Common to (U)EFI support on all platforms is the global "efi" data
structure, and the code that parses the System Table to locate
addresses to populate that structure with.
This patch adds both of these to the global EFI driver code and
removes the local definition of the global "efi" data structure from
the x86 and ia64 code.
Squashed into one big patch to avoid breaking bisection.
Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
My previous refactoring in commit 79bae42d51 ("dmi_scan: refactor
dmi_scan_machine(), {smbios,dmi}_present()") resulted in slightly tricky
code (though I think it's more elegant). Explain what it's doing.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The efivars code requires EFI runtime services to function, so check
that they are enabled.
This fixes a crash when booting with the "noefi" kernel parameter, and
also when mixing kernel and firmware "bitness", e.g. 32-bit kernel with
64-bit firmware.
Tested-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
"This is the powerpc changes for the 3.11 merge window. In addition to
the usual bug fixes and small updates, the main highlights are:
- Support for transparent huge pages by Aneesh Kumar for 64-bit
server processors. This allows the use of 16M pages as transparent
huge pages on kernels compiled with a 64K base page size.
- Base VFIO support for KVM on power by Alexey Kardashevskiy
- Wiring up of our nvram to the pstore infrastructure, including
putting compressed oopses in there by Aruna Balakrishnaiah
- Move, rework and improve our "EEH" (basically PCI error handling
and recovery) infrastructure. It is no longer specific to pseries
but is now usable by the new "powernv" platform as well (no
hypervisor) by Gavin Shan.
- I fixed some bugs in our math-emu instruction decoding and made it
usable to emulate some optional FP instructions on processors with
hard FP that lack them (such as fsqrt on Freescale embedded
processors).
- Support for Power8 "Event Based Branch" facility by Michael
Ellerman. This facility allows what is basically "userspace
interrupts" for performance monitor events.
- A bunch of Transactional Memory vs. Signals bug fixes and HW
breakpoint/watchpoint fixes by Michael Neuling.
And more ... I appologize in advance if I've failed to highlight
something that somebody deemed worth it."
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (156 commits)
pstore: Add hsize argument in write_buf call of pstore_ftrace_call
powerpc/fsl: add MPIC timer wakeup support
powerpc/mpic: create mpic subsystem object
powerpc/mpic: add global timer support
powerpc/mpic: add irq_set_wake support
powerpc/85xx: enable coreint for all the 64bit boards
powerpc/8xx: Erroneous double irq_eoi() on CPM IRQ in MPC8xx
powerpc/fsl: Enable CONFIG_E1000E in mpc85xx_smp_defconfig
powerpc/mpic: Add get_version API both for internal and external use
powerpc: Handle both new style and old style reserve maps
powerpc/hw_brk: Fix off by one error when validating DAWR region end
powerpc/pseries: Support compression of oops text via pstore
powerpc/pseries: Re-organise the oops compression code
pstore: Pass header size in the pstore write callback
powerpc/powernv: Fix iommu initialization again
powerpc/pseries: Inform the hypervisor we are using EBB regs
powerpc/perf: Add power8 EBB support
powerpc/perf: Core EBB support for 64-bit book3s
powerpc/perf: Drop MMCRA from thread_struct
powerpc/perf: Don't enable if we have zero events
...
Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- various misc bits
- I'm been patchmonkeying ocfs2 for a while, as Joel and Mark have been
distracted. There has been quite a bit of activity.
- About half the MM queue
- Some backlight bits
- Various lib/ updates
- checkpatch updates
- zillions more little rtc patches
- ptrace
- signals
- exec
- procfs
- rapidio
- nbd
- aoe
- pps
- memstick
- tools/testing/selftests updates
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (445 commits)
tools/testing/selftests: don't assume the x bit is set on scripts
selftests: add .gitignore for kcmp
selftests: fix clean target in kcmp Makefile
selftests: add .gitignore for vm
selftests: add hugetlbfstest
self-test: fix make clean
selftests: exit 1 on failure
kernel/resource.c: remove the unneeded assignment in function __find_resource
aio: fix wrong comment in aio_complete()
drivers/w1/slaves/w1_ds2408.c: add magic sequence to disable P0 test mode
drivers/memstick/host/r592.c: convert to module_pci_driver
drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms: convert to module_pci_driver
pps-gpio: add device-tree binding and support
drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: convert to module_platform_driver
drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: convert to devm_* helpers
drivers/parport/share.c: use kzalloc
Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: avoid strncpy in accounting tool
aoe: update internal version number to v83
aoe: update copyright date
aoe: perform I/O completions in parallel
...
dmi_match() considers a substring match to be a successful match. This is
not always sufficient to distinguish between DMI data for different
systems. Add support for exact string matching using strcmp() in addition
to the substring matching using strstr().
