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Michael Roth 6044d159b5 x86/boot: Put globals that are accessed early into the .data section
The helpers in arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi.c might be used during
early boot to access the EFI system/config tables, and in some cases
these EFI helpers might attempt to print debug/error messages, before
console_init() has been called.

__putstr() checks some variables to avoid printing anything before
the console has been initialized, but this isn't enough since those
variables live in .bss, which may not have been cleared yet. This can
lead to a triple-fault occurring, primarily when booting in legacy/CSM
mode (where EFI helpers will attempt to print some debug messages).

Fix this by declaring these globals in .data section instead so there
is no dependency on .bss being cleared before accessing them.

Fixes: c01fce9cef ("x86/compressed: Add SEV-SNP feature detection/setup")
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Suggested-by: Thomas Lendacky <Thomas.Lendacky@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420152613.145077-1-michael.roth@amd.com
2022-04-20 20:10:54 +02:00
arch x86/boot: Put globals that are accessed early into the .data section 2022-04-20 20:10:54 +02:00
block for-5.18/block-2022-04-01 2022-04-01 16:20:00 -07:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
crypto for-5.18/64bit-pi-2022-03-25 2022-03-26 12:01:35 -07:00
Documentation virt: sevguest: Add documentation for SEV-SNP CPUID Enforcement 2022-04-07 16:47:12 +02:00
drivers virt: sevguest: Fix bool function returning negative value 2022-04-14 13:53:35 +02:00
fs Updates to Tracing: 2022-04-03 12:26:01 -07:00
include virt: sevguest: Add support to get extended report 2022-04-07 16:47:12 +02:00
init Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
ipc fs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb() 2022-03-22 15:57:03 -07:00
kernel Updates to Tracing: 2022-04-03 12:26:01 -07:00
lib for-5.18/block-2022-04-01 2022-04-01 16:20:00 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm Filesystem/VFS changes for 5.18, part two 2022-04-01 13:50:50 -07:00
net Networking fixes for 5.18-rc1 and rethook patches. 2022-03-31 11:23:31 -07:00
samples dma-mapping updates for Linux 5.18 2022-03-29 08:50:14 -07:00
scripts modpost: restore the warning message for missing symbol versions 2022-04-03 03:11:51 +09:00
security hardening updates for v5.18-rc1-fix1 2022-03-31 11:43:01 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.18-rc1 2022-04-01 10:32:46 -07:00
tools A set of x86 fixes and updates: 2022-04-03 12:15:47 -07:00
usr Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
virt KVM: Remove dirty handling from gfn_to_pfn_cache completely 2022-04-02 05:34:41 -04:00
.clang-format genirq/msi: Make interrupt allocation less convoluted 2021-12-16 22:22:20 +01:00
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COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: replace a Microchip AT91 maintainer 2022-02-09 11:30:01 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS chrome platform changes for 5.18 2022-04-02 10:44:18 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.18-rc1 2022-04-03 14:08:21 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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.