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SubjectRe: [PATCH] efi: Check EFI revision in setup_efi_vars
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 03:44:30PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On 24/04/13 15:37, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > We need to check the runtime sys_table for the EFI version the firmware
> > specifies instead of just checking for a NULL QueryVariableInfo. Older
> > implementations of EFI don't have QueryVariableInfo but the runtime is
> > a smaller structure, so the pointer to it may be pointing off into garbage.
> >
> > This is apparently the case with several Apple firmwares that support EFI
> > 1.10, and the current check causes them to no longer boot. Fix based on
> > a suggestion from Matthew Garrett.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c | 4 +++-
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c
> > index 8615f75..b46efbf 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c
> > @@ -258,7 +258,9 @@ static efi_status_t setup_efi_vars(struct boot_params *params)
> > u64 store_size, remaining_size, var_size;
> > efi_status_t status;
> >
> > - if (!sys_table->runtime->query_variable_info)
> > + if (sys_table->runtime->hdr.revision < EFI_2_00_SYSTEM_TABLE_REVISION)
> > + return EFI_UNSUPPORTED;
> > + else if(!sys_table->runtime->query_variable_info)
> > return EFI_UNSUPPORTED;
> >
> > data = (struct setup_data *)(unsigned long)params->hdr.setup_data;
> >
>
> Thanks Josh, that looks correct.
>
> It's a small point, but does the check against NULL actually make sense?
> I don't think we ever check other system table pointers against NULL.

That I'm not sure of. I was going off of the assumption that Matthew
put it there because someone's EFI 2.0 implementation was crappy and
didn't actually implement it. So I left that check in place for now.

josh


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