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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/firmware')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 48 |
1 files changed, 47 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c index 1e9d9b9d7a12..d64661fda4fd 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c @@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ efivar_create_sysfs_entry(struct efivars *efivars, static void efivar_update_sysfs_entries(struct work_struct *); static DECLARE_WORK(efivar_work, efivar_update_sysfs_entries); +static bool efivar_wq_enabled = true; /* Return the number of unicode characters in data */ static unsigned long @@ -1444,7 +1445,7 @@ static int efi_pstore_write(enum pstore_type_id type, spin_unlock_irqrestore(&efivars->lock, flags); - if (reason == KMSG_DUMP_OOPS) + if (reason == KMSG_DUMP_OOPS && efivar_wq_enabled) schedule_work(&efivar_work); *id = part; @@ -1975,6 +1976,35 @@ void unregister_efivars(struct efivars *efivars) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_efivars); +/* + * Print a warning when duplicate EFI variables are encountered and + * disable the sysfs workqueue since the firmware is buggy. + */ +static void dup_variable_bug(efi_char16_t *s16, efi_guid_t *vendor_guid, + unsigned long len16) +{ + size_t i, len8 = len16 / sizeof(efi_char16_t); + char *s8; + + /* + * Disable the workqueue since the algorithm it uses for + * detecting new variables won't work with this buggy + * implementation of GetNextVariableName(). + */ + efivar_wq_enabled = false; + + s8 = kzalloc(len8, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!s8) + return; + + for (i = 0; i < len8; i++) + s8[i] = s16[i]; + + printk(KERN_WARNING "efivars: duplicate variable: %s-%pUl\n", + s8, vendor_guid); + kfree(s8); +} + int register_efivars(struct efivars *efivars, const struct efivar_operations *ops, struct kobject *parent_kobj) @@ -2025,6 +2055,22 @@ int register_efivars(struct efivars *efivars, case EFI_SUCCESS: variable_name_size = var_name_strnsize(variable_name, variable_name_size); + + /* + * Some firmware implementations return the + * same variable name on multiple calls to + * get_next_variable(). Terminate the loop + * immediately as there is no guarantee that + * we'll ever see a different variable name, + * and may end up looping here forever. + */ + if (variable_is_present(variable_name, &vendor_guid)) { + dup_variable_bug(variable_name, &vendor_guid, + variable_name_size); + status = EFI_NOT_FOUND; + break; + } + efivar_create_sysfs_entry(efivars, variable_name_size, variable_name, |
