From: Sai Praneeth <sai.praneeth.prakhya@xxxxxxxxx>
There are some machines with buggy firmware that access EFI regions in
1:1 mode (or physical mode) rather than virtual mode even after kernel
being booted. On these machines, if we invoke an EFI runtime service
(that does these buggy accesses) then it causes a page fault and hence
results in kernel hang. The page fault happens because the requested
region doesn't have appropriate page attributes set or the mapping for
the region might be missing. This issue was introduced by commit
67a9108ed431 ("x86/efi: Build our own page table structures"). Before
this commit, 1:1 mappings for EFI regions were in swapper_pgd and were
not needed to be synced, but this commit introduced efi_pgd which missed
these mappings.
Below shown are the efi_pgd dumps before and after the bad commit.
efi_dump_pagetable() is called before calling efi_merge_regions() in
__efi_enter_virtual_mode() and this kernel is booted on qemu to obtain
page table dumps.
EFI_PGT_DUMP before commit:
---------------------------
[0.007041] ---[ User Space ]---
[0.007427] 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000200000 2M RW GLB NX pte
[0.008609] 0x0000000000200000-0x0000000000800000 6M RW PSE GLB NX pmd
[0.010069] 0x0000000000800000-0x0000000000808000 32K pte
[0.011068] 0x0000000000808000-0x0000000000810000 32K RW GLB NX pte
[0.012325] 0x0000000000810000-0x0000000000900000 960K pte
[0.013071] 0x0000000000900000-0x0000000000a00000 1M RW GLB NX pte
[0.014579] 0x0000000000a00000-0x000000007e800000 2014M RW PSE GLB NX pmd
[0.015593] 0x000000007e800000-0x000000007e9b6000 1752K RW GLB NX pte
[0.016600] 0x000000007e9b6000-0x000000007e9fe000 288K pte
[0.018003] 0x000000007e9fe000-0x000000007ea00000 8K RW GLB NX pte
[0.019165] 0x000000007ea00000-0x000000007ec00000 2M RW PSE GLB NX pmd
[0.020331] 0x000000007ec00000-0x000000007eda9000 1700K RW GLB NX pte
[0.021483] 0x000000007eda9000-0x000000007ee14000 428K pte
[0.022500] 0x000000007ee14000-0x000000007f000000 1968K RW GLB NX pte
[0.023596] 0x000000007f000000-0x000000007fe00000 14M RW PSE GLB NX pmd
[0.025004] 0x000000007fe00000-0x000000007fe94000 592K RW GLB NX pte
[0.026220] 0x000000007fe94000-0x000000007fef8000 400K pte
[0.027069] 0x000000007fef8000-0x000000007ffd0000 864K RW GLB NX pte
[0.028420] 0x000000007ffd0000-0x000000007fff0000 128K pte
[0.029551] 0x000000007fff0000-0x0000000080000000 64K RW GLB NX pte
[0.030601] 0x0000000080000000-0x0000008000000000 510G pud
[0.031499] 0x0000008000000000-0xffff800000000000 17179737600G pgd
[0.032152] ---[ Kernel Space ]---
EFI_PGT_DUMP after commit:
--------------------------
[0.005620] ---[ User Space ]---
[0.005838] 0x0000000000000000-0xffff800000000000 16777088T pgd
[0.005873] ---[ Kernel Space ]---
While not having these mappings isn't a bug but we need these mappings
to support machines with buggy firmware.
Signed-off-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ravi Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
index 622fbc7c01cd..43f9cc45ae52 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ int __init efi_alloc_page_tables(void)
pgd_t *pgd;
pud_t *pud;
gfp_t gfp_mask;
+ unsigned num_pgds;
if (efi_enabled(EFI_OLD_MEMMAP))
return 0;
@@ -156,6 +157,13 @@ int __init efi_alloc_page_tables(void)
pgd_populate(NULL, pgd, pud);
+ /*
+ * Sync 1:1 mappings to support buggy firmware which haven't updated
+ * their addresses even after kernel has booted.
+ */
+ num_pgds = pgd_index(VMALLOC_START) - pgd_index(PAGE_OFFSET);
+ memcpy(efi_pgd, pgd_offset_k(PAGE_OFFSET), sizeof(pgd_t) * num_pgds);
+
return 0;
}
--
2.1.4
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