On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 02:17 +0800, Lingzhu Xiang wrote:
> Comparing with the immediately previous one won't detect larger loop
> like how The IBM x3100 M4 in question was looping as below.
>
> (There is some log loss; probably too much data for serial.)
> [ 9.783119] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/firmware/efi/vars/MemoryTypeInformation-4c19049f-4137-4dd3-9c10-8b97a83ffdfa'
> [ 9.852017] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/firmware/efi/vars/Boot0003-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c'
Ah, thanks. I misunderstood the bug.
How about something like this? We're just going to have to suck it up
and iterate the entire list. This could be made more optimal, but this
isn't a fast path anyway, so I'm not sure it's worth optimising
immediately.
---
>From c8b6c9c175f4459197e2a13f29a2e4125372d771 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 11:59:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH v2] efivars: Handle duplicate names from get_next_variable()
Some firmware exhibits a bug where the same VariableName and
VendorGuid values are returned on multiple invocations of
GetNextVariableName(). See,
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47631
As a consequence of such a bug, Andre reports hitting the following
WARN_ON() in the sysfs code after updating the BIOS on his, "Gigabyte
Technology Co., Ltd. To be filled by O.E.M./Z77X-UD3H, BIOS F19e
11/21/2012)" machine,
[ 0.581554] EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17
[ 0.584914] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 0.585639] WARNING: at /home/andre/linux/fs/sysfs/dir.c:536 sysfs_add_one+0xd4/0x100()
[ 0.586381] Hardware name: To be filled by O.E.M.
[ 0.587123] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/firmware/efi/vars/SbAslBufferPtrVar-01f33c25-764d-43ea-aeea-6b5a41f3f3e8'
[ 0.588694] Modules linked in:
[ 0.589484] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.8.0+ #7
[ 0.590280] Call Trace:
[ 0.591066] [<ffffffff81208954>] ? sysfs_add_one+0xd4/0x100
[ 0.591861] [<ffffffff810587bf>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
[ 0.592650] [<ffffffff810588bc>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4c/0x50
[ 0.593429] [<ffffffff8134dd85>] ? strlcat+0x65/0x80
[ 0.594203] [<ffffffff81208954>] sysfs_add_one+0xd4/0x100
[ 0.594979] [<ffffffff81208b78>] create_dir+0x78/0xd0
[ 0.595753] [<ffffffff81208ec6>] sysfs_create_dir+0x86/0xe0
[ 0.596532] [<ffffffff81347e4c>] kobject_add_internal+0x9c/0x220
[ 0.597310] [<ffffffff81348307>] kobject_init_and_add+0x67/0x90
[ 0.598083] [<ffffffff81584a71>] ? efivar_create_sysfs_entry+0x61/0x1c0
[ 0.598859] [<ffffffff81584b2b>] efivar_create_sysfs_entry+0x11b/0x1c0
[ 0.599631] [<ffffffff8158517e>] register_efivars+0xde/0x420
[ 0.600395] [<ffffffff81d430a7>] ? edd_init+0x2f5/0x2f5
[ 0.601150] [<ffffffff81d4315f>] efivars_init+0xb8/0x104
[ 0.601903] [<ffffffff8100215a>] do_one_initcall+0x12a/0x180
[ 0.602659] [<ffffffff81d05d80>] kernel_init_freeable+0x13e/0x1c6
[ 0.603418] [<ffffffff81d05586>] ? loglevel+0x31/0x31
[ 0.604183] [<ffffffff816a6530>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
[ 0.604936] [<ffffffff816a653e>] kernel_init+0xe/0xf0
[ 0.605681] [<ffffffff816ce7ec>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[ 0.606414] [<ffffffff816a6530>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
[ 0.607143] ---[ end trace 1609741ab737eb29 ]---
There's not much we can do to work around and keep traversing the
variable list once we hit this firmware bug. Our only solution is to
terminate the loop because, as Lingzhu reports, some machines get
stuck when they encounter duplicate names,
> I had an IBM System x3100 M4 and x3850 X5 on which kernel would
> get stuck in infinite loop creating duplicate sysfs files because,
> for some reason, there are several duplicate boot entries in nvram
> getting GetNextVariableName into a circle of iteration (with
> period > 2).
Reported-by: Andre Heider <a.heider@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: iterate the entire list when checking for duplicates.
drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
index bea32d1..d1656e3 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
@@ -2005,6 +2005,20 @@ int register_efivars(struct efivars *efivars,
&vendor_guid);
switch (status) {
case EFI_SUCCESS:
+ /*
+ * Some firmware implementations return the
+ * same variable name on multiple calls to
+ * get_next_variable(). Terminate the loop
+ * immediately as there is no guarantee that
+ * we'll ever see a different variable name,
+ * and may end up looping here forever.
+ */
+ if (variable_is_present(variable_name, &vendor_guid)) {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "efivars: duplicate variable name.\n");
+ status = EFI_NOT_FOUND;
+ break;
+ }
+
efivar_create_sysfs_entry(efivars,
variable_name_size,
variable_name,
--
1.7.11.7
--
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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