This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/efistub: Don't clear BSS twice in mixed mode
to the 6.8-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-efistub-don-t-clear-bss-twice-in-mixed-mode.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 1c7a2565189ae0678e21c999f4b7c61c690eca4e
Author: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Mar 22 17:01:45 2024 +0100
x86/efistub: Don't clear BSS twice in mixed mode
[ Upstream commit df7ecce842b846a04d087ba85fdb79a90e26a1b0 ]
Clearing BSS should only be done once, at the very beginning.
efi_pe_entry() is the entrypoint from the firmware, which may not clear
BSS and so it is done explicitly. However, efi_pe_entry() is also used
as an entrypoint by the mixed mode startup code, in which case BSS will
already have been cleared, and doing it again at this point will corrupt
global variables holding the firmware's GDT/IDT and segment selectors.
So make the memset() conditional on whether the EFI stub is running in
native mode.
Fixes: b3810c5a2cc4a666 ("x86/efistub: Clear decompressor BSS in native EFI entrypoint")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c
index 681f576ec02a0..c9857ee3880c2 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c
@@ -467,7 +467,8 @@ efi_status_t __efiapi efi_pe_entry(efi_handle_t handle,
efi_status_t status;
char *cmdline_ptr;
- memset(_bss, 0, _ebss - _bss);
+ if (efi_is_native())
+ memset(_bss, 0, _ebss - _bss);
efi_system_table = sys_table_arg;
