linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] efi: efi_mem_reserve(): don't reserve through memblock after mm

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Message-Id: <20161221182846.2968-2-nicstange@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 21 Dec 2016 19:28:46 +0100
From:   Nicolai Stange <nicstange@...il.com>
To:     Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
Cc:     Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Nicolai Stange <nicstange@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] efi: efi_mem_reserve(): don't reserve through memblock after mm_init()

Before invoking the arch specific handler, efi_mem_reserve() reserves
the given memory region through memblock.

efi_mem_reserve() can get called after mm_init() though -- through
efi_bgrt_init(), for example. After mm_init(), memblock is dead and should
not be used anymore.

Let efi_mem_reserve() check whether memblock is dead and not do the
reservation if so. Emit a warning from the generic efi_arch mem_reserve()
in this case: if the architecture doesn't provide any other means of
registering the region as reserved, the operation would be a nop.

Fixes: 4bc9f92e64c8 ("x86/efi-bgrt: Use efi_mem_reserve() to avoid copying image data")
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@...il.com>
---
 drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
index 92914801e388..12b2e3a6d73f 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
@@ -403,7 +403,10 @@ u64 __init efi_mem_desc_end(efi_memory_desc_t *md)
 	return end;
 }
 
-void __init __weak efi_arch_mem_reserve(phys_addr_t addr, u64 size) {}
+void __init __weak efi_arch_mem_reserve(phys_addr_t addr, u64 size)
+{
+	WARN(slab_is_available(), "efi_mem_reserve() has no effect");
+}
 
 /**
  * efi_mem_reserve - Reserve an EFI memory region
@@ -419,7 +422,7 @@ void __init __weak efi_arch_mem_reserve(phys_addr_t addr, u64 size) {}
  */
 void __init efi_mem_reserve(phys_addr_t addr, u64 size)
 {
-	if (!memblock_is_region_reserved(addr, size))
+	if (slab_is_available() && !memblock_is_region_reserved(addr, size))
 		memblock_reserve(addr, size);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.11.0