Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] efi/x86: Fix EFI memory map corruption with kexec

From: Dave Young
Date: Mon Jun 03 2024 - 21:24:03 EST


On Mon, 3 Jun 2024 at 23:33, Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 04:46:39PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 09:01:49AM -0500, Kalra, Ashish wrote:
> > > If we skip efi_arch_mem_reserve() (which should probably be anyway skipped
> > > for kexec case), then for kexec boot, EFI memmap is memremapped in the same
> > > virtual address as the first kernel and not the allocated memblock address.
> >
> > Are you saying that we should simply do
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> > index fdf07dd6f459..410cb0743289 100644
> > --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> > @@ -577,6 +577,9 @@ void __init efi_mem_reserve(phys_addr_t addr, u64 size)
> > if (WARN_ON_ONCE(efi_enabled(EFI_PARAVIRT)))
> > return;
> >
> > + if (kexec_in_progress)
> > + return;
> > +

kexec_in_progress is only for checking if this is in a reboot (kexec) code path.
But eif_mem_reserve is only called during the boot time so checking
kexec_in_progress is meaningless here.
current_kernel_is_booted_via_kexec != is_rebooting_with_kexec

The code change below in the patch looks good to me, but I'm not sure
what caused the memory corruption, it indeed worth some more digging,
maybe SEV/SNP related.
+ if (md.attribute & EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME)
+ return;

Thanks
Dave