[PATCH 5.9 120/152] efi/efivars: Set generic ops before loading SSDT

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Dec 01 2020 - 04:13:11 EST


From: Amadeusz Sławiński <amadeuszx.slawinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 50bdcf047503e30126327d0be4f0ad7337106d68 ]

Efivars allows for overriding of SSDT tables, however starting with
commit

bf67fad19e493b ("efi: Use more granular check for availability for variable services")

this use case is broken. When loading SSDT generic ops should be set
first, however mentioned commit reversed order of operations. Fix this
by restoring original order of operations.

Fixes: bf67fad19e493b ("efi: Use more granular check for availability for variable services")
Signed-off-by: Amadeusz Sławiński <amadeuszx.slawinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201123172817.124146-1-amadeuszx.slawinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tested-by: Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@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 3aa07c3b51369..8ead4379e6e85 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
@@ -387,10 +387,10 @@ static int __init efisubsys_init(void)

if (efi_rt_services_supported(EFI_RT_SUPPORTED_GET_VARIABLE |
EFI_RT_SUPPORTED_GET_NEXT_VARIABLE_NAME)) {
- efivar_ssdt_load();
error = generic_ops_register();
if (error)
goto err_put;
+ efivar_ssdt_load();
platform_device_register_simple("efivars", 0, NULL, 0);
}

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2.27.0