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From: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
	 Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>,
	 Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	 Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	 "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@igalia.com>,
	 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,  Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	 x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
	kernel-team@meta.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 5/6] efi/runtime-wrappers: honour EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES in the non-blocking paths
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:01:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260612-efi_timeout-v2-5-f714bb016df6@debian.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260612-efi_timeout-v2-0-f714bb016df6@debian.org>

Three wrappers call firmware directly instead of going through
__efi_queue_work(), and none of them check whether runtime services are
still enabled: virt_efi_set_variable_nb(),
virt_efi_query_variable_info_nb() and virt_efi_reset_system(). Once a
hang has cleared EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES - or efi_recover_from_page_fault()
has cleared it on a firmware page fault - these paths still enter the
(possibly wedged) firmware, e.g. an EFI pstore write through the
non-blocking SetVariable() variant, in violation of UEFI's
non-reentrancy rules. reset_system() is reachable too: efi_reboot()
only gates it on the static efi_rt_services_supported() mask, which does
not track the runtime disable.

Check efi_enabled(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES) at the top of each before taking
efi_runtime_lock and calling into firmware.

Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
---
 drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c
index 8badf0419a148..842f72d44211f 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c
@@ -461,6 +461,9 @@ virt_efi_set_variable_nb(efi_char16_t *name, efi_guid_t *vendor, u32 attr,
 {
 	efi_status_t status;
 
+	if (!efi_enabled(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES))
+		return EFI_DEVICE_ERROR;
+
 	if (down_trylock(&efi_runtime_lock))
 		return EFI_NOT_READY;
 
@@ -500,6 +503,9 @@ virt_efi_query_variable_info_nb(u32 attr, u64 *storage_space,
 	if (efi.runtime_version < EFI_2_00_SYSTEM_TABLE_REVISION)
 		return EFI_UNSUPPORTED;
 
+	if (!efi_enabled(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES))
+		return EFI_DEVICE_ERROR;
+
 	if (down_trylock(&efi_runtime_lock))
 		return EFI_NOT_READY;
 
@@ -527,6 +533,11 @@ static void __nocfi
 virt_efi_reset_system(int reset_type, efi_status_t status,
 		      unsigned long data_size, efi_char16_t *data)
 {
+	if (!efi_enabled(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES)) {
+		pr_warn("EFI Runtime Services are disabled, not invoking reset_system()\n");
+		return;
+	}
+
 	if (down_trylock(&efi_runtime_lock)) {
 		pr_warn("failed to invoke the reset_system() runtime service:\n"
 			"could not get exclusive access to the firmware\n");

-- 
2.53.0-Meta


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-06-12 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-12 11:01 [PATCH v2 0/6] efi/runtime-wrappers: bound the wait for EFI runtime service calls Breno Leitao
2026-06-12 11:01 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] efi: fix stale reference to efi_recover_from_page_fault() Breno Leitao
2026-06-12 11:01 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] efi/runtime-wrappers: handle queue_work() failure with goto exit Breno Leitao
2026-06-12 11:01 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] efi/runtime-wrappers: check EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES before using efi_rts_work Breno Leitao
2026-06-12 11:01 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] efi/runtime-wrappers: bound the wait for EFI runtime service calls Breno Leitao
2026-06-12 11:01 ` Breno Leitao [this message]
2026-06-12 11:01 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] efi/runtime-wrappers: retire the worker if a wedged call ever returns Breno Leitao
2026-06-12 11:11   ` Ard Biesheuvel

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