Re: [BUG][SEVERE] Enabling EFI runtime services causes panics in the T2 security chip on Macs equipped with it.

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Mon Jan 10 2022 - 12:45:53 EST


On Mon, 10 Jan 2022 at 17:37, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2022 at 17:28, Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
> > >>
> > >> This seems to be triggered by EFI_QUERY_VARIABLE_INFO here
> > >>
> > >
> > > This is interesting. QueryVariableInfo() was introduced in EFI 2.00,
> > > and for a very long time, Intel MACs would claim to implement EFI 1.10
> > > only. This means Linux would never attempt to use QueryVariableInfo()
> > > on such platforms.
> > >
> > > Can you please check your boot log which revision it claims to implement now?
> > >
> > > Mine says
> > >
> > > efi: EFI v1.10 by Apple
> >
> > Mine says
> >
> > efi: EFI v2.40 by Apple
> >

Can you check whether things work as before after applying the change below?

diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
index 147c30a81f15..d7203355cc69 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ static int __init efi_systab_init(unsigned long phys)
efi_nr_tables = systab32->nr_tables;
}

- efi.runtime_version = hdr->revision;
+ efi.runtime_version = EFI_1_10_SYSTEM_TABLE_REVISION;

efi_systab_report_header(hdr, efi_fw_vendor);
early_memunmap(p, size);