The specific use case in the i915 driver is to allow us to use an exact
match for D510MO, without also incorrectly matching D510MOV:
{
.ident = "Intel D510MO",
.matches = {
DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_VENDOR, "Intel"),
DMI_EXACT_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "D510MO"),
},
}
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Cc: <annndddrr@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Cornel Panceac <cpanceac@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Merge tag 'please-pull-pstore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux
Pull pstore update from Tony Luck:
"Fixes for pstore for 3.11 merge window"
* tag 'please-pull-pstore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux:
efivars: If pstore_register fails, free unneeded pstore buffer
acpi: Eliminate console msg if pstore.backend excludes ERST
pstore: Return unique error if backend registration excluded by kernel param
pstore: Fail to unlink if a driver has not defined pstore_erase
pstore/ram: remove the power of buffer size limitation
pstore/ram: avoid atomic accesses for ioremapped regions
efi, pstore: Cocci spatch "memdup.spatch"
Header size is needed to distinguish between header and the dump data.
Incorporate the addition of new argument (hsize) in the pstore write
callback.
Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah <aruna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This is patch 3/3 of a patch set that cleans up pstore_register failure paths.
If efivars fails to register with pstore, there is no point to keeping
the 4 KB buffer around. It's only used by the pstore read/write routines.
Signed-off-by: Lenny Szubowicz <lszubowi@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Naotaka Hamaguchi <n.hamaguchi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Change a kmalloc() + memcpy() pair for a single kmemdup() call.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
The usermode helper is mandatory for this driver.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull VFS updates from Al Viro,
Misc cleanups all over the place, mainly wrt /proc interfaces (switch
create_proc_entry to proc_create(), get rid of the deprecated
create_proc_read_entry() in favor of using proc_create_data() and
seq_file etc).
7kloc removed.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (204 commits)
don't bother with deferred freeing of fdtables
proc: Move non-public stuff from linux/proc_fs.h to fs/proc/internal.h
proc: Make the PROC_I() and PDE() macros internal to procfs
proc: Supply a function to remove a proc entry by PDE
take cgroup_open() and cpuset_open() to fs/proc/base.c
ppc: Clean up scanlog
ppc: Clean up rtas_flash driver somewhat
hostap: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
drm: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
drm: proc: Use minor->index to label things, not PDE->name
drm: Constify drm_proc_list[]
zoran: Don't print proc_dir_entry data in debug
reiserfs: Don't access the proc_dir_entry in r_open(), r_start() r_show()
proc: Supply an accessor for getting the data from a PDE's parent
airo: Use remove_proc_subtree()
rtl8192u: Don't need to save device proc dir PDE
rtl8187se: Use a dir under /proc/net/r8180/
proc: Add proc_mkdir_data()
proc: Move some bits from linux/proc_fs.h to linux/{of.h,signal.h,tty.h}
proc: Move PDE_NET() to fs/proc/proc_net.c
...
Pull x86/efi changes from Peter Anvin:
"The bulk of these changes are cleaning up the efivars handling and
breaking it up into a tree of files. There are a number of fixes as
well.
The entire changeset is pretty big, but most of it is code movement.
Several of these commits are quite new; the history got very messed up
due to a mismerge with the urgent changes for rc8 which completely
broke IA64, and so Ingo requested that we rebase it to straighten it
out."
* 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
efi: remove "kfree(NULL)"
efi: locking fix in efivar_entry_set_safe()
efi, pstore: Read data from variable store before memcpy()
efi, pstore: Remove entry from list when erasing
efi, pstore: Initialise 'entry' before iterating
efi: split efisubsystem from efivars
efivarfs: Move to fs/efivarfs
efivars: Move pstore code into the new EFI directory
efivars: efivar_entry API
efivars: Keep a private global pointer to efivars
efi: move utf16 string functions to efi.h
x86, efi: Make efi_memblock_x86_reserve_range more readable
efivarfs: convert to use simple_open()
Move the calls to memcpy_fromio() up into the loop in
dmi_scan_machine(), and move the signature checks back down into
dmi_decode(). We need to check at 16-byte intervals but keep a 32-byte
buffer for an SMBIOS entry, so shift the buffer after each iteration.
