I usually see
|Ignoring BGRT: failed to allocate memory for image (wanted 264301314 bytes)
|Ignoring BGRT: failed to allocate memory for image (wanted 3925872891 bytes)
sometimes I get
|------------[ cut here ]------------
|WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at mm/early_ioremap.c:136 __early_ioremap.constprop.0+0x113/0x1d3()
…
| [<ffffffff81b3de8c>] __early_ioremap.constprop.0+0x113/0x1d3
| [<ffffffff81b3e106>] early_ioremap+0x13/0x15
| [<ffffffff81b2c4a9>] efi_bgrt_init+0x1e2/0x27d
…
now and then. The data behind that pointer changes on each boot because
nobody preserves the content across kexec.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
I don't know much about the requirement of having the .bmp in memory all the
time. Would it be a bad thing to compress the bmp and uncompress on cat from
userland? In my case the bmp has 272 KiB and LZO gets it down to 12KiB,
XZ 7.4KiB.
arch/x86/platform/efi/efi-bgrt.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi-bgrt.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi-bgrt.c
index d7f997f7c26d..59710f0875bb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi-bgrt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi-bgrt.c
@@ -79,6 +79,10 @@ void __init efi_bgrt_init(void)
memcpy_fromio(&bmp_header, image, sizeof(bmp_header));
if (ioremapped)
early_iounmap(image, sizeof(bmp_header));
+ if (bmp_header.id != 0x4d42) {
+ pr_err("BGRT: Not a valid BMP file.\n");
+ return;
+ }
bgrt_image_size = bmp_header.size;
bgrt_image = kmalloc(bgrt_image_size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
--
2.1.4
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