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Ard Biesheuvel ae863aa184 x86/efistub: Clear decompressor BSS in native EFI entrypoint 
[ Upstream commit b3810c5a2c ]

The EFI stub on x86 no longer invokes the decompressor as a subsequent
boot stage, but calls into the decompression code directly while running
in the context of the EFI boot services.

This means that when using the native EFI entrypoint (as opposed to the
EFI handover protocol, which clears BSS explicitly), the firmware PE
image loader is being relied upon to ensure that BSS is zeroed before
the EFI stub is entered from the firmware.

As Radek's report proves, this is a bad idea. Not all loaders do this
correctly, which means some global variables that should be statically
initialized to 0x0 may have junk in them.

So clear BSS explicitly when entering via efi_pe_entry(). Note that
zeroing BSS from C code is not generally safe, but in this case, the
following assignment and dereference of a global pointer variable
ensures that the memset() cannot be deferred or reordered.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # v6.1+
Reported-by: Radek Podgorny <radek@podgorny.cz>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/a99a831a-8ad5-4cb0-bff9-be637311f771@podgorny.cz
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2024-03-26 18:20:13 -04:00
arch riscv: Fix compilation error with FAST_GUP and rv32 2024-03-26 18:20:09 -04:00
block block: Provide bdev_open_* functions 2024-03-26 18:19:40 -04:00
certs certs: Reference revocation list for all keyrings 2023-08-17 20:12:41 +00:00
crypto crypto: jitter - fix CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY help text 2024-03-26 18:19:52 -04:00
Documentation dt-bindings: msm: qcom, mdss: Include ommited fam-b compatible 2024-03-26 18:19:47 -04:00
drivers x86/efistub: Clear decompressor BSS in native EFI entrypoint 2024-03-26 18:20:13 -04:00
fs ceph: stop copying to iter at EOF on sync reads 2024-03-26 18:20:11 -04:00
include dm io: Support IO priority 2024-03-26 18:20:13 -04:00
init modules: wait do_free_init correctly 2024-03-26 18:19:55 -04:00
io_uring io_uring: fix poll_remove stalled req completion 2024-03-26 18:20:09 -04:00
ipc Add x86 shadow stack support 2023-08-31 12:20:12 -07:00
kernel bpf: report RCU QS in cpumap kthread 2024-03-26 18:20:12 -04:00
lib net: blackhole_dev: fix build warning for ethh set but not used 2024-03-26 18:19:26 -04:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm quota: Properly annotate i_dquot arrays with __rcu 2024-03-26 18:19:46 -04:00
net netfilter: nf_tables: Fix a memory leak in nf_tables_updchain 2024-03-26 18:20:13 -04:00
rust rust: upgrade to Rust 1.73.0 2024-02-16 19:10:43 +01:00
samples work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with outputs 2024-02-23 09:24:47 +01:00
scripts kconfig: fix infinite loop when expanding a macro at the end of file 2024-03-26 18:20:05 -04:00
security landlock: Fix asymmetric private inodes referring 2024-03-06 14:48:39 +00:00
sound ASoC: rockchip: i2s-tdm: Fix inaccurate sampling rates 2024-03-26 18:20:07 -04:00
tools selftests: forwarding: Fix ping failure due to short timeout 2024-03-26 18:20:13 -04:00
usr initramfs: Encode dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP 2023-06-06 17:54:49 +09:00
virt ARM: 2023-09-07 13:52:20 -07:00
.clang-format iommu: Add for_each_group_device() 2023-05-23 08:15:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: rename binkernel.spec to kernel.spec 2023-07-25 00:59:33 +09:00
.mailmap 20 hotfixes. 12 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.5 issues 2023-10-24 09:52:16 -10:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS USB: Remove Wireless USB and UWB documentation 2023-08-09 14:17:32 +02:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add Catherine as xfs maintainer for 6.6.y 2024-02-16 19:10:43 +01:00
Makefile Linux 6.6.22 2024-03-15 14:25:07 -04:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

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

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

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.