Re: [PATCH] x86/boot: Fix boot failure regression

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I can confirm 5.3-rc5 is booting again from internal M2 drive on
Skylake i5 NUC with this commit - many thanks!

Regards
Neil

On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 at 20:25, John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> commit a90118c445cc ("x86/boot: Save fields explicitly, zero out
> everything else") had two errors:
>
>     * It preserved boot_params.acpi_rsdp_addr, and
>     * It failed to preserve boot_params.hdr
>
> Therefore, zero out acpi_rsdp_addr, and preserve hdr.
>
> Fixes: a90118c445cc ("x86/boot: Save fields explicitly, zero out everything else")
> Reported-by: Neil MacLeod <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h
> index f5e90a849bca..9e5f3c722c33 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h
> @@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ static void sanitize_boot_params(struct boot_params *boot_params)
>                         BOOT_PARAM_PRESERVE(apm_bios_info),
>                         BOOT_PARAM_PRESERVE(tboot_addr),
>                         BOOT_PARAM_PRESERVE(ist_info),
> -                       BOOT_PARAM_PRESERVE(acpi_rsdp_addr),
>                         BOOT_PARAM_PRESERVE(hd0_info),
>                         BOOT_PARAM_PRESERVE(hd1_info),
>                         BOOT_PARAM_PRESERVE(sys_desc_table),
> @@ -71,6 +70,7 @@ static void sanitize_boot_params(struct boot_params *boot_params)
>                         BOOT_PARAM_PRESERVE(eddbuf_entries),
>                         BOOT_PARAM_PRESERVE(edd_mbr_sig_buf_entries),
>                         BOOT_PARAM_PRESERVE(edd_mbr_sig_buffer),
> +                       BOOT_PARAM_PRESERVE(hdr),
>                         BOOT_PARAM_PRESERVE(e820_table),
>                         BOOT_PARAM_PRESERVE(eddbuf),
>                 };
> --
> 2.22.1
>



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