Re: [Possible BUG] arm64: efi: efi_runtime_fixup_exception() and efi_call_virt_check_flags() both taint the kernel

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2022 at 11:10, Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Speaking as an user, I think it would be nice to revert the commit, that's
> how I am running v6.1-rcX kernels on the machine, as updating the firmware
> is not feasible right now. But I realize that I'm not the one maintaining
> the code, so I don't have a strong opinion about it :) And it's better now
> than it was at rc3, when the kernel was panicing.
>

I sent out a patch yesterday that tweaks the sync exception fixup
handler to only disable the runtime service that triggered the
exception. This means, of course, that you might hit it multiple times
if several runtime service implementations are buggy, but there are
only five or so that we actually use, so that shouldn't make a huge
difference. But it also means a) we don't trigger other code paths
that freak out when a runtime service that was available suddenly goes
away and b) the diagnostics are more useful because we will find out
which other runtime services are broken.

Could you please test that patch? And for good measure, could you try
something like

efibootmgr -t 3

(as root) to exercise the SetVariable() path as well?