Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes for 3.9

[Michel Lespinasse]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:54 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 04/25/2013 03:53 PM, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Matthew Garrett
>> <matthew.garrett@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 15:20 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:44 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> -       if (!sys_table->runtime->query_variable_info)
>>>>> +       if (sys_table->runtime->hdr.revision < EFI_2_00_SYSTEM_TABLE_REVISION)
>>>>>                 return EFI_UNSUPPORTED;
>>>>
>>>> Is a EFI 2.00 system table *guaranteed* to have that
>>>> "query_variable_info" function? The above adds the version check, but
>>>> removes the check for a NULL pointer.
>>>
>>> As far as the spec's concerned, yes. As far as reality's concerned - if
>>> anything doesn't provide it, we're already crashing when
>>> efi_virt_query_variable_info() gets called. Nobody's complained so far.
>>
>> Well, I don't know if this is related, but commit e971318bbed6 broke
>> the google EFI SMI driver with
>> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
>> IP: [<ffffffff814a7245>] variable_is_present+0x55/0x170
>> Call Trace:
>> [<ffffffff814a9936>] register_efivars+0x106/0x370
>> [<ffffffff818ff430>] ? firmware_map_add_early+0xb1/0xb1
>> [<ffffffff818ff6dd>] gsmi_init+0x2ad/0x3da
>> [<ffffffff8100020f>] do_one_initcall+0x3f/0x170
>> ...
>
> I don't know either.  Could you test this patch and see if it does anything?

Nope, still seeing the crash with this patch applied.

-- 
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.
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