[SRU B/D/E/F V2 1/1] efi: efi_get_memory_map -- increase map headroom

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Fri Nov 8 10:25:46 UTC 2019


We are seeing some EFI based machines failing to boot hard in the EFI
stub:

    exit_boot() failed!
    efi_main() failed!

This seems to occur when the bootloader (grub2 in this case) has had
to manipulate some additional files due to a change in the way MAAS
boots the machines.  We tracked this down to the memory map dance
efi_get_memory_map().  Basically we attempt to close boot services and
it informs us it cannot do so because it failed to record the updated
memory map.  This occurs when there is insufficient space in the passed
memory map buffer to record changes during the operation.  At the point
when this occurs we are unable to call the allocation functions to
reallocate the buffer so we panic.

To avoid this we allocate some additional entries in the buffer to cover
any additional entries.  This headroom is currently insufficient for
these machines under this use case.  Increase EFI_MMAP_NR_SLACK_SLOTS to
provide space for more memory map modifications.

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1851810
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c
index 39f87e6dac5c..957dff5a26a2 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ int __pure novamap(void)
 	return __novamap;
 }
 
-#define EFI_MMAP_NR_SLACK_SLOTS	8
+#define EFI_MMAP_NR_SLACK_SLOTS	16
 
 struct file_info {
 	efi_file_handle_t *handle;
-- 
2.20.1




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