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Matthew Garrett 04178b1709 x86/efi: Clarify that reset attack mitigation needs appropriate userspace
commit a5c03c31af upstream.

Some distributions have turned on the reset attack mitigation feature,
which is designed to force the platform to clear the contents of RAM if
the machine is shut down uncleanly. However, in order for the platform
to be able to determine whether the shutdown was clean or not, userspace
has to be configured to clear the MemoryOverwriteRequest flag on
shutdown - otherwise the firmware will end up clearing RAM on every
reboot, which is unnecessarily time consuming. Add some additional
clarity to the kconfig text to reduce the risk of systems being
configured this way.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2018-02-03 17:39:25 +01:00
arch KVM: x86: emulate #UD while in guest mode 2018-02-03 17:39:18 +01:00
block block: don't let passthrough IO go into .make_request_fn() 2018-01-02 20:31:05 +01:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - whitelist mask and type 2018-02-03 17:38:51 +01:00
Documentation x86/pti: Document fix wrong index 2018-01-23 19:58:20 +01:00
drivers x86/efi: Clarify that reset attack mitigation needs appropriate userspace 2018-02-03 17:39:25 +01:00
firmware License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
fs xfs: Properly retry failed dquot items in case of error during buffer writeback 2018-02-03 17:39:15 +01:00
include tty: fix data race between tty_init_dev and flush of buf 2018-02-03 17:39:19 +01:00
init bpf: introduce BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON config 2018-01-31 14:03:49 +01:00
ipc License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
kernel perf/core: Fix memory leak triggered by perf --namespace 2018-02-03 17:39:15 +01:00
lib test_firmware: fix missing unlock on error in config_num_requests_store() 2018-02-03 17:39:24 +01:00
mm kmemleak: add scheduling point to kmemleak_scan() 2018-02-03 17:39:12 +01:00
net SUNRPC: Allow connect to return EHOSTUNREACH 2018-02-03 17:39:11 +01:00
samples samples/bpf: adjust rlimit RLIMIT_MEMLOCK for xdp1 2017-12-20 10:10:31 +01:00
scripts scripts/faddr2line: extend usage on generic arch 2018-02-03 17:39:12 +01:00
security ima/policy: fix parsing of fsuuid 2018-02-03 17:38:53 +01:00
sound ALSA: hda - Reduce the suspend time consumption for ALC256 2018-02-03 17:38:48 +01:00
tools usbip: list: don't list devices attached to vhci_hcd 2018-02-03 17:39:20 +01:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM: Let KVM_SET_SIGNAL_MASK work as advertised 2018-02-03 17:39:06 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap .mailmap: Add Maciej W. Rozycki's Imagination e-mail address 2017-11-10 12:16:15 -08:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-11-09 18:26:51 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.14.16 2018-01-31 14:03:50 +01:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

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

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.