Merge smbios_present() into dmi_present(), so we look for an SMBIOS
signature at the beginning of the given buffer and then for a DMI
signature at an offset of 16 bytes.
[artem.savkov@gmail.com: use proper buf type in dmi_present()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Reported-by: Tim McGrath <tmhikaru@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Tim Mcgrath <tmhikaru@gmail.com>
Cc: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Savkov <artem.savkov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
x86 and ia64 can acquire extra hardware identification information
from DMI and print it along with task dumps; however, the usage isn't
consistent.
* x86 show_regs() collects vendor, product and board strings and print
them out with PID, comm and utsname. Some of the information is
printed again later in the same dump.
* warn_slowpath_common() explicitly accesses the DMI board and prints
it out with "Hardware name:" label. This applies to both x86 and
ia64 but is irrelevant on all other archs.
* ia64 doesn't show DMI information on other non-WARN dumps.
This patch introduces arch-specific hardware description used by
dump_stack(). It can be set by calling dump_stack_set_arch_desc()
during boot and, if exists, printed out in a separate line with
"Hardware name:" label.
dmi_set_dump_stack_arch_desc() is added which sets arch-specific
description from DMI data. It uses dmi_ids_string[] which is set from
dmi_present() used for DMI debug message. It is superset of the
information x86 show_regs() is using. The function is called from x86
and ia64 boot code right after dmi_scan_machine().
This makes the explicit DMI handling in warn_slowpath_common()
unnecessary. Removed.
show_regs() isn't yet converted to use generic debug information
printing and this patch doesn't remove the duplicate DMI handling in
x86 show_regs(). The next patch will unify show_regs() handling and
remove the duplication.
An example WARN dump follows.
WARNING: at kernel/workqueue.c:4841 init_workqueues+0x35/0x505()
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #3
Hardware name: empty empty/S3992, BIOS 080011 10/26/2007
0000000000000009 ffff88007c861e08 ffffffff81c614dc ffff88007c861e48
ffffffff8108f500 ffffffff82228240 0000000000000040 ffffffff8234a08e
0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88007c861e58
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81c614dc>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
[<ffffffff8108f500>] warn_slowpath_common+0x70/0xa0
[<ffffffff8108f54a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
[<ffffffff8234a0c3>] init_workqueues+0x35/0x505
...
v2: Use the same string as the debug message from dmi_present() which
also contains BIOS information. Move hardware name into its own
line as warn_slowpath_common() did. This change was suggested by
Bjorn Helgaas.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We're goning to use DMI identification for other purposes too. Morph
dmi_dump_ids() which is used to print DMI identification as a debug
message during boot into dmi_format_ids() which formats the same
information sans the leading "DMI:" tag into a string buffer.
dmi_present() is updated to format the information into dmi_ids_string[]
using the new function and print it with "DMI:" prefix.
dmi_ids_string[] will be used for another purpose by a future patch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The intent is that if we aren't allowed to block because we're in an
NMI or an emergency then we only take the lock if it is uncontended.
Part of the problem is the test is reversed so we return -EBUSY if we
acquire the lock.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Seiji reported getting empty dmesg-* files, because the data was never
actually read in efi_pstore_read_func(), and so the memcpy() was copying
garbage data.
This patch necessitated adding __efivar_entry_get() which is callable
between efivar_entry_iter_{begin,end}(). We can also delete
__efivar_entry_size() because efi_pstore_read_func() was the only
caller.
Reported-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Tested-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
We need to remove the entry from the EFI variable list before we erase
it from the variable store and free the associated state, otherwise it's
possible to hit the following crash,
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: [<ffffffff8142ea0f>] __efivar_entry_iter+0xcf/0x120
PGD 19483f067 PUD 195426067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[...]
