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Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix efi_call

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* Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> wrote:

> The efi_call assembly code has a slight error that prevents us from
> using arguments 7 and higher, which will be passed in on the stack.
> 
>         mov (%rsp), %rax
>         mov 8(%rax), %rax
> 	...
>         mov %rax, 40(%rsp)
> 
> This code goes and grabs the return address for the current stack frame,
> and puts it on the stack, next the 5th argument for the EFI runtime
> call.  Considering the fact that having the return address in that
> position on the stack makes no sense, I'm guessing that the intent of
> this code was actually to grab an argument off the stack frame for this
> call and place it into the frame for the next one.
> 
> The small change to that offset (i.e. 8(%rax) to 16(%rax)) ensures that
> we grab the 7th argument off the stack, and pass it as the 6th argument
> to the EFI runtime function that we're about to call.  This change gets
> our EFI runtime calls that need to pass more than 6 arguments working
> again.

I suppose the SGI/UV code is the only one using 7 arguments or more? Might make 
sense to point that out in the changelog.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
> Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: x86@kernel.org
> Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_stub_64.S | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_stub_64.S b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_stub_64.S
> index 92723ae..62938ff 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_stub_64.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_stub_64.S
> @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ ENTRY(efi_call)
>  	FRAME_BEGIN
>  	SAVE_XMM
>  	mov (%rsp), %rax
> -	mov 8(%rax), %rax
> +	mov 16(%rax), %rax
>  	subq $48, %rsp
>  	mov %r9, 32(%rsp)
>  	mov %rax, 40(%rsp)

Just curious, how did you find this bug? It's a pretty obscure one, of the 
'developer tears out hairs from frustruation' type ...

Thanks,

	Ingo

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[RFC PATCH 0/2] Fix EFI runtime calls on SGI UV Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> - 2016-05-11 22:00 +0200
  [PATCH 2/2] Fix efi_call Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> - 2016-05-11 22:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix efi_call Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-05-12 08:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix efi_call Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2016-05-12 13:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix efi_call Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> - 2016-05-16 18:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix efi_call Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2016-05-12 13:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix efi_call Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> - 2016-05-16 18:30 +0200

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