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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] efi: Make 'efi_enabled' a function to query EFI facilities
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On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 04:16 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 21:12 +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
> [...]
> > From 92e73f936e40a8c6562e47425d434a4e62d2b8e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
> > Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:42:35 +0000
> > Subject: [PATCH] efi: Make 'efi_enabled' a function to query EFI facilities
> >
> > Originally 'efi_enabled' indicated whether a kernel was booted from
> > EFI firmware. Over time its semantics have changed, and it now
> > indicates whether or not we are booted on an EFI machine with
> > bit-native firmware, e.g. 64-bit kernel with 64-bit firmware.
> >
> > The immediate motivation for this patch is the bug report at,
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557
> >
> > which details how running a platform driver on an EFI machine that is
> > designed to run under BIOS can cause the machine to become
> > bricked. Also, the following report,
> >
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121
> >
> > details how running said driver can also cause Machine Check
> > Exceptions. Drivers need a new means of detecting whether they're
> > running on an EFI machine, as sadly the expression,
> >
> > if (!efi_enabled)
> >
> > hasn't been a sufficient condition for quite some time.
> [...]
>
> This patch maps the old efi_enabled flag to efi_enabled(EFI_BOOT). Your
> second patch adds a test for efi_enabled(EFI_BOOT) to the samsung-laptop
> driver. So the samsung-laptop driver could be fixed by adding a check
> for the old flag; it doesn't depend on the addition of new flags at all.
> The changes elsewhere may well be important, but the cited motivation
> here just doesn't make sense.

If we instead check for the old flag then the samsung-laptop driver
would run if booting a 32-bit kernel with 64-bit EFI firmware, or vice
versa, because efi_enabled == 0 in that case.

It's not sufficient to just check the old flag, the samsung-laptop
driver really can't be allowed to run at all if booting from EFI, and
the old flag doesn't provide us with that guarantee.

--
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center



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