This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/efi: Make efi_set_virtual_address_map IBT safe
to the 6.1-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-efi-make-efi_set_virtual_address_map-ibt-safe.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 73a7788a3288bd71ad780326a7320681482a03be
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Jun 29 21:35:19 2023 +0200
x86/efi: Make efi_set_virtual_address_map IBT safe
[ Upstream commit 0303c9729afc4094ef53e552b7b8cff7436028d6 ]
Niklāvs reported a boot regression on an Alderlake machine and bisected it
to commit 9df9d2f0471b ("init: Invoke arch_cpu_finalize_init() earlier").
By moving the invocation of arch_cpu_finalize_init() further down he
identified that efi_enter_virtual_mode() is the function which causes the
boot hang.
The main difference of the earlier invocation is that the boot CPU is
already fully initialized and mitigations and alternatives are applied.
But the only really interesting change turned out to be IBT, which is now
enabled before efi_enter_virtual_mode(). "ibt=off" on the kernel command
line cured the problem.
Inspection of the involved calls in efi_enter_virtual_mode() unearthed that
efi_set_virtual_address_map() is the only place in the kernel which invokes
an EFI call without the IBT safe wrapper. This went obviously unnoticed so
far as IBT was enabled later.
Use arch_efi_call_virt() instead of efi_call() to cure that.
Fixes: fe379fa4d199 ("x86/ibt: Disable IBT around firmware")
Fixes: 9df9d2f0471b ("init: Invoke arch_cpu_finalize_init() earlier")
Reported-by: Niklāvs Koļesņikovs <pinkflames.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217602
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87jzvm12q0.ffs@tglx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
index b36596bf0fc38..601908bdbeadc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
@@ -847,9 +847,9 @@ efi_set_virtual_address_map(unsigned long memory_map_size,
/* Disable interrupts around EFI calls: */
local_irq_save(flags);
- status = efi_call(efi.runtime->set_virtual_address_map,
- memory_map_size, descriptor_size,
- descriptor_version, virtual_map);
+ status = arch_efi_call_virt(efi.runtime, set_virtual_address_map,
+ memory_map_size, descriptor_size,
+ descriptor_version, virtual_map);
local_irq_restore(flags);
efi_fpu_end();
