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Ard Biesheuvel c8f325a59c efi/fdt: Avoid FDT manipulation after ExitBootServices()
Some AArch64 UEFI implementations disable the MMU in ExitBootServices(),
after which unaligned accesses to RAM are no longer supported.

Commit:

  abfb7b686a ("efi/libstub/arm*: Pass latest memory map to the kernel")

fixed an issue in the memory map handling of the stub FDT code, but
inadvertently created an issue with such firmware, by moving some
of the FDT manipulation to after the invocation of ExitBootServices().

Given that the stub's libfdt implementation uses the ordinary, accelerated
string functions, which rely on hardware handling of unaligned accesses,
manipulating the FDT with the MMU off may result in alignment faults.

So fix the situation by moving the update_fdt_memmap() call into the
callback function invoked by efi_exit_boot_services() right before it
calls the ExitBootServices() UEFI service (which is arguably a better
place for it anyway)

Note that disabling the MMU in ExitBootServices() is not compliant with
the UEFI spec, and carries great risk due to the fact that switching from
cached to uncached memory accesses halfway through compiler generated code
(i.e., involving a stack) can never be done in a way that is architecturally
safe.

Fixes: abfb7b686a ("efi/libstub/arm*: Pass latest memory map to the kernel")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Cc: leif.lindholm@linaro.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485971102-23330-2-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-02-01 21:17:49 +01:00
Documentation Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: add VmPin 2017-01-24 16:26:14 -08:00
arch x86/efi: Always map the first physical page into the EFI pagetables 2017-01-28 09:18:56 +01:00
block blk-mq: Remove unused variable 2017-01-18 15:14:15 -07:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto crypto: testmgr - Use heap buffer for acomp test input 2016-12-27 17:32:11 +08:00
drivers efi/fdt: Avoid FDT manipulation after ExitBootServices() 2017-02-01 21:17:49 +01:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs romfs: use different way to generate fsid for BLOCK or MTD 2017-01-24 16:26:14 -08:00
include mm, page_alloc: fix check for NULL preferred_zone 2017-01-24 16:26:14 -08:00
init cgroup: move CONFIG_SOCK_CGROUP_DATA to init/Kconfig 2017-01-11 09:47:10 -05:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: fix incorrect sem_lock pairing 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
kernel Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-01-24 16:54:39 -08:00
lib mm: do not export ioremap_page_range symbol for external module 2017-01-24 16:26:14 -08:00
mm mm, page_alloc: fix premature OOM when racing with cpuset mems update 2017-01-24 16:26:14 -08:00
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security Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v4.10 2017-01-11 19:49:27 +01:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.