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From: Marko Kohtala <marko.kohtala@gmail.com>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>, Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Marko Kohtala <marko.kohtala@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] efivars: prevent Oops if efi_enabled but no EFI runtime
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:47:30 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1339706851-10618-1-git-send-email-marko.kohtala@gmail.com> (raw)

Since v3.3-rc4-5-g1adbfa3, there has been an Oops in register_efivars
calling ops->get_next_variable and ending up at EIP 0 during module init.

I boot 32-bit x86 kernel from 64-bit EFI bootloader.

The efi_enabled is true, but runtime is not available. The functions
are NULL due to 32/64-bit mismatch between kernel and EFI.

Signed-off-by: Marko Kohtala <marko.kohtala@gmail.com>
---
I currently see this on v3.4.2.

I could not figure out how I'm supposed to detect lack of runtime, so
I ended up with this quick and overly precise check that all required
functions are available. There may be other drivers that need to take
this new condition into account, so maybe Olof wants to make a better
fix.

 drivers/firmware/efivars.c |   20 ++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
index 47408e8..612a097 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
@@ -1223,12 +1223,16 @@ efivars_init(void)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
-	ops.get_variable = efi.get_variable;
-	ops.set_variable = efi.set_variable;
-	ops.get_next_variable = efi.get_next_variable;
-	error = register_efivars(&__efivars, &ops, efi_kobj);
-	if (error)
-		goto err_put;
+	/* We may have efi_enabled for systab, but no runtime for variables.
+	 * Check the functions we need before proceeding. */
+	if (efi.get_variable && efi.set_variable && efi.get_next_variable) {
+		ops.get_variable = efi.get_variable;
+		ops.set_variable = efi.set_variable;
+		ops.get_next_variable = efi.get_next_variable;
+		error = register_efivars(&__efivars, &ops, efi_kobj);
+		if (error)
+			goto err_put;
+	}
 
 	/* Don't forget the systab entry */
 	error = sysfs_create_group(efi_kobj, &efi_subsys_attr_group);
@@ -1251,10 +1255,10 @@ err_put:
 static void __exit
 efivars_exit(void)
 {
-	if (efi_enabled) {
+	if (__efivars.kset)
 		unregister_efivars(&__efivars);
+	if (efi_kobj)
 		kobject_put(efi_kobj);
-	}
 }
 
 module_init(efivars_init);
-- 
1.7.10.4


             reply	other threads:[~2012-06-14 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-14 20:47 Marko Kohtala [this message]
2012-06-17 23:00 ` Olof Johansson
2012-06-18 20:06   ` Marko Kohtala
2012-06-27 21:35     ` [PATCH] efi: add efi_runtime state checking Olof Johansson
2012-06-27 21:52       ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-28 17:02         ` Olof Johansson
2012-08-15  0:51           ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-08-18 13:39             ` Matt Fleming
2012-06-18 20:22   ` [PATCH] efivars: prevent Oops if efi_enabled but no EFI runtime H. Peter Anvin

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