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Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 11:48:03 -0500
From: "Kalra, Ashish" <ashish.kalra@....com>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com,
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 Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] efi/x86: Fix EFI memory map corruption with kexec

On 6/3/2024 10:31 AM, Mike Rapoport wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 04:46:39PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 09:01:49AM -0500, Kalra, Ashish wrote:
>>> If we skip efi_arch_mem_reserve() (which should probably be anyway skipped
>>> for kexec case), then for kexec boot, EFI memmap is memremapped in the same
>>> virtual address as the first kernel and not the allocated memblock address.
>> Are you saying that we should simply do
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
>> index fdf07dd6f459..410cb0743289 100644
>> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
>> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
>> @@ -577,6 +577,9 @@ void __init efi_mem_reserve(phys_addr_t addr, u64 size)
>>   	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(efi_enabled(EFI_PARAVIRT)))
>>   		return;
>>   
>> +	if (kexec_in_progress)
>> +		return;
>> +
>>   	if (!memblock_is_region_reserved(addr, size))
>>   		memblock_reserve(addr, size);
>>   
>> and skip that whole call?
> I think Ashish suggested rather
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> index fdf07dd6f459..eccc10ab15a4 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> @@ -580,6 +580,9 @@ void __init efi_mem_reserve(phys_addr_t addr, u64 size)
>   	if (!memblock_is_region_reserved(addr, size))
>   		memblock_reserve(addr, size);
>   
> +	if (kexec_in_progress)
> +		return;
> +
>   	/*
>   	 * Some architectures (x86) reserve all boot services ranges
>   	 * until efi_free_boot_services() because of buggy firmware
>   
Yes, something similar as above, as efi_mem_reserve() is used to reserve 
boot service memory and is not necessary for kexec boot.

So, Dave Young (dyoung@...hat.com) had suggested that we skip 
efi_arch_mem_reserve() for kexec by checking the set EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME 
attribute as below:

diff 
<https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Zl3HfiQ6oHdTdOdA@kernel.org/T/#iZ2e.:..:f4be03b8488665f56a1e5c6e6459f447352dfcf5.1717111180.git.ashish.kalra::40amd.com:1arch:x86:platform:efi:quirks.c> 
--git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c 
index f0cc00032751..6f398c59278a 100644 --- 
a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c @@ 
-255,15 +255,39 @@ void __init efi_arch_mem_reserve(phys_addr_t addr, 
u64 size)   	struct efi_memory_map_data data = { 0 };
  	struct efi_mem_range mr;
  	efi_memory_desc_t md;
- int num_entries; + int num_entries, ret;   	void *new;
  
- if (efi_mem_desc_lookup(addr, &md) || - md.type != 
EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA) { + /* + * efi_mem_reserve() is used to reserve 
boot service memory, eg. bgrt, + * but it is not neccasery for kexec, as 
there are no boot services in + * kexec reboot at all after the first 
kernel's ExitBootServices(). + * + * Therefore, skip efi_mem_reserve for 
kexec booting by checking the + * EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME attribute which 
indicates boot service memory + * ranges reserved by the first kernel 
using efi_mem_reserve and marked + * with EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME attribute. 
+ */ + + ret = efi_mem_desc_lookup(addr, &md); + if (ret) {   		pr_err("Failed to lookup EFI memory descriptor for %pa\n", &addr);
  		return;
  	}
  
+ if (md.type != EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA) { + pr_err("Skip reserving non 
EFI Boot Service Data memory for %pa\n", &addr); + return; + } + + /* 
Kexec copied the efi memmap from the first kernel, thus skip the case */ 
+ if (md.attribute & EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME) + return; +   	if (addr + size > md.phys_addr + (md.num_pages << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT)) {
  		pr_err("Region spans EFI memory descriptors, %pa\n", &addr);
  		return;
-- 
2.34.1

>> -- 
>> Regards/Gruss,
>>      Boris.
>>
>> https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette