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From:   Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Date:   Wed, 6 Nov 2019 15:59:04 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] EFI/stub: tpm: enable tpm eventlog function for ARM64 platform
To:     Xinwei Kong <kong.kongxinwei@hisilicon.com>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>,
        linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linuxarm <linuxarm@huawei.com>, zoucao@linux.alibaba.com
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On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 at 15:56, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 at 09:29, Xinwei Kong <kong.kongxinwei@hisilicon.com> wrote:
> >
> > this patch gets tpm eventlog information such as device boot status,event guid
> > and so on, which will be from bios stage. it use "efi_retrieve_tpm2_eventlog"
> > functions to get it for ARM64 platorm.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Xinwei Kong <kong.kongxinwei@hisilicon.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Zou Cao <zoucao@linux.alibaba.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c
> > index c382a48..37c8f81 100644
> > --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c
> > +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c
> > @@ -139,6 +139,8 @@ unsigned long efi_entry(void *handle, efi_system_table_t *sys_table,
> >         if (status != EFI_SUCCESS)
> >                 goto fail;
> >
> > +       efi_retrieve_tpm2_eventlog(sys_table);
> > +
>
> This function allocates memory, so calling it should be deferred until
> after we relocate the kernel, to prevent these allocations from using
> up space that we'd rather use for the kernel.
>
> Does it work for you if we move this call further down, right before
> the call to efi_enable_reset_attack_mitigation()? Please confirm.
>

Also, your S-o-b chain is incorrect. If Zou Cao provided you with the
patch, please credit her/him as the author (using git --reset-author)
and move your S-o-b last. If Zou Cao was a co-author [which seems
unlikely for a single line patch], use Co-developed-by+Signed-off-by.
In any case, the S-o-b of the person sending out the patch via email
should come last.