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81430ebf>] efi_pstore_erase+0xef/0x140
[<ffffffff81003138>] ? math_error+0x288/0x2d0
[<ffffffff811ea491>] pstore_unlink+0x41/0x60
[<ffffffff811741ff>] vfs_unlink+0x9f/0x110
[<ffffffff8117813b>] do_unlinkat+0x18b/0x280
[<ffffffff8116d7e6>] ? sys_newfstatat+0x36/0x50
[<ffffffff81178472>] sys_unlinkat+0x22/0x40
[<ffffffff81543282>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Reported-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Tested-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Seiji reports hitting the following crash when erasing pstore dump
variables,
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000fa4
IP: [<ffffffff8142dadf>] __efivar_entry_iter+0x2f/0x120
PGD 18482a067 PUD 190724067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[...]
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8143001f>] efi_pstore_erase+0xdf/0x130
[<ffffffff81200038>] ? cap_socket_create+0x8/0x10
[<ffffffff811ea491>] pstore_unlink+0x41/0x60
[<ffffffff811741ff>] vfs_unlink+0x9f/0x110
[<ffffffff8117813b>] do_unlinkat+0x18b/0x280
[<ffffffff81178472>] sys_unlinkat+0x22/0x40
[<ffffffff81542402>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
'entry' needs to be initialised in efi_pstore_erase() when iterating
with __efivar_entry_iter(), otherwise the garbage pointer will be
dereferenced, leading to crashes like the above.
Reported-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Tested-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
When hot removing memory, a firmware_map_entry which has memory range of
the memory is released by release_firmware_map_entry(). If the entry is
allocated by bootmem, release_firmware_map_entry() adds the entry to
map_entires_bootmem list when firmware_map_find_entry() finds the entry
from map_entries list. But firmware_map_find_entry never find the entry
sicne map_entires list does not have the entry. So the entry just
leaks.
Here are steps of leaking firmware_map_entry:
firmware_map_remove()
-> firmware_map_find_entry()
Find released entry from map_entries list
-> firmware_map_remove_entry()
Delete the entry from map_entries list
-> remove_sysfs_fw_map_entry()
...
-> release_firmware_map_entry()
-> firmware_map_find_entry()
Find the entry from map_entries list but the entry has been
deleted from map_entries list. So the entry is not added
to map_entries_bootmem. Thus the entry leaks
release_firmware_map_entry() should not call firmware_map_find_entry()
since releaed entry has been deleted from map_entries list. So the
patch delete firmware_map_find_entry() from releae_firmware_map_entry()
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Include missing linux/magic.h inclusions where the source file is currently
expecting to get magic numbers through linux/proc_fs.h.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
variable_is_present() accesses '__efivars' directly, but when called via
gsmi_init() Michel reports observing the following crash,
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: variable_is_present+0x55/0x170
Call Trace:
register_efivars+0x106/0x370
gsmi_init+0x2ad/0x3da
do_one_initcall+0x3f/0x170
The reason for the crash is that '__efivars' hasn't been initialised nor
has it been registered with register_efivars() by the time the google
EFI SMI driver runs. The gsmi code uses its own struct efivars, and
therefore, a different variable list. Fix the above crash by passing
the registered struct efivars to variable_is_present(), so that we
traverse the correct list.
Reported-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Tested-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This registers /sys/firmware/efi/{,systab,efivars/} whenever EFI is enabled
and the system is booted with EFI.
This allows
*) userspace to check for the existence of /sys/firmware/efi as a way
to determine whether or it is running on an EFI system.
*) 'mount -t efivarfs none /sys/firmware/efi/efivars' without manually
loading any modules.
[ Also, move the efivar API into vars.c and unconditionally compile it.
This allows us to move efivars.c, which now only contains the sysfs
variable code, into the firmware/efi directory. Note that the efivars.c
filename is kept to maintain backwards compatability with the old
efivars.ko module. With this patch it is now possible for efivarfs
to be built without CONFIG_EFI_VARS - Matt ]
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Chun-Yi Lee <jlee@suse.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Tobias Powalowski <tpowa@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Now that efivarfs uses the efivar API, move it out of efivars.c and
into fs/efivarfs where it belongs. This move will eventually allow us
to enable the efivarfs code without having to also enable
CONFIG_EFI_VARS built, and vice versa.
Furthermore, things like,
mount -t efivarfs none /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
will now work if efivarfs is built as a module without requiring the
use of MODULE_ALIAS(), which would have been necessary when the
efivarfs code was part of efivars.c.
