Re: [PATCH v3] x86: efi: Turn off efi_enabled after setup on mixedfw/kernel

From: Matt Fleming
Date: Thu Oct 25 2012 - 09:20:20 EST


On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 10:00 -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
> When 32-bit EFI is used with 64-bit kernel (or vice versa), turn off
> efi_enabled once setup is done. Beyond setup, it is normally used to
> determine if runtime services are available and we will have none.
>
> This will resolve issues stemming from efivars modprobe panicking on a
> 32/64-bit setup, as well as some reboot issues on similar setups.
>
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45991
>
> Reported-by: Marko Kohtala <marko.kohtala@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Maxim Kammerer <mk@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx # 3.4 - 3.6
> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Running with this patch results in the following,

[ 3.486943] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 3.488455] WARNING: at /home/matt/src/kernels/linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:586 check_early_ioremap_leak+0x3b/0x50()
[ 3.490043] Hardware name: MacBook2,1
[ 3.491600] Debug warning: early ioremap leak of 1 areas detected.
[ 3.493156] Modules linked in:
[ 3.493973] usb 1-4: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd
[ 3.496340] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.7.0-rc1+ #26
[ 3.497949] Call Trace:
[ 3.499558] [<ffffffff81d022ab>] ? check_early_ioremap_leak+0x3b/0x50
[ 3.501217] [<ffffffff81032970>] warn_slowpath_common+0x85/0x9d
[ 3.502872] [<ffffffff81d02270>] ? early_ioremap_debug_setup+0x12/0x12
[ 3.504516] [<ffffffff81032a2b>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x48
[ 3.506161] [<ffffffff81cf89df>] ? mcheck_debugfs_init+0x3b/0x3b
[ 3.507790] [<ffffffff81d022ab>] check_early_ioremap_leak+0x3b/0x50
[ 3.509418] [<ffffffff8100023b>] do_one_initcall+0x7f/0x134
[ 3.511040] [<ffffffff8163cc3c>] kernel_init+0x10c/0x275
[ 3.512638] [<ffffffff81cef4c7>] ? loglevel+0x31/0x31
[ 3.514241] [<ffffffff8163cb30>] ? rest_init+0x74/0x74
[ 3.515824] [<ffffffff8165ca9c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[ 3.517393] [<ffffffff8163cb30>] ? rest_init+0x74/0x74
[ 3.518958] ---[ end trace afc7d1c216dac6e1 ]---
[ 3.520479] please boot with early_ioremap_debug and report the dmesg.

because we're now leaking the mapping from efi_memmap_init().

Maybe it should be handled like so?

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
index c9dcc18..029189d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ extern void efi_set_executable(efi_memory_desc_t *md, bool executable);
extern int efi_memblock_x86_reserve_range(void);
extern void efi_call_phys_prelog(void);
extern void efi_call_phys_epilog(void);
+extern void efi_unmap_memmap(void);

#ifndef CONFIG_EFI
/*
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index 392dae3..6fd7752 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -1043,6 +1043,7 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
*/
if (efi_enabled && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_64) != efi_64bit) {
pr_info("efi: Setup done, disabling due to 32/64-bit mismatch\n");
+ efi_unmap_memmap();
efi_enabled = 0;
}
#endif
diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
index 6e620f1..9bae3b7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ void __init efi_reserve_boot_services(void)
}
}

-static void __init efi_unmap_memmap(void)
+void __init efi_unmap_memmap(void)
{
if (memmap.map) {
early_iounmap(memmap.map, memmap.nr_map * memmap.desc_size);


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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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