[PATCH 20/28] efi/x86: ignore memory attributes table on i386

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Sun Mar 08 2020 - 04:10:22 EST


Commit 3a6b6c6fb23667fa ("efi: Make EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE
initialization common across all architectures") moved the call to
efi_memattr_init() from ARM specific to generic EFI init code, in
order to be able to apply the restricted permissions described in
that table on x86 as well.

We never enabled this feature fully on i386, and so mapping and
reserving this table is pointless. However, due to the early call to
memblock_reserve(), the memory bookkeeping gets confused to the point
where it produces the splat below when we try to map the memory later
on:

------------[ cut here ]------------
ioremap on RAM at 0x3f251000 - 0x3fa1afff
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:166 __ioremap_caller ...
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.20.0 #48
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
EIP: __ioremap_caller.constprop.0+0x249/0x260
Code: 90 0f b7 05 4e 38 40 de 09 45 e0 e9 09 ff ff ff 90 8d 45 ec c6 05 ...
EAX: 00000029 EBX: 00000000 ECX: de59c228 EDX: 00000001
ESI: 3f250fff EDI: 00000000 EBP: de3edf20 ESP: de3edee0
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 EFLAGS: 00200296
CR0: 80050033 CR2: ffd17000 CR3: 1e58c000 CR4: 00040690
Call Trace:
ioremap_cache+0xd/0x10
? old_map_region+0x72/0x9d
old_map_region+0x72/0x9d
efi_map_region+0x8/0xa
efi_enter_virtual_mode+0x260/0x43b
start_kernel+0x329/0x3aa
i386_start_kernel+0xa7/0xab
startup_32_smp+0x164/0x168
---[ end trace e15ccf6b9f356833 ]---

Let's work around this by disregarding the memory attributes table
altogether on i386, which does not result in a loss of functionality
or protection, given that we never consumed the contents.

Fixes: 3a6b6c6fb23667fa ("efi: Make EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE ... ")
Tested-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200304165917.5893-1-ardb@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
index 1d5e9a030cb1..348fe572816b 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ int __init efi_config_parse_tables(const efi_config_table_t *config_tables,
}
}

- if (efi_enabled(EFI_MEMMAP))
+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_32) && efi_enabled(EFI_MEMMAP))
efi_memattr_init();

efi_tpm_eventlog_init();
--
2.17.1