Cc: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Tested-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
efivars.c has grown far too large and needs to be divided up. Create a
new directory and move the persistence storage code to efi-pstore.c now
that it uses the new efivar API. This helps us to greatly reduce the
size of efivars.c and paves the way for moving other code out of
efivars.c.
Note that because CONFIG_EFI_VARS can be built as a module efi-pstore
must also include support for building as a module.
Reviewed-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Tested-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
There isn't really a formal interface for dealing with EFI variables
or struct efivar_entry. Historically, this has led to various bits of
code directly accessing the generic EFI variable ops, which inherently
ties it to specific EFI variable operations instead of indirectly
using whatever ops were registered with register_efivars(). This lead
to the efivarfs code only working with the generic EFI variable ops
and not CONFIG_GOOGLE_SMI.
Encapsulate everything that needs to access '__efivars' inside an
efivar_entry_* API and use the new API in the pstore, sysfs and
efivarfs code.
Much of the efivars code had to be rewritten to use this new API. For
instance, it is now up to the users of the API to build the initial
list of EFI variables in their efivar_init() callback function. The
variable list needs to be passed to efivar_init() which allows us to
keep work arounds for things like implementation bugs in
GetNextVariable() in a central location.
Allowing users of the API to use a callback function to build the list
greatly benefits the efivarfs code which needs to allocate inodes and
dentries for every variable. It previously did this in a racy way
because the code ran without holding the variable spinlock. Both the
sysfs and efivarfs code maintain their own lists which means the two
interfaces can be running simultaneously without interference, though
it should be noted that because no synchronisation is performed it is
very easy to create inconsistencies. efibootmgr doesn't currently use
efivarfs and users are likely to also require the old sysfs interface,
so it makes sense to allow both to be built.
Reviewed-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Tested-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Some machines have an EFI variable interface that does not conform to
the UEFI specification, e.g. CONFIG_GOOGLE_SMI. Add the necessary code
so that it's only possible to use one implementation of EFI variable
operations at runtime. This allows us to keep a single (file-scope)
global pointer 'struct efivars', which simplifies access. This will
hopefully dissuade developers from accessing the generic operations
struct directly in the future, as was done in the efivarfs and pstore
code, thereby allowing future code to work with both the generic efivar
ops and the google SMI ops.
This may seem like a step backwards in terms of modularity, but we don't
need to track more than one 'struct efivars' at one time. There is no
synchronisation done between multiple EFI variable operations, and
according to Mike no one is using both the generic EFI var ops and
CONFIG_GOOGLE_SMI simultaneously, though a single kernel build _does_
need to able to support both. It also helps to clearly highlight which
functions form the core of the efivars interface - those that require
access to __efivars.
Reviewed-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Tested-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
There are currently two implementations of the utf16 string functions.
Somewhat confusingly, they've got different names.
Centralise the functions in efi.h.
Reviewed-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Tested-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Reviewed-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
We want to be able to use the utf16 functions that are currently present
in the EFI variables code in platform-specific code as well. Move them to
the kernel core, and in the process rename them to accurately describe what
they do - they don't handle UTF16, only UCS2.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Let's not burden ia64 with checks in the common efivars code that we're not
writing too much data to the variable store. That kind of thing is an x86
firmware bug, plain and simple.
efi_query_variable_store() provides platforms with a wrapper in which they can
perform checks and workarounds for EFI variable storage bugs.
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
The 'CONFIG_' prefix is not implicit in IS_ENABLED().
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Some firmware exhibits a bug where the same VariableName and
VendorGuid values are returned on multiple invocations of
GetNextVariableName(). See,
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47631
As a consequence of such a bug, Andre reports hitting the following
WARN_ON() in the sysfs code after updating the BIOS on his, "Gigabyte
Technology Co., Ltd. To be filled by O.E.M./Z77X-UD3H, BIOS F19e
11/21/2012)" machine,
[ 0.581554] EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17
[ 0.584914] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 0.585639] WARNING: at /home/andre/linux/fs/sysfs/dir.c:536 sysfs_add_one+0xd4/0x100()
[ 0.586381] Hardware name: To be filled by O.E.M.
