[PATCH] x86/efi: Apply EFI Memory Attributes after kexec

Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2024-11-11T21:45:54Z

Kexec bypasses EFI's switch to virtual mode. In exchange, it has its own
routine, kexec_enter_virtual_mode(), that replays the mappings made by
the original kernel. Unfortunately, the function fails to reinstate
EFI's memory attributes and runtime memory protections, which would've
otherwise been set after entering virtual mode. Remediate this by
calling efi_runtime_update_mappings() from it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 18141e89a76c ("x86/efi: Add support for EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE")
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenz@amazon.com>

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Notes:
- I tested the Memory Attributes path using QEMU/OVMF.

- Although care is taken to make sure the memory backing the EFI Memory
Attributes table is preserved during runtime and reachable after kexec
(see efi_memattr_init()). I don't see the same happening for the EFI
properties table. Maybe it's just unnecessary as there's an assumption
that the table will fall in memory preserved during runtime? Or for
another reason? Otherwise, we'd need to make sure it isn't possible to
set EFI_NX_PE_DATA on kexec.

arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
index 88a96816de9a..b9b17892c495 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
@@ -784,6 +784,7 @@ static void __init kexec_enter_virtual_mode(void)

efi_sync_low_kernel_mappings();
efi_native_runtime_setup();
+ efi_runtime_update_mappings();
#endif
}

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