Commit-ID:  f72075c9eda8a43aeea2f9dbb8d187afd4a76f0b
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/f72075c9eda8a43aeea2f9dbb8d187afd4a76f0b
Author:     Alex Thorlton <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 11:41:59 +0100
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 13:55:36 +0200

x86/platform/uv: Skip UV runtime services mapping in the efi_runtime_disabled 
case

This problem has actually been in the UV code for a while, but we didn't
catch it until recently, because we had been relying on EFI_OLD_MEMMAP
to allow our systems to boot for a period of time.  We noticed the issue
when trying to kexec a recent community kernel, where we hit this NULL
pointer dereference in efi_sync_low_kernel_mappings():

 [    0.337515] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 
0000000000000880
 [    0.346276] IP: [<ffffffff8105df8d>] efi_sync_low_kernel_mappings+0x5d/0x1b0

The problem doesn't show up with EFI_OLD_MEMMAP because we skip the
chunk of setup_efi_state() that sets the efi_loader_signature for the
kexec'd kernel.  When the kexec'd kernel boots, it won't set EFI_BOOT in
setup_arch, so we completely avoid the bug.

We always kexec with noefi on the command line, so this shouldn't be an
issue, but since we're not actually checking for efi_runtime_disabled in
uv_bios_init(), we end up trying to do EFI runtime callbacks when we
shouldn't be. This patch just adds a check for efi_runtime_disabled in
uv_bios_init() so that we don't map in uv_systab when runtime_disabled ==
true.

Signed-off-by: Alex Thorlton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]> # v4.7
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Travis <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Russ Anderson <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
 arch/x86/platform/uv/bios_uv.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/uv/bios_uv.c b/arch/x86/platform/uv/bios_uv.c
index 66b2166..0df8a03 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/uv/bios_uv.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/uv/bios_uv.c
@@ -187,7 +187,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(uv_bios_set_legacy_vga_target);
 void uv_bios_init(void)
 {
        uv_systab = NULL;
-       if ((efi.uv_systab == EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR) || !efi.uv_systab) {
+       if ((efi.uv_systab == EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR) ||
+           !efi.uv_systab || efi_runtime_disabled()) {
                pr_crit("UV: UVsystab: missing\n");
                return;
        }

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