From: "Ard Biesheuvel" <ardb@kernel.org>
To: "Mike Rapoport" <rppt@kernel.org>, "Guenter Roeck" <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
"Borislav Petkov" <bp@alien8.de>,
"Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
"Ilias Apalodimas" <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@kernel.org>,
linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/efi: defer freeing of boot services memory
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:31:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f9d55606-178c-4dc3-9f3c-94185ae4cbd2@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ab1U59ye2eBOz6x3@kernel.org>
On Fri, 20 Mar 2026, at 15:08, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 09:06:52PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> > +void __init efi_unmap_boot_services(void)
>> > {
>> > struct efi_memory_map_data data = { 0 };
>> > efi_memory_desc_t *md;
>> > int num_entries = 0;
>> > + int idx = 0;
>> > + size_t sz;
>> > void *new, *new_md;
>> >
>> > /* Keep all regions for /sys/kernel/debug/efi */
>> > if (efi_enabled(EFI_DBG))
>> > return;
>> >
>> > + sz = sizeof(*ranges_to_free) * efi.memmap.nr_map + 1;
>>
>> Was this possibly supposed to be
>> sz = sizeof(*ranges_to_free) * (efi.memmap.nr_map + 1);
>> ^ ^
>> ?
>
> Yes, thanks for catching this.
>
> @Ard, can you please pick the fix:
>
Yep, queued up now.
Thanks for the fix.
> From 8fc5c5e828e7d127e6210bc9952451300591cdce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:59:48 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] x86/efi: efi_unmap_boot_services: fix calculation of
> ranges_to_free size
>
> ranges_to_free array should have enough room to store the entire EFI
> memmap plus an extra element for NULL entry.
> The calculation of this array size wrongly adds 1 to the overall size
> instead of adding 1 to the number of elements.
>
> Add parentheses to properly size the array.
>
> Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> Fixes: a4b0bf6a40f3 ("x86/efi: defer freeing of boot services memory")
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
> ---
> arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> index 35caa5746115..79f0818131e8 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> @@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ void __init efi_unmap_boot_services(void)
> if (efi_enabled(EFI_DBG))
> return;
>
> - sz = sizeof(*ranges_to_free) * efi.memmap.nr_map + 1;
> + sz = sizeof(*ranges_to_free) * (efi.memmap.nr_map + 1);
> ranges_to_free = kzalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!ranges_to_free) {
> pr_err("Failed to allocate storage for freeable EFI regions\n");
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-20 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-25 6:55 Mike Rapoport
2026-03-04 8:17 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-03-04 17:44 ` Dave Hansen
2026-03-04 17:45 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2026-03-05 11:11 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2026-03-06 15:54 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-03-06 15:55 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2026-03-20 4:06 ` Guenter Roeck
2026-03-20 14:08 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-03-20 14:31 ` Ard Biesheuvel [this message]
2026-03-20 14:53 ` Guenter Roeck
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