efi/x86: Handle page faults occurring while running EFI runtime services

Memory accesses performed by UEFI runtime services should be limited to:
- reading/executing from EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_CODE memory regions
- reading/writing from/to EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_DATA memory regions
- reading/writing by-ref arguments
- reading/writing from/to the stack.

Accesses outside these regions may cause the kernel to hang because the
memory region requested by the firmware isn't mapped in efi_pgd, which
causes a page fault in ring 0 and the kernel fails to handle it, leading
to die(). To save kernel from hanging, add an EFI specific page fault
handler which recovers from such faults by
1. If the efi runtime service is efi_reset_system(), reboot the machine
   through BIOS.
2. If the efi runtime service is _not_ efi_reset_system(), then freeze
   efi_rts_wq and schedule a new process.

The EFI page fault handler offers us two advantages:
1. Avoid potential hangs caused by buggy firmware.
2. Shout loud that the firmware is buggy and hence is not a kernel bug.

Tested-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Based-on-code-from: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[ardb: clarify commit log]
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
index cec5fae23eb33..eea40d52ca785 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ extern void __init efi_apply_memmap_quirks(void);
 extern int __init efi_reuse_config(u64 tables, int nr_tables);
 extern void efi_delete_dummy_variable(void);
 extern void efi_switch_mm(struct mm_struct *mm);
+extern void efi_recover_from_page_fault(unsigned long phys_addr);
 
 struct efi_setup_data {
 	u64 fw_vendor;