[ 0.587123] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/firmware/efi/vars/SbAslBufferPtrVar-01f33c25-764d-43ea-aeea-6b5a41f3f3e8'
[ 0.588694] Modules linked in:
[ 0.589484] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.8.0+ #7
[ 0.590280] Call Trace:
[ 0.591066] [<ffffffff81208954>] ? sysfs_add_one+0xd4/0x100
[ 0.591861] [<ffffffff810587bf>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
[ 0.592650] [<ffffffff810588bc>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4c/0x50
[ 0.593429] [<ffffffff8134dd85>] ? strlcat+0x65/0x80
[ 0.594203] [<ffffffff81208954>] sysfs_add_one+0xd4/0x100
[ 0.594979] [<ffffffff81208b78>] create_dir+0x78/0xd0
[ 0.595753] [<ffffffff81208ec6>] sysfs_create_dir+0x86/0xe0
[ 0.596532] [<ffffffff81347e4c>] kobject_add_internal+0x9c/0x220
[ 0.597310] [<ffffffff81348307>] kobject_init_and_add+0x67/0x90
[ 0.598083] [<ffffffff81584a71>] ? efivar_create_sysfs_entry+0x61/0x1c0
[ 0.598859] [<ffffffff81584b2b>] efivar_create_sysfs_entry+0x11b/0x1c0
[ 0.599631] [<ffffffff8158517e>] register_efivars+0xde/0x420
[ 0.600395] [<ffffffff81d430a7>] ? edd_init+0x2f5/0x2f5
[ 0.601150] [<ffffffff81d4315f>] efivars_init+0xb8/0x104
[ 0.601903] [<ffffffff8100215a>] do_one_initcall+0x12a/0x180
[ 0.602659] [<ffffffff81d05d80>] kernel_init_freeable+0x13e/0x1c6
[ 0.603418] [<ffffffff81d05586>] ? loglevel+0x31/0x31
[ 0.604183] [<ffffffff816a6530>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
[ 0.604936] [<ffffffff816a653e>] kernel_init+0xe/0xf0
[ 0.605681] [<ffffffff816ce7ec>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[ 0.606414] [<ffffffff816a6530>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
[ 0.607143] ---[ end trace 1609741ab737eb29 ]---
There's not much we can do to work around and keep traversing the
variable list once we hit this firmware bug. Our only solution is to
terminate the loop because, as Lingzhu reports, some machines get
stuck when they encounter duplicate names,
> I had an IBM System x3100 M4 and x3850 X5 on which kernel would
> get stuck in infinite loop creating duplicate sysfs files because,
> for some reason, there are several duplicate boot entries in nvram
> getting GetNextVariableName into a circle of iteration (with
> period > 2).
Also disable the workqueue, as efivar_update_sysfs_entries() uses
GetNextVariableName() to figure out which variables have been created
since the last iteration. That algorithm isn't going to work if
GetNextVariableName() returns duplicates. Note that we don't disable
EFI variable creation completely on the affected machines, it's just
that any pstore dump-* files won't appear in sysfs until the next
boot.
Reported-by: Andre Heider <a.heider@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com>
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
It's not wise to assume VariableNameSize represents the length of
VariableName, as not all firmware updates VariableNameSize in the same
way (some don't update it at all if EFI_SUCCESS is returned). There
are even implementations out there that update VariableNameSize with
values that are both larger than the string returned in VariableName
and smaller than the buffer passed to GetNextVariableName(), which
resulted in the following bug report from Michael Schroeder,
> On HP z220 system (firmware version 1.54), some EFI variables are
> incorrectly named :
>
> ls -d /sys/firmware/efi/vars/*8be4d* | grep -v -- -8be returns
> /sys/firmware/efi/vars/dbxDefault-pport8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c
> /sys/firmware/efi/vars/KEKDefault-pport8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c
> /sys/firmware/efi/vars/SecureBoot-pport8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c
> /sys/firmware/efi/vars/SetupMode-Information8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c
The issue here is that because we blindly use VariableNameSize without
verifying its value, we can potentially read garbage values from the
buffer containing VariableName if VariableNameSize is larger than the
length of VariableName.
Since VariableName is a string, we can calculate its size by searching
for the terminating NULL character.
Reported-by: Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@suse.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Schroeder <mls@suse.com>
Cc: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
Cc: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com>
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
We know that with some firmware implementations writing too much data to
UEFI variables can lead to bricking machines. Recent changes attempt to
address this issue, but for some it may still be prudent to avoid
writing large amounts of data until the solution has been proven on a
wide variety of hardware.
