On Thu, 12 Feb, at 11:31:02PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>
> Actually, looking again at the original patch, it appears that my
> analysis was incorrect regarding the possibility that the loop would
> never terminate. The only thing that could happen if desc_size >
> sizeof(efi_memory_desc_t) is that you need two iterations instead of
> one to get a pool allocation that is of sufficient size.
> So perhaps it is better to just revert the patch.
>
> My apologies for the hassle.
This is what I've got queued up,
---
>From 3f281b98ffc99e604a3988aa93304a3a591eeeb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 15:46:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "efi/libstub: Call get_memory_map() to obtain map and
desc sizes"
This reverts commit d1a8d66b9177105e898e73716f97eb61842c457a.
Ard reported a boot failure when running UEFI under Qemu and Xen and
experimenting with various Tianocore build options,
"As it turns out, when allocating room for the UEFI memory map using
UEFI's AllocatePool (), it may result in two new memory map entries
being created, for instance, when using Tianocore's preallocated region
feature. For example, the following region
0x00005ead5000-0x00005ebfffff [Conventional Memory| | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC]
may be split like this
0x00005ead5000-0x00005eae2fff [Conventional Memory| | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC]
0x00005eae3000-0x00005eae4fff [Loader Data | | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC]
0x00005eae5000-0x00005ebfffff [Conventional Memory| | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC]
if the preallocated Loader Data region was chosen to be right in the
middle of the original free space.
After patch d1a8d66b9177 ("efi/libstub: Call get_memory_map() to
obtain map and desc sizes"), this is not being dealt with correctly
anymore, as the existing logic to allocate room for a single additional
entry has become insufficient."
Mark requested to reinstate the old loop we had before commit
d1a8d66b9177, which grows the memory map buffer until it's big enough to
hold the EFI memory map.
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c | 16 ++++++----------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c
index d073e3946383..9bd9fbb5bea8 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c
@@ -66,29 +66,25 @@ efi_status_t efi_get_memory_map(efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg,
unsigned long key;
u32 desc_version;
- *map_size = 0;
- *desc_size = 0;
- key = 0;
- status = efi_call_early(get_memory_map, map_size, NULL,
- &key, desc_size, &desc_version);
- if (status != EFI_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL)
- return EFI_LOAD_ERROR;
-
+ *map_size = sizeof(*m) * 32;
+again:
/*
* Add an additional efi_memory_desc_t because we're doing an
* allocation which may be in a new descriptor region.
*/
- *map_size += *desc_size;
+ *map_size += sizeof(*m);
status = efi_call_early(allocate_pool, EFI_LOADER_DATA,
*map_size, (void **)&m);
if (status != EFI_SUCCESS)
goto fail;
+ *desc_size = 0;
+ key = 0;
status = efi_call_early(get_memory_map, map_size, m,
&key, desc_size, &desc_version);
if (status == EFI_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL) {
efi_call_early(free_pool, m);
- return EFI_LOAD_ERROR;
+ goto again;
}
if (status != EFI_SUCCESS)
--
1.9.3
--
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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