This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/boot: Pull up cmdline preparation and early param parsing to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: x86-boot-pull-up-cmdline-preparation-and-early-param-parsing.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 8d48bf8206f77aa8687f0e241e901e5197e52423 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2021 10:41:51 +0100 Subject: x86/boot: Pull up cmdline preparation and early param parsing From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> commit 8d48bf8206f77aa8687f0e241e901e5197e52423 upstream. Dan reports that Anjaneya Chagam can no longer use the efi=nosoftreserve kernel command line parameter to suppress "soft reservation" behavior. This is due to the fact that the following call-chain happens at boot: early_reserve_memory |-> efi_memblock_x86_reserve_range |-> efi_fake_memmap_early which does if (!efi_soft_reserve_enabled()) return; and that would have set EFI_MEM_NO_SOFT_RESERVE after having parsed "nosoftreserve". However, parse_early_param() gets called *after* it, leading to the boot cmdline not being taken into account. Therefore, carve out the command line preparation into a separate function which does the early param parsing too. So that it all goes together. And then call that function before early_reserve_memory() so that the params would have been parsed by then. Fixes: 8aa83e6395ce ("x86/setup: Call early_reserve_memory() earlier") Reported-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Tested-by: Anjaneya Chagam <anjaneya.chagam@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e8dd8993c38702ee6dd73b3c11f158617e665607.camel@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c @@ -742,6 +742,28 @@ dump_kernel_offset(struct notifier_block return 0; } +static char *prepare_command_line(void) +{ +#ifdef CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL +#ifdef CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE + strlcpy(boot_command_line, builtin_cmdline, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE); +#else + if (builtin_cmdline[0]) { + /* append boot loader cmdline to builtin */ + strlcat(builtin_cmdline, " ", COMMAND_LINE_SIZE); + strlcat(builtin_cmdline, boot_command_line, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE); + strlcpy(boot_command_line, builtin_cmdline, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE); + } +#endif +#endif + + strlcpy(command_line, boot_command_line, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE); + + parse_early_param(); + + return command_line; +} + /* * Determine if we were loaded by an EFI loader. If so, then we have also been * passed the efi memmap, systab, etc., so we should use these data structures @@ -831,6 +853,23 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p) x86_init.oem.arch_setup(); /* + * x86_configure_nx() is called before parse_early_param() (called by + * prepare_command_line()) to detect whether hardware doesn't support + * NX (so that the early EHCI debug console setup can safely call + * set_fixmap()). It may then be called again from within noexec_setup() + * during parsing early parameters to honor the respective command line + * option. + */ + x86_configure_nx(); + + /* + * This parses early params and it needs to run before + * early_reserve_memory() because latter relies on such settings + * supplied as early params. + */ + *cmdline_p = prepare_command_line(); + + /* * Do some memory reservations *before* memory is added to memblock, so * memblock allocations won't overwrite it. * @@ -863,33 +902,6 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p) bss_resource.start = __pa_symbol(__bss_start); bss_resource.end = __pa_symbol(__bss_stop)-1; -#ifdef CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL -#ifdef CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE - strlcpy(boot_command_line, builtin_cmdline, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE); -#else - if (builtin_cmdline[0]) { - /* append boot loader cmdline to builtin */ - strlcat(builtin_cmdline, " ", COMMAND_LINE_SIZE); - strlcat(builtin_cmdline, boot_command_line, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE); - strlcpy(boot_command_line, builtin_cmdline, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE); - } -#endif -#endif - - strlcpy(command_line, boot_command_line, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE); - *cmdline_p = command_line; - - /* - * x86_configure_nx() is called before parse_early_param() to detect - * whether hardware doesn't support NX (so that the early EHCI debug - * console setup can safely call set_fixmap()). It may then be called - * again from within noexec_setup() during parsing early parameters - * to honor the respective command line option. - */ - x86_configure_nx(); - - parse_early_param(); - #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG /* * Memory used by the kernel cannot be hot-removed because Linux Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bp@xxxxxxx are queue-5.15/x86-boot-pull-up-cmdline-preparation-and-early-param-parsing.patch