PATCH: kexec/i386: fix erroneous memory descriptor message
Simon Horman
horms at verge.net.au
Fri Mar 28 12:44:04 EDT 2014
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 01:47:15PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> On 03/26/14 at 09:54pm, Tony Jones wrote:
> > On non-EFI systems, efi_info section of boot_params is zero filled resulting
> > in an erroneous message from kexec regarding "efi memory descriptor" version.
> >
> > Caused by commit: e1ffc9e9a0769e1f54185003102e9bec428b84e8 "Passing efi related
> > data via setup_data"
> >
> > # od -j 448 -N 32 -v -x /sys/kernel/boot_params/data
> > 0000700 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> > 0000720 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> > 0000740
> >
> > # kexec -l --reuse-cmdline --initrd=/boot/initrd-`uname -r` /boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r`
> > efi memory descriptor version 0 is not supported!
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <tonyj at suse.de>
> >
> > ---
> > kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c | 14 +++++++++++---
> > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > --- a/kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c
> > +++ b/kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c
> > @@ -687,17 +687,25 @@ static void setup_efi_info(struct kexec_
> > ret = get_bootparam(&real_mode->efi_info, offset, 32);
> > if (ret)
> > return;
> > + if (((struct efi_info *)real_mode->efi_info)->efi_memmap_size == 0)
> > + /* zero filled efi_info */
> > + goto out;
> > desc_version = get_efi_mem_desc_version(real_mode);
> > if (desc_version != 1) {
> > fprintf(stderr,
> > "efi memory descriptor version %d is not supported!\n",
> > desc_version);
> > - memset(&real_mode->efi_info, 0, 32);
> > - return;
> > + goto out;
> > }
> > ret = setup_efi_data(info, real_mode);
> > if (ret)
> > - memset(&real_mode->efi_info, 0, 32);
> > + goto out;
> > +
> > + return;
> > +
> > +out:
> > + memset(&real_mode->efi_info, 0, 32);
> > + return;
> > }
> >
> > void setup_linux_system_parameters(struct kexec_info *info,
>
> Good catch, thanks.
>
> Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
Thanks, Applied.
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