On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 03:00:17PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 11:12:37AM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > Do not try to refresh the RNG seed in case the firmware does not support
> > setting variables.
> >
> > This is specifically needed to prevent a NULL-pointer dereference on the
> > Lenovo X13s with some firmware revisions, or more generally, whenever
> > the runtime services have been disabled (e.g. efi=noruntime or with
> > PREEMPT_RT).
> >
> > Fixes: e7b813b32a42 ("efi: random: refresh non-volatile random seed when RNG is initialized")
> > Reported-by: Steev Klimaszewski <steev@xxxxxxxx>
> > Reported-by: Bjorn Andersson <andersson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Tested-by: Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@xxxxxxxxxx> # sc8280xp-lenovo-thinkpad-x13s
> > Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > Changes in v2
> > - amend commit message with a comment on this being needed whenever the
> > runtime services have been disabled
>
> I'll queue up the one with the amended commit message.
Perfect, thanks!
Johan
