Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: Make "noefi" really disable EFI runtime serivces

[Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>]

Hi Matt,

(2013/02/21 5:36), Matt Fleming wrote:
> From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
> 
> commit 1de63d60cd5b ("efi: Clear EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES rather than
> EFI_BOOT by "noefi" boot parameter") attempted to make "noefi" true to
> its documentation and disable EFI runtime services to prevent the
> bricking bug described in commit e0094244e41c ("samsung-laptop:
> Disable on EFI hardware"). However, it's not possible to clear
> EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES from an early param function because
> EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES is set in efi_init() *after* parse_early_param().
> 
> This resulted in "noefi" effectively becoming a no-op and no longer
> providing users with a way to disable EFI, which is bad for those
> users that have buggy machines.

Sorry, my patch was imperfect. This patch looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>

Thanks,
Satoru

> 
> Reported-by: Walt Nelson Jr <walt0924@gmail.com>
> Cc: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
> index 928bf83..e2cd38f 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
> @@ -85,9 +85,10 @@ int efi_enabled(int facility)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(efi_enabled);
>  
> +static bool disable_runtime = false;
>  static int __init setup_noefi(char *arg)
>  {
> -	clear_bit(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES, &x86_efi_facility);
> +	disable_runtime = true;
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  early_param("noefi", setup_noefi);
> @@ -734,7 +735,7 @@ void __init efi_init(void)
>  	if (!efi_is_native())
>  		pr_info("No EFI runtime due to 32/64-bit mismatch with kernel\n");
>  	else {
> -		if (efi_runtime_init())
> +		if (disable_runtime || efi_runtime_init())
>  			return;
>  		set_bit(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES, &x86_efi_facility);
>  	}
>