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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-02-20 09:32:40 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-02-20 09:32:40 -0800 |
| commit | 0389075ecfb6231818de9b0225d3a5a21a661171 (patch) | |
| tree | 991154188efee4117974d9aa5bcd7497257c7656 /Documentation | |
| parent | 06b74c658c595e4ef9fd5746f927a1cb6c3a59d5 (diff) | |
| parent | f4eafd8bcd5229e998aa252627703b8462c3b90f (diff) | |
| download | linux-0389075ecfb6231818de9b0225d3a5a21a661171.tar.bz2 | |
Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"This is unusually large, partly due to the EFI fixes that prevent
accidental deletion of EFI variables through efivarfs that may brick
machines. These fixes are somewhat involved to maintain compatibility
with existing install methods and other usage modes, while trying to
turn off the 'rm -rf' bricking vector.
Other fixes are for large page ioremap()s and for non-temporal
user-memcpy()s"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/mm: Fix vmalloc_fault() to handle large pages properly
hpet: Drop stale URLs
x86/uaccess/64: Handle the caching of 4-byte nocache copies properly in __copy_user_nocache()
x86/uaccess/64: Make the __copy_user_nocache() assembly code more readable
lib/ucs2_string: Correct ucs2 -> utf8 conversion
efi: Add pstore variables to the deletion whitelist
efi: Make efivarfs entries immutable by default
efi: Make our variable validation list include the guid
efi: Do variable name validation tests in utf8
efi: Use ucs2_as_utf8 in efivarfs instead of open coding a bad version
lib/ucs2_string: Add ucs2 -> utf8 helper functions
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/timers/hpet.txt | 4 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt index c477af086e65..686a64bba775 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt @@ -14,3 +14,10 @@ filesystem. efivarfs is typically mounted like this, mount -t efivarfs none /sys/firmware/efi/efivars + +Due to the presence of numerous firmware bugs where removing non-standard +UEFI variables causes the system firmware to fail to POST, efivarfs +files that are not well-known standardized variables are created +as immutable files. This doesn't prevent removal - "chattr -i" will work - +but it does prevent this kind of failure from being accomplished +accidentally. diff --git a/Documentation/timers/hpet.txt b/Documentation/timers/hpet.txt index 767392ffd31e..a484d2c109d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/timers/hpet.txt +++ b/Documentation/timers/hpet.txt @@ -1,9 +1,7 @@ High Precision Event Timer Driver for Linux The High Precision Event Timer (HPET) hardware follows a specification -by Intel and Microsoft which can be found at - - http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf +by Intel and Microsoft, revision 1. Each HPET has one fixed-rate counter (at 10+ MHz, hence "High Precision") and up to 32 comparators. Normally three or more comparators are provided, |