Reviewed-by: Jordan Justen <[email protected]>

On 2017-09-27 18:03:53, Jian J Wang wrote:
> QemuVideoDxe driver will link VBE SHIM into page 0. If NULL pointer
> detection is enabled, this driver will fail to load. NULL pointer detection
> bypassing code is added to prevent such problem during boot.
> 
> Please note that Windows 7 will try to access VBE SHIM during boot if it's
> installed, and then cause boot failure. This can be fixed by setting BIT7
> of PcdNullPointerDetectionPropertyMask to disable NULL pointer detection
> after EndOfDxe. As far as we know, there's no other OSs has such issue.
> 
> > According to Laszlo, remove the code disabling/enabling the NULL pointer
> > detection but just ignore the installing if it's enabled
> 
> Cc: Star Zeng <[email protected]>
> Cc: Eric Dong <[email protected]>
> Cc: Laszlo Ersek <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jiewen Yao <[email protected]>
> Cc: Michael Kinney <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jordan Justen <[email protected]>
> Cc: Ayellet Wolman <[email protected]>
> Suggested-by: Ayellet Wolman <[email protected]>
> Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
> Signed-off-by: Jian J Wang <[email protected]>
> ---
>  OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe/QemuVideoDxe.inf |  1 +
>  OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe/VbeShim.c        | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe/QemuVideoDxe.inf 
> b/OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe/QemuVideoDxe.inf
> index 577e07b0a8..ff68c99e96 100644
> --- a/OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe/QemuVideoDxe.inf
> +++ b/OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe/QemuVideoDxe.inf
> @@ -77,3 +77,4 @@
>  [Pcd]
>    gOptionRomPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdDriverSupportedEfiVersion
>    gUefiOvmfPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdOvmfHostBridgePciDevId
> +  gEfiMdeModulePkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdNullPointerDetectionPropertyMask
> diff --git a/OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe/VbeShim.c b/OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe/VbeShim.c
> index e45a08e887..8ba5522cde 100644
> --- a/OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe/VbeShim.c
> +++ b/OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe/VbeShim.c
> @@ -75,6 +75,20 @@ InstallVbeShim (
>    UINTN                Printed;
>    VBE_MODE_INFO        *VbeModeInfo;
>  
> +  if ((PcdGet8 (PcdNullPointerDetectionPropertyMask) & (BIT0|BIT7)) == BIT0) 
> {
> +    DEBUG ((
> +      DEBUG_WARN,
> +      "%a: page 0 protected, not installing VBE shim\n",
> +      __FUNCTION__
> +      ));
> +    DEBUG ((
> +      DEBUG_WARN,
> +      "%a: page 0 protection prevents Windows 7 from booting anyway\n",
> +      __FUNCTION__
> +      ));
> +    return;
> +  }
> +
>    Segment0 = 0x00000;
>    SegmentC = 0xC0000;
>    SegmentF = 0xF0000;
> -- 
> 2.14.1.windows.1
> 
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