Re: kexec regression since 4.9 caused by efi

Omar Sandoval
2017-04-03T23:54:34Z

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 10:50:48AM -0700, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:41:32PM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Mar, at 03:37:48PM, Dave Young wrote:
> > >
> > > Omar, could you try below patch? Looking at the efi_mem_desc_lookup, it is not
> > > correct to be used in efi_arch_mem_reserve, if it passed your test, I
> > > can rewrite patch log with more background and send it out:
> > >
> > > for_each_efi_memory_desc(md) {
> > > [snip]
> > > if (!(md->attribute & EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME) &&
> > > md->type != EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA &&
> > > md->type != EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_DATA) {
> > > continue;
> > > }
> > >
> > > In above code, it meant to get a md of EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME of either boot
> > > data or runtime data, this is wrong for efi_mem_reserve, because we are
> > > reserving boot data which has no EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME attribute at the
> > > running time. Just is happened to work and we did not capture the error.
> >
> > Wouldn't something like this be simpler?
> >
> > ---
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> > index 30031d5293c4..cdfe8c628959 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> > @@ -201,6 +201,10 @@ void __init efi_arch_mem_reserve(phys_addr_t addr, u64 size)
> > return;
> > }
> >
> > + /* No need to reserve regions that will never be freed. */
> > + if (md.attribute & EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME)
> > + return;
> > +
> > size += addr % EFI_PAGE_SIZE;
> > size = round_up(size, EFI_PAGE_SIZE);
> > addr = round_down(addr, EFI_PAGE_SIZE);
>
> This works for me.
>
> Reported-and-tested-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov-b10kYP2dOMg@public.gmane.org>

Is this going to go in for 4.11?