After [1][2], if we catch exceptions due to EFI runtime service, we will clear EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES bit to disable EFI runtime service, then the subsequent routine which invoke the EFI runtime service should fail. But the userspace cat efivars through /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/ will stuck and infinite loop calling read() due to efivarfs_file_read() return -EINTR. The -EINTR is converted from EFI_ABORTED by efi_status_to_err(), and is an improper return value in this situation, so let virt_efi_xxx() return EFI_DEVICE_ERROR and converted to -EIO to invoker. [1]: commit 3425d934fc03 ("efi/x86: Handle page faults occurring while running EFI runtime services") [2]: commit 23715a26c8d8 ("arm64: efi: Recover from synchronous exceptions occurring in firmware") Signed-off-by: Ding Hui <dinghui@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c index 7feee3d9c2bf..1fba4e09cdcf 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ struct efi_runtime_work efi_rts_work; \ if (!efi_enabled(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES)) { \ pr_warn_once("EFI Runtime Services are disabled!\n"); \ + efi_rts_work.status = EFI_DEVICE_ERROR; \ goto exit; \ } \ \ -- 2.17.1