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Ard Biesheuvel 50d7cdf7a9 efi/x86: Avoid physical KASLR on older Dell systems 
River reports boot hangs with v6.6 and v6.7, and the bisect points to
commit

  a1b87d54f4 ("x86/efistub: Avoid legacy decompressor when doing EFI boot")

which moves the memory allocation and kernel decompression from the
legacy decompressor (which executes *after* ExitBootServices()) to the
EFI stub, using boot services for allocating the memory. The memory
allocation succeeds but the subsequent call to decompress_kernel() never
returns, resulting in a failed boot and a hanging system.

As it turns out, this issue only occurs when physical address
randomization (KASLR) is enabled, and given that this is a feature we
can live without (virtual KASLR is much more important), let's disable
the physical part of KASLR when booting on AMI UEFI firmware claiming to
implement revision v2.0 of the specification (which was released in
2006), as this is the version these systems advertise.

Fixes: a1b87d54f4 ("x86/efistub: Avoid legacy decompressor when doing EFI boot")
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218173
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
2023-12-11 17:57:42 +01:00
arch efi/loongarch: Use load address to calculate kernel entry address 2023-12-11 11:18:26 +01:00
block vfs-6.7-rc3.fixes 2023-11-24 09:45:40 -08:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto This push fixes a regression in ahash and hides the Kconfig sub-options for the jitter RNG. 2023-11-09 17:04:58 -08:00
Documentation USB / PHY / Thunderbolt fixes and ids for 6.7-rc3 2023-11-25 18:22:42 -08:00
drivers efi/x86: Avoid physical KASLR on older Dell systems 2023-12-11 17:57:42 +01:00
fs eventfs fixes: 2023-11-26 19:48:20 -08:00
include USB / PHY / Thunderbolt fixes and ids for 6.7-rc3 2023-11-25 18:22:42 -08:00
init As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree and 2023-11-02 20:53:31 -10:00
io_uring io_uring: fix off-by one bvec index 2023-11-20 15:21:38 -07:00
ipc Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are 2023-11-02 19:38:47 -10:00
kernel Fix lockdep block chain corruption resulting in KASAN warnings. 2023-11-26 08:30:11 -08:00
lib parisc architecture fixes for kernel v6.7-rc3: 2023-11-26 09:59:39 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm vfs-6.7-rc3.fixes 2023-11-24 09:45:40 -08:00
net tls: fix NULL deref on tls_sw_splice_eof() with empty record 2023-11-23 08:51:45 -08:00
rust Kbuild updates for v6.7 2023-11-04 08:07:19 -10:00
samples Landlock updates for v6.7-rc1 2023-11-03 09:28:53 -10:00
scripts scripts/checkstack.pl: match all stack sizes for s390 2023-11-22 15:06:23 +01:00
security + Features 2023-11-03 09:48:17 -10:00
sound sound fixes for 6.7-rc2 2023-11-17 09:05:31 -05:00
tools parisc architecture fixes for kernel v6.7-rc3: 2023-11-26 09:59:39 -08:00
usr arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture 2023-09-11 08:13:17 +00:00
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
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: generate kernel.spec in rpmbuild/SPECS/ 2023-10-03 20:49:09 +09:00
.mailmap As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree and 2023-11-02 20:53:31 -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 eventfs fixes: 2023-11-26 19:48:20 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.7-rc3 2023-11-26 19:59:33 -08:00
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README 

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

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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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.