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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] x86/efi: Disable runtime services on kexec kernel if booted with efi=old_map
Hi Sai,
On 05/16/17 at 06:14pm, Sai Praneeth Prakhya wrote:
> From: Sai Praneeth <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
>
> Booting kexec kernel with "efi=old_map" in kernel command line hits
> kernel panic as shown below.
>
> [0.001000] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff88007fe78070
> [0.001000] IP: virt_efi_set_variable.part.7+0x63/0x1b0
> [0.001000] PGD 7ea28067
> [0.001000] PUD 7ea2b067
> [0.001000] PMD 7ea2d067
> [0.001000] PTE 0
> [0.001000]
> [0.001000] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
> [0.001000] Modules linked in:
> [0.001000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.11.0-rc2-yocto-standard+ #229
> [0.001000] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
> [0.001000] task: ffffffff82022500 task.stack: ffffffff82000000
> [0.001000] RIP: 0010:virt_efi_set_variable.part.7+0x63/0x1b0
> [0.001000] RSP: 0000:ffffffff82003dc0 EFLAGS: 00010246
> [0.001000] RAX: ffff88007fe78018 RBX: ffffffff82050300 RCX: 0000000000000007
> [0.001000] RDX: ffffffff82003e50 RSI: ffffffff82050300 RDI: ffffffff82050300
> [0.001000] RBP: ffffffff82003e08 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
> [0.001000] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff82003e50
> [0.001000] R13: 0000000000000007 R14: 0000000000000246 R15: 0000000000000000
> [0.001000] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88007fa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [0.001000] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [0.001000] CR2: ffff88007fe78070 CR3: 000000007da1d000 CR4: 00000000000006b0
> [0.001000] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> [0.001000] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> [0.001000] Call Trace:
> [0.001000] virt_efi_set_variable+0x5d/0x70
> [0.001000] efi_delete_dummy_variable+0x7a/0x80
> [0.001000] efi_enter_virtual_mode+0x3f6/0x4a7
> [0.001000] start_kernel+0x375/0x400
> [0.001000] x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c
> [0.001000] x86_64_start_kernel+0x168/0x176
> [0.001000] start_cpu+0x14/0x14
> [0.001000] Code: 04 b0 84 ff 80 3d c5 56 b3 00 00 4c 8b 44 24 08 75
> 6b 9c 41 5e 48 8b 05 9c 78 99 00 4d 89 c1 48 89 de 4d 89 f8 44 89 e9 4c
> 89 e2 <48> 8b 40 58 48 8b 78 58 e8 b0 2d 88 ff 48 c7 c6 b6 1d f4 81 4c
> [0.001000] RIP: virt_efi_set_variable.part.7+0x63/0x1b0 RSP: ffffffff82003dc0
> [0.001000] CR2: ffff88007fe78070
> [0.001000] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
> [0.001000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
> [0.001000] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
>
> [efi=old_map was never intended to work with kexec. The problem with
> using efi=old_map is that the virtual addresses are assigned from the
> memory region used by other kernel mappings; vmalloc() space.
> Potentially there could be collisions when booting kexec if something
> else is mapped at the virtual address we allocated for runtime service
> regions in the initial boot] - Matt Fleming
>
> Since kexec was never intended to work with efi=old_map, disable
> runtime services in kexec if booted with efi=old_map, so that we don't
> panic.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> Cc: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri@intel.com>
> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> Cc: Ravi Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
> Cc: Lee Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
>
> Changes since v1:
> Don't fix the panic, because this was never intended to work.
> ---
> arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
> index 87835c97611f..627b7b86f369 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
> @@ -827,9 +827,11 @@ static void __init kexec_enter_virtual_mode(void)
>
> /*
> * We don't do virtual mode, since we don't do runtime services, on
> - * non-native EFI
> + * non-native EFI. With efi=old_map, we don't do runtime services in
> + * kexec kernel because in the initial boot something else might
> + * have been mapped at these virtual addresses.
> */
> - if (!efi_is_native()) {
> + if (!efi_is_native() || efi_enabled(EFI_OLD_MEMMAP)) {
> efi_memmap_unmap();
> clear_bit(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES, &efi.flags);
> return;
> --
> 2.1.4
>

Suppose it has passed the test on your hardware:
Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>

Thanks
Dave

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