Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] x86, kexec_file_load: Don't setup EFI info if EFI runtime is not enabled

From: Dave Young
Date: Thu Jan 24 2019 - 21:54:00 EST


On 01/18/19 at 07:13pm, Kairui Song wrote:
> Currently with "efi=noruntime" in kernel command line, calling
> kexec_file_load will raise below problem:
>
> [ 97.967067] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
> [ 97.967894] #PF error: [normal kernel read fault]
> ...
> [ 97.980456] Call Trace:
> [ 97.980724] efi_runtime_map_copy+0x28/0x30
> [ 97.981267] bzImage64_load+0x688/0x872
> [ 97.981794] arch_kexec_kernel_image_load+0x6d/0x70
> [ 97.982441] kimage_file_alloc_init+0x13e/0x220
> [ 97.983035] __x64_sys_kexec_file_load+0x144/0x290
> [ 97.983586] do_syscall_64+0x55/0x1a0
> [ 97.983962] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
>
> When efi runtime is not enabled, efi memmap is not mapped, so just skip
> EFI info setup.
>
> Suggested-by: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c
> index 2c007abd3d40..097f52fb02e3 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c
> @@ -167,6 +167,9 @@ setup_efi_state(struct boot_params *params, unsigned long params_load_addr,
> struct efi_info *current_ei = &boot_params.efi_info;
> struct efi_info *ei = &params->efi_info;
>
> + if (!efi_enabled(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES))
> + return 0;
> +
> if (!current_ei->efi_memmap_size)
> return 0;
>
> --
> 2.20.1
>

Patch 1/3 looks good to me, 2-3 should depend on Chao's early rsdp parsing according
to Boris.

Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks
Dave