This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
efi/bgrt: Skip efi_bgrt_init() in case of non-EFI boot
to the 4.11-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-bgrt-skip-efi_bgrt_init-in-case-of-non-efi-boot.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 7425826f4f7ac60f2538b06a7f0a5d1006405159 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 12:36:51 +0100
Subject: efi/bgrt: Skip efi_bgrt_init() in case of non-EFI boot
From: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 7425826f4f7ac60f2538b06a7f0a5d1006405159 upstream.
Sabrina Dubroca reported an early panic:
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffff240001
IP: efi_bgrt_init+0xdc/0x134
[...]
---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
... which was introduced by:
7b0a911478c7 ("efi/x86: Move the EFI BGRT init code to early init code")
The cause is that on this machine the firmware provides the EFI ACPI BGRT
table even on legacy non-EFI bootups - which table should be EFI only.
The garbage BGRT data causes the efi_bgrt_init() panic.
Add a check to skip efi_bgrt_init() in case non-EFI bootup to work around
this firmware bug.
Tested-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-efi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 7b0a911478c7 ("efi/x86: Move the EFI BGRT init code to early init code")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170526113652.21339-6-matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[ Rewrote the changelog to be more readable. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/platform/efi/efi-bgrt.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi-bgrt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi-bgrt.c
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ void __init efi_bgrt_init(struct acpi_ta
if (acpi_disabled)
return;
+ if (!efi_enabled(EFI_BOOT))
+ return;
+
if (table->length < sizeof(bgrt_tab)) {
pr_notice("Ignoring BGRT: invalid length %u (expected %zu)\n",
table->length, sizeof(bgrt_tab));
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.11/efi-bgrt-skip-efi_bgrt_init-in-case-of-non-efi-boot.patch