linux-kernel - [PATCH] Skip UV runtime services mapping in the efi_runtime

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Date:	Tue, 26 Jul 2016 17:38:33 -0500
From:	Alex Thorlton <athorlton@....com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Alex Thorlton <athorlton@....com>, Russ Anderson <rja@....com>,
	Mike Travis <travis@....com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Skip UV runtime services mapping in the efi_runtime_disabled case

This problem has actually been in the UV code for a while, but we didn't
catch it until recently, because we had been relying on EFI_OLD_MEMMAP
to allow our systems to boot for a period of time.  We noticed the issue
when trying to kexec a recent community kernel, where we hit this NULL
pointer dereference in efi_sync_low_kernel_mappings:

[    0.337515] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000880
[    0.346276] IP: [<ffffffff8105df8d>] efi_sync_low_kernel_mappings+0x5d/0x1b0

The problem doesn't show up with EFI_OLD_MEMMAP because we skip the
chunk of setup_efi_state that sets the efi_loader_signature for the
kexec'd kernel.  When the kexec'd kernel boots, it won't set EFI_BOOT in
setup_arch, so we completely avoid the bug.

We always kexec with noefi on the command line, so this shouldn't be an
issue, but since we're not actually checking for efi_runtime_disabled in
uv_bios_init, we end up trying to do EFI runtime callbacks when we
shouldn't be. This patch just adds a check for efi_runtime_disabled in
uv_bios_init so that we don't map in uv_systab when runtime_disabled ==
true.

Signed-off-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@....com>
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@....com>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@....com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: x86@...nel.org
---
 arch/x86/platform/uv/bios_uv.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/uv/bios_uv.c b/arch/x86/platform/uv/bios_uv.c
index 66b2166..0df8a03 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/uv/bios_uv.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/uv/bios_uv.c
@@ -187,7 +187,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(uv_bios_set_legacy_vga_target);
 void uv_bios_init(void)
 {
 	uv_systab = NULL;
-	if ((efi.uv_systab == EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR) || !efi.uv_systab) {
+	if ((efi.uv_systab == EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR) ||
+	    !efi.uv_systab || efi_runtime_disabled()) {
 		pr_crit("UV: UVsystab: missing\n");
 		return;
 	}
-- 
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