On Mon, 19 Dec, at 02:24:19PM, James Morse wrote:
> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> As reported by James, the current libstub code involving the annotated
> memory map only works somewhat correctly by accident, due to the fact
> that a pool allocation happens to be reused immediately, retaining its
> former contents.
>
> Instead of juggling memory maps, which makes the code more complex than
> it needs to be, simply put a placholder value into the FDT, and only
> write the actual value after ExitBootServices() has been called.
>
> Reported-by: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> [Update mmap-size too, remove updated_fdt()s unused params and header entry]
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> Hi Ard,
>
> This is a v2 of your patch that updates the mmap-size too. This solves the
> truncated memmap problem I saw with v1 on Seattle.
>
> The original patch was CC-stable, so I think this should also have:
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: ed9cc156c42f ("efi/libstub: Use efi_exit_boot_services() in FDT")
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>
> drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h | 8 ----
> drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/fdt.c | 75 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> 2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
Thanks James. I've queued this one up in the 'urgent' queue and tagged
it for stable. I'll send it to tip before the end of the week.
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