Re: [PATCH 1/2] efi/x86: Move efi stub globals from .bss to .data

Dave Young
2020-04-08T07:43:34Z

On 04/06/20 at 02:06pm, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> Commit
>
> 3ee372ccce4d ("x86/boot/compressed/64: Remove .bss/.pgtable from
> bzImage")
>
> removed the .bss section from the bzImage.
>
> However, while a PE loader is required to zero-initialize the .bss
> section before calling the PE entry point, the EFI handover protocol
> does not currently document any requirement that .bss be initialized by
> the bootloader prior to calling the handover entry.
>
> When systemd-boot is used to boot a unified kernel image [1], the image
> is constructed by embedding the bzImage as a .linux section in a PE
> executable that contains a small stub loader from systemd together with
> additional sections and potentially an initrd. As the .bss section
> within the bzImage is no longer explicitly present as part of the file,
> it is not initialized before calling the EFI handover entry.
> Furthermore, as the size of the embedded .linux section is only the size
> of the bzImage file itself, the .bss section's memory may not even have
> been allocated.

I did not follow up the old report, maybe I missed something. But not
sure why only systemd-boot is mentioned here. I also have similar issue
with early efi failure. With these two patches applied, it works well
then.

BTW, I use Fedora 31 + Grub2

>
> In particular, this can result in efi_disable_pci_dma being true even
> when it was not specified via the command line or configuration option,
> which in turn causes crashes while booting on some systems.
>
> To avoid issues, place all EFI stub global variables into the .data
> section instead of .bss. As of this writing, only boolean flags for a
> few command line arguments and the sys_table pointer were in .bss and
> will now move into the .data section.
>
> [1] https://systemd.io/BOOT_LOADER_SPECIFICATION/#type-2-efi-unified-kernel-images
>
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita-FrUbXkNCsVf2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>
> Reported-by: Sergey Shatunov <me-fHUSW+XspFU@public.gmane.org>
> Fixes: 3ee372ccce4d ("x86/boot/compressed/64: Remove .bss/.pgtable from bzImage")
> ---
> drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h | 2 +-
> drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h
> index cc90a748bcf0..67d26949fd26 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h
> @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
> #define EFI_ALLOC_ALIGN EFI_PAGE_SIZE
> #endif
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_ARM
> +#if defined(CONFIG_ARM) || defined(CONFIG_X86)
> #define __efistub_global __section(.data)
> #else
> #define __efistub_global
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c
> index 8d3a707789de..e7af6d2eddbf 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c
> @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
> /* Maximum physical address for 64-bit kernel with 4-level paging */
> #define MAXMEM_X86_64_4LEVEL (1ull << 46)
>
> -static efi_system_table_t *sys_table;
> +static efi_system_table_t *sys_table __efistub_global;
> extern const bool efi_is64;
> extern u32 image_offset;
>
> --
> 2.24.1
>

Thanks
Dave