From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757093Ab3HGDpf (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Aug 2013 23:45:35 -0400 Received: from mail-yh0-f50.google.com ([209.85.213.50]:60417 "EHLO mail-yh0-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757082Ab3HGDpa (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Aug 2013 23:45:30 -0400 From: Roy Franz To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, matt.fleming@intel.com, linux@arm.linux.org.uk Cc: leif.lindholm@linaro.org, dave.martin@arm.com, Roy Franz Subject: [PATCH 07/17] Enforce minimum alignment of 1 page on allocations. The efi_high_alloc() and efi_low_alloc() functions use the EFI_ALLOCATE_ADDRESS option to the EFI function allocate_pages(), which requires a minimum of page alignment, and rejects all other requests. Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 20:45:03 -0700 Message-Id: <1375847113-24884-8-git-send-email-roy.franz@linaro.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.10.4 In-Reply-To: <1375847113-24884-1-git-send-email-roy.franz@linaro.org> References: <1375847113-24884-1-git-send-email-roy.franz@linaro.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The existing code could fail to allocate depending on allocation size, as although repeated allocation attempts were made, none were guaranteed to be page aligned. Signed-off-by: Roy Franz --- drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c index cd7701f..8582650 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c @@ -105,6 +105,13 @@ static efi_status_t efi_high_alloc(efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg, if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) goto fail; + /* Enforce minimum alignment that EFI requires when requesting + * a specific address. We are doing page-based allocations, + * so we must be aligned to a page. + */ + if (align < EFI_PAGE_SIZE) + align = EFI_PAGE_SIZE; + nr_pages = round_up(size, EFI_PAGE_SIZE) / EFI_PAGE_SIZE; again: for (i = 0; i < map_size / desc_size; i++) { @@ -184,6 +191,13 @@ static efi_status_t efi_low_alloc(efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg, if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) goto fail; + /* Enforce minimum alignment that EFI requires when requesting + * a specific address. We are doing page-based allocations, + * so we must be aligned to a page. + */ + if (align < EFI_PAGE_SIZE) + align = EFI_PAGE_SIZE; + nr_pages = round_up(size, EFI_PAGE_SIZE) / EFI_PAGE_SIZE; for (i = 0; i < map_size / desc_size; i++) { efi_memory_desc_t *desc; -- 1.7.10.4