Crash dumps or other data from pstore can potentially be a large data
source. Add a pstore_module parameter to efivars to allow disabling its
use as a backend for pstore. Also add a config option,
CONFIG_EFI_VARS_PSTORE_DEFAULT_DISABLE, to allow setting the default
value of this paramter to true (i.e. disabled by default).
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Add a new option, CONFIG_EFI_VARS_PSTORE, which can be set to N to
avoid using efivars as a backend to pstore, as some users may want to
compile out the code completely.
Set the default to Y to maintain backwards compatability, since this
feature has always been enabled until now.
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Pull namespace bugfixes from Eric Biederman:
"This is three simple fixes against 3.9-rc1. I have tested each of
these fixes and verified they work correctly.
The userns oops in key_change_session_keyring and the BUG_ON triggered
by proc_ns_follow_link were found by Dave Jones.
I am including the enhancement for mount to only trigger requests of
filesystem modules here instead of delaying this for the 3.10 merge
window because it is both trivial and the kind of change that tends to
bit-rot if left untouched for two months."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
proc: Use nd_jump_link in proc_ns_follow_link
fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules (Part 2).
fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules.
userns: Stop oopsing in key_change_session_keyring
Commit 9f9c9cbb60 ("drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c: fetch dmi version
from SMBIOS if it exists") hoisted the check for "_DMI_" into
dmi_scan_machine(), which means that we don't bother to check for
"_DMI_" at offset 16 in an SMBIOS entry. smbios_present() may also call
dmi_present() for an address where we found "_SM_", if it failed further
validation.
Check for "_DMI_" in smbios_present() before calling dmi_present().
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Reported-by: Tim McGrath <tmhikaru@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Tim Mcgrath <tmhikaru@gmail.com>
Cc: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Joseph was hitting a failure case when mounting efivarfs which
resulted in an incorrect error message,
$ sudo mount -v /sys/firmware/efi/efivars mount: Cannot allocate memory
triggered when efivarfs_valid_name() returned -EINVAL.
Make sure we pass accurate return values up the stack if
efivarfs_fill_super() fails to build inodes for EFI variables.
Reported-by: Joseph Yasi <joe.yasi@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.8
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Stricter validation was introduced with commit da27a24383
("efivarfs: guid part of filenames are case-insensitive") and commit
47f531e8ba ("efivarfs: Validate filenames much more aggressively"),
which is necessary for the guid portion of efivarfs filenames, but we
don't need to be so strict with the first part, the variable name. The
UEFI specification doesn't impose any constraints on variable names
other than they be a NULL-terminated string.
The above commits caused a regression that resulted in users seeing
the following message,
$ sudo mount -v /sys/firmware/efi/efivars mount: Cannot allocate memory
whenever pstore EFI variables were present in the variable store,
since their variable names failed to pass the following check,
/* GUID should be right after the first '-' */
if (s - 1 != strchr(str, '-'))
as a typical pstore filename is of the form, dump-type0-10-1-<guid>.
The fix is trivial since the guid portion of the filename is GUID_LEN
bytes, we can use (len - GUID_LEN) to ensure the '-' character is
where we expect it to be.
(The bogus ENOMEM error value will be fixed in a separate patch.)
Reported-by: Joseph Yasi <joe.yasi@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Joseph Yasi <joe.yasi@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.8
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
UEFI variables are typically stored in flash. For various reasons, avaiable
space is typically not reclaimed immediately upon the deletion of a
variable - instead, the system will garbage collect during initialisation
after a reboot.
Some systems appear to handle this garbage collection extremely poorly,
failing if more than 50% of the system flash is in use. This can result in
the machine refusing to boot. The safest thing to do for the moment is to
forbid writes if they'd end up using more than half of the storage space.
We can make this more finegrained later if we come up with a method for
identifying the broken machines.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Modify the request_module to prefix the file system type with "fs-"
and add aliases to all of the filesystems that can be built as modules
to match.
A common practice is to build all of the kernel code and leave code
that is not commonly needed as modules, with the result that many
users are exposed to any bug anywhere in the kernel.
Looking for filesystems with a fs- prefix limits the pool of possible
modules that can be loaded by mount to just filesystems trivially
making things safer with no real cost.
