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From: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
	Kweh Hock Leong <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com>,
	"Bryan O'Donoghue" <pure.logic@nexus-software.ie>,
	joeyli <jlee@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] efi/capsule: Make efi_capsule_pending() lockless
Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 14:36:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160504133656.GJ2839@codeblueprint.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160504122042.GB4074@pd.tnic>

On Wed, 04 May, at 02:20:42PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 12:46:05PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > But emergency_restart() is called after bust_spinlocks(0) which can
> > reset oops_in_progress, so can't even use that to solve the panic
> > case.
> 
> Blergh.
> 
> So I guess you need an explicit call efi_stop_capsules() somewhere in
> the reboot path and be done with it. No reboot notifiers, no bla bla.
> Just one big hammer which STFU the EFI.

But you can't block in the reboot path and you can't guarantee you'll
interrupt an in-progress EFI capsule update call that started before
you entered the reboot path.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-04 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-30 22:13 [PATCH] efi/capsule: Make efi_capsule_pending() lockless Matt Fleming
2016-05-03  9:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-05-03 14:12   ` Matt Fleming
2016-05-04  9:30     ` Borislav Petkov
2016-05-04 11:46       ` Matt Fleming
2016-05-04 12:20         ` Borislav Petkov
2016-05-04 13:36           ` Matt Fleming [this message]
2016-05-04 14:35           ` Matt Fleming
2016-05-05 14:27             ` Kweh, Hock Leong
2016-05-05 14:36               ` Matt Fleming
2016-05-05 14:55                 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-05-06  1:32               ` Bryan O'Donoghue

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