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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-09-15 14:17:27 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-09-15 14:17:27 +0200
commitaa2eaa8c272a3211dec07ce9c6c863a7e355c10e (patch)
tree8454a23d36b2ff36133c276ee0ba80eabc00850e /Documentation
parenta3d3c74da49c65fc63a937fa559186b0e16adca3 (diff)
parent1609d7604b847a9820e63393d1a3b6cac7286d40 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
Minor overlapping changes in the btusb and ixgbe drivers. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues.rst14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.txt13
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues.rst b/Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues.rst
index d37cbc502936..402636356fbe 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues.rst
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Scope
-----
Hardware issues which result in security problems are a different category
-of security bugs than pure software bugs which only affect the Linux
+of security bugs than pure software bugs which only affect the Linux
kernel.
Hardware issues like Meltdown, Spectre, L1TF etc. must be treated
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ Mitigation development
The initial response team sets up an encrypted mailing-list or repurposes
an existing one if appropriate. The disclosing party should provide a list
-of contacts for all other parties who have already been, or should be
+of contacts for all other parties who have already been, or should be,
informed about the issue. The response team contacts these parties so they
can name experts who should be subscribed to the mailing-list.
@@ -217,11 +217,11 @@ an involved disclosed party. The current ambassadors list:
AMD
IBM
Intel
- Qualcomm
+ Qualcomm Trilok Soni <tsoni@codeaurora.org>
- Microsoft
+ Microsoft Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
VMware
- XEN
+ Xen Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Canonical Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Debian Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
@@ -230,8 +230,8 @@ an involved disclosed party. The current ambassadors list:
SUSE Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Amazon
- Google
- ============== ========================================================
+ Google Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
+ ============= ========================================================
If you want your organization to be added to the ambassadors list, please
contact the hardware security team. The nominated ambassador has to
diff --git a/Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.txt b/Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.txt
index 1b73fea23b39..14b1492f689b 100644
--- a/Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.txt
+++ b/Documentation/riscv/boot-image-header.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ The following 64-byte header is present in decompressed Linux kernel image.
u32 res1 = 0; /* Reserved */
u64 res2 = 0; /* Reserved */
u64 magic = 0x5643534952; /* Magic number, little endian, "RISCV" */
- u32 res3; /* Reserved for additional RISC-V specific header */
+ u32 magic2 = 0x56534905; /* Magic number 2, little endian, "RSC\x05" */
u32 res4; /* Reserved for PE COFF offset */
This header format is compliant with PE/COFF header and largely inspired from
@@ -37,13 +37,14 @@ Notes:
Bits 16:31 - Major version
This preserves compatibility across newer and older version of the header.
- The current version is defined as 0.1.
+ The current version is defined as 0.2.
-- res3 is reserved for offset to any other additional fields. This makes the
- header extendible in future. One example would be to accommodate ISA
- extension for RISC-V in future. For current version, it is set to be zero.
+- The "magic" field is deprecated as of version 0.2. In a future
+ release, it may be removed. This originally should have matched up
+ with the ARM64 header "magic" field, but unfortunately does not.
+ The "magic2" field replaces it, matching up with the ARM64 header.
-- In current header, the flag field has only one field.
+- In current header, the flags field has only one field.
Bit 0: Kernel endianness. 1 if BE, 0 if LE.
- Image size is mandatory for boot loader to load kernel image. Booting will