Using aliases means user space can control the policy of which
filesystem modules are auto-loaded by editing /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf
with blacklist and alias directives. Allowing simple, safe,
well understood work-arounds to known problematic software.
This also addresses a rare but unfortunate problem where the filesystem
name is not the same as it's module name and module auto-loading
would not work. While writing this patch I saw a handful of such
cases. The most significant being autofs that lives in the module
autofs4.
This is relevant to user namespaces because we can reach the request
module in get_fs_type() without having any special permissions, and
people get uncomfortable when a user specified string (in this case
the filesystem type) goes all of the way to request_module.
After having looked at this issue I don't think there is any
particular reason to perform any filtering or permission checks beyond
making it clear in the module request that we want a filesystem
module. The common pattern in the kernel is to call request_module()
without regards to the users permissions. In general all a filesystem
module does once loaded is call register_filesystem() and go to sleep.
Which means there is not much attack surface exposed by loading a
filesytem module unless the filesystem is mounted. In a user
namespace filesystems are not mounted unless .fs_flags = FS_USERNS_MOUNT,
which most filesystems do not set today.
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Pull x86/EFI changes from Peter Anvin:
- Improve the initrd handling in the EFI boot stub by allowing forward
slashes in the pathname - from Chun-Yi Lee.
- Cleanup code duplication in the EFI mixed kernel/firmware code - from
Satoru Takeuchi.
- efivarfs bug fixes for more strict filename validation, with lots of
input from Al Viro.
* 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, efi: remove duplicate code in setup_arch() by using, efi_is_native()
efivarfs: guid part of filenames are case-insensitive
efivarfs: Validate filenames much more aggressively
efivarfs: Use sizeof() instead of magic number
x86, efi: Allow slash in file path of initrd
When (hot)adding memory into system, /sys/firmware/memmap/X/{end, start,
type} sysfs files are created. But there is no code to remove these
files. This patch implements the function to remove them.
We cannot free firmware_map_entry which is allocated by bootmem because
there is no way to do so when the system is up. But we can at least
remember the address of that memory and reuse the storage when the
memory is added next time.
This patch also introduces a new list map_entries_bootmem to link the
map entries allocated by bootmem when they are removed, and a lock to
protect it. And these entries will be reused when the memory is
hot-added again.
The idea is suggestted by Andrew Morton.
NOTE: It is unsafe to return an entry pointer and release the
map_entries_lock. So we should not hold the map_entries_lock
separately in firmware_map_find_entry() and
firmware_map_remove_entry(). Hold the map_entries_lock across find
and remove /sys/firmware/memmap/X operation.
And also, users of these two functions need to be careful to
hold the lock when using these two functions.
[tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com: Hold spinlock across find|remove /sys operation]
[tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com: fix the wrong comments of map_entries]
[tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com: reuse the storage of /sys/firmware/memmap/X/ allocated by bootmem]
[tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com: fix section mismatch problem]
[tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com: fix the doc format in drivers/firmware/memmap.c]
Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
a system in the crash path. Plus a new mountpoint
(/sys/fs/pstore ... makes more sense then /dev/pstore).
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Merge tag 'please-pull-pstore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux
Pull pstore patches from Tony Luck:
"A few fixes to reduce places where pstore might hang a system in the
crash path. Plus a new mountpoint (/sys/fs/pstore ... makes more
sense then /dev/pstore)."
Fix up trivial conflict in drivers/firmware/efivars.c
* tag 'please-pull-pstore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux:
pstore: Create a convenient mount point for pstore
efi_pstore: Introducing workqueue updating sysfs
efivars: Disable external interrupt while holding efivars->lock
efi_pstore: Avoid deadlock in non-blocking paths
pstore: Avoid deadlock in panic and emergency-restart path
[Problem]
efi_pstore creates sysfs entries, which enable users to access to NVRAM,
in a write callback. If a kernel panic happens in an interrupt context,
it may fail because it could sleep due to dynamic memory allocations during
creating sysfs entries.
[Patch Description]
This patch removes sysfs operations from a write callback by introducing
a workqueue updating sysfs entries which is scheduled after the write
callback is called.
Also, the workqueue is kicked in a just oops case.
A system will go down in other cases such as panic, clean shutdown and emergency
restart. And we don't need to create sysfs entries because there is no chance for
users to access to them.
efi_pstore will be robust against a kernel panic in an interrupt context with this patch.
Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
