linux/drivers/firmware/efi
Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) f9e9cc3208 x86/efi: defer freeing of boot services memory
commit a4b0bf6a40 upstream.

efi_free_boot_services() frees memory occupied by EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE
and EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA using memblock_free_late().

There are two issue with that: memblock_free_late() should be used for
memory allocated with memblock_alloc() while the memory reserved with
memblock_reserve() should be freed with free_reserved_area().

More acutely, with CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT=y
efi_free_boot_services() is called before deferred initialization of the
memory map is complete.

Benjamin Herrenschmidt reports that this causes a leak of ~140MB of
RAM on EC2 t3a.nano instances which only have 512MB or RAM.

If the freed memory resides in the areas that memory map for them is
still uninitialized, they won't be actually freed because
memblock_free_late() calls memblock_free_pages() and the latter skips
uninitialized pages.

Using free_reserved_area() at this point is also problematic because
__free_page() accesses the buddy of the freed page and that again might
end up in uninitialized part of the memory map.

Delaying the entire efi_free_boot_services() could be problematic
because in addition to freeing boot services memory it updates
efi.memmap without any synchronization and that's undesirable late in
boot when there is concurrency.

More robust approach is to only defer freeing of the EFI boot services
memory.

Split efi_free_boot_services() in two. First efi_unmap_boot_services()
collects ranges that should be freed into an array then
efi_free_boot_services() later frees them after deferred init is complete.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ec2aaef14783869b3be6e3c253b2dcbf67dbc12a.camel@kernel.crashing.org
Fixes: 916f676f8d ("x86, efi: Retain boot service code until after switching to virtual mode")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2026-03-12 07:09:36 -04:00
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libstub efi/libstub: Fix page table access in 5-level to 4-level paging transition 2025-12-18 14:02:51 +01:00
stmm efi: stmm: Drop unneeded null pointer check 2025-08-26 14:49:42 +02:00
test efi/efi_test: Fix missing pending status update in getwakeuptime 2025-05-21 15:39:30 +02:00
apple-properties.c efi: fix return value of __setup handlers 2022-03-01 09:02:21 +01:00
arm-runtime.c efi: runtime: Fix potential overflow of soft-reserved region size 2024-02-02 19:31:24 +01:00
capsule-loader.c [tree-wide] finally take no_llseek out 2024-09-27 08:18:43 -07:00
capsule.c efi: capsule: clean scatter-gather entries from the D-cache 2020-12-09 08:37:27 +01:00
cper-arm.c EFI/CPER: don't go past the ARM processor CPER record buffer 2026-03-04 07:19:35 -05:00
cper-x86.c efi/cper: Fix cper_ia_proc_ctx alignment 2025-02-23 17:30:04 +01:00
cper.c EFI/CPER: don't go past the ARM processor CPER record buffer 2026-03-04 07:19:35 -05:00
cper_cxl.c efi/cper, cxl: Remove cper_cxl.h 2025-02-06 11:27:16 -07:00
dev-path-parser.c driver core: Constify API device_find_child() and adapt for various usages 2025-01-03 11:19:35 +01:00
earlycon.c fbcon: Increase maximum font width x height to 64 x 128 2024-03-16 08:29:48 +01:00
efi-bgrt.c efi/bgrt: Accept BGRT tables with a version of 0 2020-02-22 23:37:37 +01:00
efi-init.c efi: support booting with kexec handover (KHO) 2025-09-13 17:32:57 -07:00
efi-pstore.c module: Convert symbol namespace to string literal 2024-12-02 11:34:44 -08:00
efi.c efi: Fix reservation of unaccepted memory table 2026-02-26 14:59:44 -08:00
efibc.c efi: efibc: change kmalloc(size * count, ...) to kmalloc_array() 2025-03-10 18:22:47 +01:00
embedded-firmware.c module: Convert symbol namespace to string literal 2024-12-02 11:34:44 -08:00
esrt.c efi/esrt: remove esre_attribute::store() 2024-12-13 08:43:58 +01:00
fdtparams.c move asm/unaligned.h to linux/unaligned.h 2024-10-02 17:23:23 -04:00
Kconfig efi: Explain OVMF acronym in OVMF_DEBUG_LOG help text 2025-08-29 19:02:04 +02:00
Makefile efi: add ovmf debug log driver 2025-07-09 20:31:38 +10:00
memattr.c efi/memattr: Ignore table if the size is clearly bogus 2024-11-15 12:03:29 +01:00
memmap.c efi: Improve logging around memmap init 2025-05-09 11:07:28 +02:00
mokvar-table.c x86/efi: defer freeing of boot services memory 2026-03-12 07:09:36 -04:00
ovmf-debug-log.c efi: add ovmf debug log driver 2025-07-09 20:31:38 +10:00
rci2-table.c efi: rci2: mark bin_attribute as __ro_after_init 2025-02-21 09:20:32 +01:00
reboot.c efi: Fix efi_power_off() not being run before acpi_power_off() when necessary 2022-07-10 17:41:06 +02:00
riscv-runtime.c riscv: dmi: Add SMBIOS/DMI support 2024-06-26 08:02:33 -07:00
runtime-wrappers.c efi: Add missing __nocfi annotations to runtime wrappers 2024-06-05 10:18:58 +02:00
sysfb_efi.c efi: sysfb_efi: fix W=1 warnings when EFI is not set 2025-01-14 08:35:28 +01:00
tpm.c tpm: fix unsigned/signed mismatch errors related to __calc_tpm2_event_size 2024-10-15 20:27:29 +02:00
unaccepted_memory.c mm: rework accept memory helpers 2024-09-01 20:26:07 -07:00
vars.c module: Convert symbol namespace to string literal 2024-12-02 11:34:44 -08:00