Patch "x86/platform/uv: Skip UV runtime services mapping in the efi_runtime_disabled case" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/platform/uv: Skip UV runtime services mapping in the efi_runtime_disabled case

to the 4.7-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86-platform-uv-skip-uv-runtime-services-mapping-in-the-efi_runtime_disabled-case.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From f72075c9eda8a43aeea2f9dbb8d187afd4a76f0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 11:41:59 +0100
Subject: x86/platform/uv: Skip UV runtime services mapping in the efi_runtime_disabled case

From: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>

commit f72075c9eda8a43aeea2f9dbb8d187afd4a76f0b upstream.

This problem has actually been in the UV code for a while, but we didn't
catch it until recently, because we had been relying on EFI_OLD_MEMMAP
to allow our systems to boot for a period of time.  We noticed the issue
when trying to kexec a recent community kernel, where we hit this NULL
pointer dereference in efi_sync_low_kernel_mappings():

 [    0.337515] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000880
 [    0.346276] IP: [<ffffffff8105df8d>] efi_sync_low_kernel_mappings+0x5d/0x1b0

The problem doesn't show up with EFI_OLD_MEMMAP because we skip the
chunk of setup_efi_state() that sets the efi_loader_signature for the
kexec'd kernel.  When the kexec'd kernel boots, it won't set EFI_BOOT in
setup_arch, so we completely avoid the bug.

We always kexec with noefi on the command line, so this shouldn't be an
issue, but since we're not actually checking for efi_runtime_disabled in
uv_bios_init(), we end up trying to do EFI runtime callbacks when we
shouldn't be. This patch just adds a check for efi_runtime_disabled in
uv_bios_init() so that we don't map in uv_systab when runtime_disabled ==
true.

Signed-off-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470912120-22831-2-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/platform/uv/bios_uv.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/platform/uv/bios_uv.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/uv/bios_uv.c
@@ -188,7 +188,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(uv_bios_set_legacy_vga
 void uv_bios_init(void)
 {
 	uv_systab = NULL;
-	if ((efi.uv_systab == EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR) || !efi.uv_systab) {
+	if ((efi.uv_systab == EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR) ||
+	    !efi.uv_systab || efi_runtime_disabled()) {
 		pr_crit("UV: UVsystab: missing\n");
 		return;
 	}


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from athorlton@sgi.com are

queue-4.7/x86-platform-uv-skip-uv-runtime-services-mapping-in-the-efi_runtime_disabled-case.patch