The existing code could fail to allocate depending on allocation size, as although repeated allocation attempts were made, none were guaranteed to be page aligned. Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c index cd7701f..8582650 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c @@ -105,6 +105,13 @@ static efi_status_t efi_high_alloc(efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg, if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) goto fail; + /* Enforce minimum alignment that EFI requires when requesting + * a specific address. We are doing page-based allocations, + * so we must be aligned to a page. + */ + if (align < EFI_PAGE_SIZE) + align = EFI_PAGE_SIZE; + nr_pages = round_up(size, EFI_PAGE_SIZE) / EFI_PAGE_SIZE; again: for (i = 0; i < map_size / desc_size; i++) { @@ -184,6 +191,13 @@ static efi_status_t efi_low_alloc(efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg, if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) goto fail; + /* Enforce minimum alignment that EFI requires when requesting + * a specific address. We are doing page-based allocations, + * so we must be aligned to a page. + */ + if (align < EFI_PAGE_SIZE) + align = EFI_PAGE_SIZE; + nr_pages = round_up(size, EFI_PAGE_SIZE) / EFI_PAGE_SIZE; for (i = 0; i < map_size / desc_size; i++) { efi_memory_desc_t *desc; -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html