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From: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
To: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>, kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: kexec/i386: fix erroneous memory descriptor message
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:47:15 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140327054715.GA20847@dhcp-16-126.nay.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5333AEEB.4090100@suse.de>

On 03/26/14 at 09:54pm, Tony Jones wrote:
> On non-EFI systems, efi_info section of boot_params is zero filled resulting 
> in an erroneous message from kexec regarding "efi memory descriptor" version.
> 
> Caused by commit: e1ffc9e9a0769e1f54185003102e9bec428b84e8 "Passing efi related 
> data via setup_data"
> 
> # od -j 448 -N 32 -v -x /sys/kernel/boot_params/data 
> 0000700 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000720 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000740
> 
> # kexec -l --reuse-cmdline --initrd=/boot/initrd-`uname -r` /boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r`
> efi memory descriptor version 0 is not supported!
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
> 
> ---
>  kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c |   14 +++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c
> +++ b/kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c
> @@ -687,17 +687,25 @@ static void setup_efi_info(struct kexec_
>  	ret = get_bootparam(&real_mode->efi_info, offset, 32);
>  	if (ret)
>  		return;
> +	if (((struct efi_info *)real_mode->efi_info)->efi_memmap_size == 0)
> +		/* zero filled efi_info */
> +		goto out;
>  	desc_version = get_efi_mem_desc_version(real_mode);
>  	if (desc_version != 1) {
>  		fprintf(stderr,
>  			"efi memory descriptor version %d is not supported!\n",
>  			desc_version);
> -		memset(&real_mode->efi_info, 0, 32);
> -		return;
> +		goto out;
>  	}
>  	ret = setup_efi_data(info, real_mode);
>  	if (ret)
> -		memset(&real_mode->efi_info, 0, 32);
> +		goto out;
> +
> +	return;
> +
> +out:
> +	memset(&real_mode->efi_info, 0, 32);
> +	return;
>  }
>  
>  void setup_linux_system_parameters(struct kexec_info *info,

Good catch, thanks.

Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-27  5:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-27  4:54 PATCH: kexec/i386: fix erroneous memory descriptor message Tony Jones
2014-03-27  5:47 ` Dave Young [this message]
2014-03-28 16:44   ` Simon Horman

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