linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] EFI fix

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Message-ID: <20180713195702.GA22962@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 13 Jul 2018 21:57:02 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
Subject: [GIT PULL] EFI fix

Linus,

Please pull the latest efi-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git efi-urgent-for-linus

   # HEAD: e296701800f30d260a66f8aa1971b5b1bc3d2f81 efi/x86: Fix mixed mode reboot loop by removing pointless call to PciIo->Attributes()

Fix a UEFI mixed mode (64-bit kernel on 32-bit UEFI) reboot loop regression.

 Thanks,

	Ingo

------------------>
Ard Biesheuvel (1):
      efi/x86: Fix mixed mode reboot loop by removing pointless call to PciIo->Attributes()


 arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c | 12 +++---------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c
index e57665b4ba1c..e98522ea6f09 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c
@@ -114,18 +114,12 @@ __setup_efi_pci(efi_pci_io_protocol_t *pci, struct pci_setup_rom **__rom)
 	struct pci_setup_rom *rom = NULL;
 	efi_status_t status;
 	unsigned long size;
-	uint64_t attributes, romsize;
+	uint64_t romsize;
 	void *romimage;
 
-	status = efi_call_proto(efi_pci_io_protocol, attributes, pci,
-				EfiPciIoAttributeOperationGet, 0ULL,
-				&attributes);
-	if (status != EFI_SUCCESS)
-		return status;
-
 	/*
-	 * Some firmware images contain EFI function pointers at the place where the
-	 * romimage and romsize fields are supposed to be. Typically the EFI
+	 * Some firmware images contain EFI function pointers at the place where
+	 * the romimage and romsize fields are supposed to be. Typically the EFI
 	 * code is mapped at high addresses, translating to an unrealistically
 	 * large romsize. The UEFI spec limits the size of option ROMs to 16
 	 * MiB so we reject any ROMs over 16 MiB in size to catch this.