Currently with "efi=noruntime" in kernel command line, calling kexec_file_load will raise below problem: [ 97.967067] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 [ 97.967894] #PF error: [normal kernel read fault] ... [ 97.980456] Call Trace: [ 97.980724] efi_runtime_map_copy+0x28/0x30 [ 97.981267] bzImage64_load+0x688/0x872 [ 97.981794] arch_kexec_kernel_image_load+0x6d/0x70 [ 97.982441] kimage_file_alloc_init+0x13e/0x220 [ 97.983035] __x64_sys_kexec_file_load+0x144/0x290 [ 97.983586] do_syscall_64+0x55/0x1a0 [ 97.983962] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 When efi runtime is not enabled, efi memmap is not mapped, so just skip EFI info setup. Suggested-by: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c index 2c007abd3d40..097f52fb02e3 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kexec-bzimage64.c @@ -167,6 +167,9 @@ setup_efi_state(struct boot_params *params, unsigned long params_load_addr, struct efi_info *current_ei = &boot_params.efi_info; struct efi_info *ei = ¶ms->efi_info; + if (!efi_enabled(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES)) + return 0; + if (!current_ei->efi_memmap_size) return 0; -- 2.20.1 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec