linux-kernel - Re: kexec regression since 4.9 caused by efi

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Message-ID: <20170403235434.GA22520@vader.DHCP.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Mon, 3 Apr 2017 16:54:34 -0700
From:   Omar Sandoval <osandov@...ndov.com>
To:     Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
Cc:     Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com,
        kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kexec regression since 4.9 caused by efi

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 10:50:48AM -0700, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:41:32PM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Mar, at 03:37:48PM, Dave Young wrote:
> > > 
> > > Omar, could you try below patch? Looking at the efi_mem_desc_lookup, it is not
> > > correct to be used in efi_arch_mem_reserve, if it passed your test, I
> > > can rewrite patch log with more background and send it out:
> > > 
> > >         for_each_efi_memory_desc(md) {
> > > 		[snip]
> > >                 if (!(md->attribute & EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME) &&
> > >                     md->type != EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA &&
> > >                     md->type != EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_DATA) {
> > >                         continue;
> > >                 }
> > > 
> > > In above code, it meant to get a md of EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME of either boot
> > > data or runtime data, this is wrong for efi_mem_reserve, because we are
> > > reserving boot data which has no EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME attribute at the
> > > running time. Just is happened to work and we did not capture the error.
> > 
> > Wouldn't something like this be simpler?
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> > index 30031d5293c4..cdfe8c628959 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> > @@ -201,6 +201,10 @@ void __init efi_arch_mem_reserve(phys_addr_t addr, u64 size)
> >  		return;
> >  	}
> >  
> > +	/* No need to reserve regions that will never be freed. */
> > +	if (md.attribute & EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME)
> > +		return;
> > +
> >  	size += addr % EFI_PAGE_SIZE;
> >  	size = round_up(size, EFI_PAGE_SIZE);
> >  	addr = round_down(addr, EFI_PAGE_SIZE);
> 
> This works for me.
> 
> Reported-and-tested-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@...com>

Is this going to go in for 4.11?