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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 07:54:07 +0200
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
To: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, 
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>, 
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>, 
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>, 
	clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>, 
	Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, 
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, 
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/18] arm64: efi: restore x18 if it was corrupted

On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 at 00:40, Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 11:20 PM Ard Biesheuvel
> <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org> wrote:
> > You'll have to elaborate a bit here and explain that this is
> > sufficient, given that we run EFI runtime services with interrupts
> > enabled.
>
> I can add a note about this in v2. This is called with preemption
> disabled and we have a separate interrupt shadow stack, so as far as I
> can tell, this should be sufficient. Did you have concerns about this?
>

No concerns, but we should put the above clarification in the commit log.

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