linux-kernel - [PATCH] efi/esrt: Cleanup bad memory map log messages

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Date:   Fri, 17 Mar 2017 19:06:45 +0000
From:   Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
To:     linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:     Daniel Drake <drake@...lessm.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
Subject: [PATCH] efi/esrt: Cleanup bad memory map log messages

From: Daniel Drake <drake@...lessm.com>

The Intel Compute Stick STCK1A8LFC and Weibu F3C platforms both
log 2 error messages during boot:

   efi: requested map not found.
   esrt: ESRT header is not in the memory map.

Searching the web, this seems to affect many other platforms too.
Since these messages are logged as errors, they appear on-screen during
the boot process even when using the "quiet" boot parameter used by
distros.

Demote the ESRT error to a warning so that it does not appear on-screen,
and delete the error logging from efi_mem_desc_lookup; both callsites
of that function log more specific messages upon failure.

Out of curiosity I looked closer at the Weibu F3C. There is no entry in
the UEFI-provided memory map which corresponds to the ESRT pointer, but
hacking the code to map it anyway, the ESRT does appear to be valid with
2 entries.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <drake@...lessm.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
Acked-by: Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
---
 drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c  | 1 -
 drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
index e7d404059b73..b372aad3b449 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
@@ -389,7 +389,6 @@ int __init efi_mem_desc_lookup(u64 phys_addr, efi_memory_desc_t *out_md)
 			return 0;
 		}
 	}
-	pr_err_once("requested map not found.\n");
 	return -ENOENT;
 }

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c
index 08b026864d4e..8554d7aec31c 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ void __init efi_esrt_init(void)

 	rc = efi_mem_desc_lookup(efi.esrt, &md);
 	if (rc < 0) {
-		pr_err("ESRT header is not in the memory map.\n");
+		pr_warn("ESRT header is not in the memory map.\n");
 		return;
 	}

-- 
2.7.4