linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes for 3.9

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Date:	Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:54:45 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
CC:	Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@...ula.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>,
	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes for 3.9

On 04/25/2013 03:53 PM, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Matthew Garrett
> <matthew.garrett@...ula.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 15:20 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:44 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> -       if (!sys_table->runtime->query_variable_info)
>>>> +       if (sys_table->runtime->hdr.revision < EFI_2_00_SYSTEM_TABLE_REVISION)
>>>>                 return EFI_UNSUPPORTED;
>>>
>>> Is a EFI 2.00 system table *guaranteed* to have that
>>> "query_variable_info" function? The above adds the version check, but
>>> removes the check for a NULL pointer.
>>
>> As far as the spec's concerned, yes. As far as reality's concerned - if
>> anything doesn't provide it, we're already crashing when
>> efi_virt_query_variable_info() gets called. Nobody's complained so far.
> 
> Well, I don't know if this is related, but commit e971318bbed6 broke
> the google EFI SMI driver with
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
> IP: [<ffffffff814a7245>] variable_is_present+0x55/0x170
> Call Trace:
> [<ffffffff814a9936>] register_efivars+0x106/0x370
> [<ffffffff818ff430>] ? firmware_map_add_early+0xb1/0xb1
> [<ffffffff818ff6dd>] gsmi_init+0x2ad/0x3da
> [<ffffffff8100020f>] do_one_initcall+0x3f/0x170
> ...
> 

I don't know either.  Could you test this patch and see if it does anything?

	-hpa

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