efi/x86: Avoid physical KASLR on older Dell systems

River reports boot hangs with v6.6 and v6.7, and the bisect points to
commit

  a1b87d54f4e4 ("x86/efistub: Avoid legacy decompressor when doing EFI boot")

which moves the memory allocation and kernel decompression from the
legacy decompressor (which executes *after* ExitBootServices()) to the
EFI stub, using boot services for allocating the memory. The memory
allocation succeeds but the subsequent call to decompress_kernel() never
returns, resulting in a failed boot and a hanging system.

As it turns out, this issue only occurs when physical address
randomization (KASLR) is enabled, and given that this is a feature we
can live without (virtual KASLR is much more important), let's disable
the physical part of KASLR when booting on AMI UEFI firmware claiming to
implement revision v2.0 of the specification (which was released in
2006), as this is the version these systems advertise.

Fixes: a1b87d54f4e4 ("x86/efistub: Avoid legacy decompressor when doing EFI boot")
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218173
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c
index 1bfdae34df3934..da9b7b8d0716df 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c
@@ -307,17 +307,20 @@ static void setup_unaccepted_memory(void)
 		efi_err("Memory acceptance protocol failed\n");
 }
 
+static efi_char16_t *efistub_fw_vendor(void)
+{
+	unsigned long vendor = efi_table_attr(efi_system_table, fw_vendor);
+
+	return (efi_char16_t *)vendor;
+}
+
 static const efi_char16_t apple[] = L"Apple";
 
 static void setup_quirks(struct boot_params *boot_params)
 {
-	efi_char16_t *fw_vendor = (efi_char16_t *)(unsigned long)
-		efi_table_attr(efi_system_table, fw_vendor);
-
-	if (!memcmp(fw_vendor, apple, sizeof(apple))) {
-		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_APPLE_PROPERTIES))
-			retrieve_apple_device_properties(boot_params);
-	}
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_APPLE_PROPERTIES) &&
+	    !memcmp(efistub_fw_vendor(), apple, sizeof(apple)))
+		retrieve_apple_device_properties(boot_params);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -765,11 +768,25 @@ static efi_status_t efi_decompress_kernel(unsigned long *kernel_entry)
 
 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE) && !efi_nokaslr) {
 		u64 range = KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE - LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR - kernel_total_size;
+		static const efi_char16_t ami[] = L"American Megatrends";
 
 		efi_get_seed(seed, sizeof(seed));
 
 		virt_addr += (range * seed[1]) >> 32;
 		virt_addr &= ~(CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN - 1);
+
+		/*
+		 * Older Dell systems with AMI UEFI firmware v2.0 may hang
+		 * while decompressing the kernel if physical address
+		 * randomization is enabled.
+		 *
+		 * https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218173
+		 */
+		if (efi_system_table->hdr.revision <= EFI_2_00_SYSTEM_TABLE_REVISION &&
+		    !memcmp(efistub_fw_vendor(), ami, sizeof(ami))) {
+			efi_debug("AMI firmware v2.0 or older detected - disabling physical KASLR\n");
+			seed[0] = 0;
+		}
 	}
 
 	status = efi_random_alloc(alloc_size, CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN, &addr,