From: Sai Praneeth <sai.praneeth.prakhya@xxxxxxxxx>
Booting kexec kernel with "efi=old_map" in kernel command line hits
kernel panic as shown below.
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff88007fe78070
IP: virt_efi_set_variable.part.7+0x63/0x1b0
PGD 7ea28067
PUD 7ea2b067
PMD 7ea2d067
PTE 0
[...]
Call Trace:
virt_efi_set_variable+0x5d/0x70
efi_delete_dummy_variable+0x7a/0x80
efi_enter_virtual_mode+0x3f6/0x4a7
start_kernel+0x375/0x400
x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c
x86_64_start_kernel+0x168/0x176
start_cpu+0x14/0x14
[ efi=old_map was never intended to work with kexec. The problem with
using efi=old_map is that the virtual addresses are assigned from the
memory region used by other kernel mappings; vmalloc() space.
Potentially there could be collisions when booting kexec if something
else is mapped at the virtual address we allocated for runtime service
regions in the initial boot - Matt Fleming ]
Since kexec was never intended to work with efi=old_map, disable
runtime services in kexec if booted with efi=old_map, so that we don't
panic.
Signed-off-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ravi Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Lee Chun-Yi <jlee@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
index 7e76a4d8304b..43b96f5f78ba 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
@@ -828,9 +828,11 @@ static void __init kexec_enter_virtual_mode(void)
/*
* We don't do virtual mode, since we don't do runtime services, on
- * non-native EFI
+ * non-native EFI. With efi=old_map, we don't do runtime services in
+ * kexec kernel because in the initial boot something else might
+ * have been mapped at these virtual addresses.
*/
- if (!efi_is_native()) {
+ if (!efi_is_native() || efi_enabled(EFI_OLD_MEMMAP)) {
efi_memmap_unmap();
clear_bit(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES, &efi.flags);
return;
--
2.12.2
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