Arm"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (87 commits)
  kselftest/arm64: Don't probe the current VL for unsupported vector types
  efi/libstub: zboot: do not use $(shell ...) in cmd_copy_and_pad
  arm64: properly install vmlinuz.efi
  arm64/sysreg: Add missing system instruction definitions for FGT
  arm64/sysreg: Add missing system register definitions for FGT
  arm64/sysreg: Add missing ExtTrcBuff field definition to ID_AA64DFR0_EL1
  arm64/sysreg: Add missing Pauth_LR field definitions to ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1
  arm64: memory: remove duplicated include
  arm: perf: Fix ARCH=arm build with GCC
  arm64: Align boot cpucap handling with system cpucap handling
  arm64: Cleanup system cpucap handling
  MAINTAINERS: add maintainers for DesignWare PCIe PMU driver
  drivers/perf: add DesignWare PCIe PMU driver
  PCI: Move pci_clear_and_set_dword() helper to PCI header
  PCI: Add Alibaba Vendor ID to linux/pci_ids.h
  docs: perf: Add description for Synopsys DesignWare PCIe PMU driver
  arm64: irq: set the correct node for shadow call stack
  Revert "perf/arm_dmc620: Remove duplicate format attribute #defines"
  arm64: fpsimd: Implement lazy restore for kernel mode FPSIMD
  arm64: fpsimd: Preserve/restore kernel mode NEON at context switch
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>efi/x86: Fix the missing KASLR_FLAG bit in boot_params-&gt;hdr.loadflags</title>
<updated>2024-01-02T15:51:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuntao Wang</name>
<email>ytcoode@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-26T14:02:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=01638431c465741e071ab34acf3bef3c2570f878'/>
<id>01638431c465741e071ab34acf3bef3c2570f878</id>
<content type='text'>
When KASLR is enabled, the KASLR_FLAG bit in boot_params-&gt;hdr.loadflags
should be set to 1 to propagate KASLR status from compressed kernel to
kernel, just as the choose_random_location() function does.

Currently, when the kernel is booted via the EFI stub, the KASLR_FLAG
bit in boot_params-&gt;hdr.loadflags is not set, even though it should be.
This causes some functions, such as kernel_randomize_memory(), not to
execute as expected. Fix it.

Fixes: a1b87d54f4e4 ("x86/efistub: Avoid legacy decompressor when doing EFI boot")
Signed-off-by: Yuntao Wang &lt;ytcoode@gmail.com&gt;
[ardb: drop 'else' branch clearing KASLR_FLAG]
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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When KASLR is enabled, the KASLR_FLAG bit in boot_params-&gt;hdr.loadflags
should be set to 1 to propagate KASLR status from compressed kernel to
kernel, just as the choose_random_location() function does.

Currently, when the kernel is booted via the EFI stub, the KASLR_FLAG
bit in boot_params-&gt;hdr.loadflags is not set, even though it should be.
This causes some functions, such as kernel_randomize_memory(), not to
execute as expected. Fix it.

Fixes: a1b87d54f4e4 ("x86/efistub: Avoid legacy decompressor when doing EFI boot")
Signed-off-by: Yuntao Wang &lt;ytcoode@gmail.com&gt;
[ardb: drop 'else' branch clearing KASLR_FLAG]
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>x86/asm: Always set A (accessed) flag in GDT descriptors</title>
<updated>2023-12-20T09:57:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vegard Nossum</name>
<email>vegard.nossum@oracle.com</email>
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<published>2023-12-19T15:11:59+00:00</published>
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We have no known use for having the CPU track whether GDT descriptors
have been accessed or not.

Simplify the code by adding the flag to the common flags and removing
it everywhere else.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231219151200.2878271-5-vegard.nossum@oracle.com
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We have no known use for having the CPU track whether GDT descriptors
have been accessed or not.

Simplify the code by adding the flag to the common flags and removing
it everywhere else.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231219151200.2878271-5-vegard.nossum@oracle.com
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