This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled efi: fix return value of __setup handlers 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: efi-fix-return-value-of-__setup-handlers.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. commit d6cb88ea78c09c1cc60a761011dda5814cd2b44d Author: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Feb 28 20:18:51 2022 -0800 efi: fix return value of __setup handlers [ Upstream commit 9feaf8b387ee0ece9c1d7add308776b502a35d0c ] When "dump_apple_properties" is used on the kernel boot command line, it causes an Unknown parameter message and the string is added to init's argument strings: Unknown kernel command line parameters "dump_apple_properties BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/bzImage-517rc6 efivar_ssdt=newcpu_ssdt", will be passed to user space. Run /sbin/init as init process with arguments: /sbin/init dump_apple_properties with environment: HOME=/ TERM=linux BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/bzImage-517rc6 efivar_ssdt=newcpu_ssdt Similarly when "efivar_ssdt=somestring" is used, it is added to the Unknown parameter message and to init's environment strings, polluting them (see examples above). Change the return value of the __setup functions to 1 to indicate that the __setup options have been handled. Fixes: 58c5475aba67 ("x86/efi: Retrieve and assign Apple device properties") Fixes: 475fb4e8b2f4 ("efi / ACPI: load SSTDs from EFI variables") Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Igor Zhbanov <i.zhbanov@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: lore.kernel.org/r/64644a2f-4a20-bab3-1e15-3b2cdd0defe3@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-efi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220301041851.12459-1-rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/apple-properties.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/apple-properties.c index 4c3201e290e2..ea84108035eb 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/apple-properties.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/apple-properties.c @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ static bool dump_properties __initdata; static int __init dump_properties_enable(char *arg) { dump_properties = true; - return 0; + return 1; } __setup("dump_apple_properties", dump_properties_enable); diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c index 9fa86288b78a..e3df82d5d37a 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ static int __init efivar_ssdt_setup(char *str) memcpy(efivar_ssdt, str, strlen(str)); else pr_warn("efivar_ssdt: name too long: %s\n", str); - return 0; + return 1; } __setup("efivar_ssdt=", efivar_ssdt_setup);