From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>,
Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>,
Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>,
Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>, Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>,
Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>,
Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 13/21] efi/x86: Do not clean dummy variable in kexec path
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 18:09:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191018221007.10851-13-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191018221007.10851-1-sashal@kernel.org>
From: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
[ Upstream commit 2ecb7402cfc7f22764e7bbc80790e66eadb20560 ]
kexec reboot fails randomly in UEFI based KVM guest. The firmware
just resets while calling efi_delete_dummy_variable(); Unfortunately
I don't know how to debug the firmware, it is also possible a potential
problem on real hardware as well although nobody reproduced it.
The intention of the efi_delete_dummy_variable is to trigger garbage collection
when entering virtual mode. But SetVirtualAddressMap can only run once
for each physical reboot, thus kexec_enter_virtual_mode() is not necessarily
a good place to clean a dummy object.
Drop the efi_delete_dummy_variable so that kexec reboot can work.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Cc: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Cc: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191002165904.8819-8-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
index ad285404ea7f5..4bc352fc08f19 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
@@ -859,9 +859,6 @@ static void __init kexec_enter_virtual_mode(void)
if (efi_enabled(EFI_OLD_MEMMAP) && (__supported_pte_mask & _PAGE_NX))
runtime_code_page_mkexec();
-
- /* clean DUMMY object */
- efi_delete_dummy_variable();
#endif
}
--
2.20.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-18 22:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-18 22:09 [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 01/21] sc16is7xx: Fix for "Unexpected interrupt: 8" Sasha Levin
2019-10-18 22:09 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 02/21] x86/cpu: Add Atom Tremont (Jacobsville) Sasha Levin
2019-10-18 22:09 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 03/21] scripts/setlocalversion: Improve -dirty check with git-status --no-optional-locks Sasha Levin
2019-10-18 22:09 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 04/21] usb: handle warm-reset port requests on hub resume Sasha Levin
2019-10-18 22:09 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 05/21] exec: load_script: Do not exec truncated interpreter path Sasha Levin
2019-10-18 22:09 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 06/21] iio: fix center temperature of bmc150-accel-core Sasha Levin
2019-10-18 22:09 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 07/21] perf map: Fix overlapped map handling Sasha Levin
2019-10-18 22:09 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 08/21] RDMA/iwcm: Fix a lock inversion issue Sasha Levin
2019-10-18 22:09 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 09/21] nfs: Fix nfsi->nrequests count error on nfs_inode_remove_request Sasha Levin
2019-10-18 22:09 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 10/21] fs: cifs: mute -Wunused-const-variable message Sasha Levin
2019-10-18 22:09 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 11/21] serial: mctrl_gpio: Check for NULL pointer Sasha Levin
2019-10-18 22:09 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 12/21] efi/cper: Fix endianness of PCIe class code Sasha Levin
2019-10-18 22:09 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2019-10-18 22:10 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 14/21] fs: ocfs2: fix possible null-pointer dereferences in ocfs2_xa_prepare_entry() Sasha Levin
2019-10-18 22:10 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 15/21] fs: ocfs2: fix a possible null-pointer dereference in ocfs2_info_scan_inode_alloc() Sasha Levin
2019-10-18 22:10 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 16/21] iio: adc: ad799x: fix probe error handling Sasha Levin
2019-10-18 22:10 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 17/21] iio: light: opt3001: fix mutex unlock race Sasha Levin
2019-10-18 22:10 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 18/21] MIPS: fw: sni: Fix out of bounds init of o32 stack Sasha Levin
2019-10-18 22:10 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 19/21] USB: usb-skeleton: fix use-after-free after driver unbind Sasha Levin
2019-10-18 22:10 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 20/21] NFSv4: Fix leak of clp->cl_acceptor string Sasha Levin
2019-10-18 22:10 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 21/21] tracing: Initialize iter->seq after zeroing in tracing_read_pipe() Sasha Levin
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