From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] efi/libstub/x86: fix an EFI server boot failure
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 10:12:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200125091247.GC3028@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKv+Gu9R40uywfPkq02AGtKAWqvq+63EEOrhGJf5_gY1xfHkNQ@mail.gmail.com>
* Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 20:17, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 20:15, Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> wrote:
> > >
> > > x86_64 EFI systems are unable to boot due to a typo in the recent commit.
> > >
> > > EFI config tables not found.
> > > -- System halted
> > >
> > > Fixes: 796eb8d26a57 ("efi/libstub/x86: Use const attribute for efi_is_64bit()")
> > > Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
> > > ---
> > > arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c | 2 +-
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c
> > > index 82e26d0ff075..287393d725f0 100644
> > > --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c
> > > @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ __attribute_const__ bool efi_is_64bit(void)
> > > {
> > > if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_EFI_MIXED))
> > > return efi_is64;
> > > - return IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X64_64);
> > > + return IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_64);
> > > }
> > >
> > > static efi_status_t
> >
> > Apologies for the breakage - your fix is obviously correct. But I did
> > test this code, so I am curious why I didn't see this problem. Are you
> > booting via GRUB or from the UEFI shell? Can you share your .config
> > please?
>
> Hmm, I guess it is simply the absence of CONFIG_EFI_MIXED=y ...
>
> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
>
> Ingo, Thomas, could you drop this into efi/core directly please? Thanks.
Sure, done!
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-25 9:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-22 19:14 [PATCH -next] efi/libstub/x86: fix an EFI server boot failure Qian Cai
2020-01-22 19:17 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-01-22 19:22 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-01-25 9:12 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2020-01-23 19:49 ` Qian Cai
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