Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:22:22 +0100 | From | Matt Fleming <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: retry ExitBootServices() on failure |
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On Tue, 11 Jun, at 07:52:38AM, Matt Fleming wrote: > From: Zach Bobroff <zacharyb@ami.com> > > ExitBootServices is absolutely supposed to return a failure if any > ExitBootServices event handler changes the memory map. Basically the > get_map loop should run again if ExitBootServices returns an error the > first time. I would say it would be fair that if ExitBootServices gives > an error the second time then Linux would be fine in returning control > back to BIOS. > > The second change is the following line: > > again: > size += sizeof(*mem_map) * 2; > > Originally you were incrementing it by the size of one memory map entry. > The issue here is all related to the low_alloc routine you are using. > In this routine you are making allocations to get the memory map itself. > Doing this allocation or allocations can affect the memory map by more > than one record. > > [ mfleming - changelog, code style ] > Signed-off-by: Zach Bobroff <zacharyb@ami.com> > Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> > Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> > --- > arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++--- > 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
I've queued this patch up for v3.11 in my 'next' branch.
-- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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