4.11-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dave Young <dyo...@redhat.com>

commit 7425826f4f7ac60f2538b06a7f0a5d1006405159 upstream.

Sabrina Dubroca reported an early panic:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffff240001
  IP: efi_bgrt_init+0xdc/0x134

  [...]

  ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!

... which was introduced by:

  7b0a911478c7 ("efi/x86: Move the EFI BGRT init code to early init code")

The cause is that on this machine the firmware provides the EFI ACPI BGRT
table even on legacy non-EFI bootups - which table should be EFI only.

The garbage BGRT data causes the efi_bgrt_init() panic.

Add a check to skip efi_bgrt_init() in case non-EFI bootup to work around
this firmware bug.

Tested-by: Sabrina Dubroca <s...@queasysnail.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyo...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <m...@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7b0a911478c7 ("efi/x86: Move the EFI BGRT init code to early init code")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170526113652.21339-6-m...@codeblueprint.co.uk
[ Rewrote the changelog to be more readable. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/platform/efi/efi-bgrt.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi-bgrt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi-bgrt.c
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ void __init efi_bgrt_init(struct acpi_ta
        if (acpi_disabled)
                return;
 
+       if (!efi_enabled(EFI_BOOT))
+               return;
+
        if (table->length < sizeof(bgrt_tab)) {
                pr_notice("Ignoring BGRT: invalid length %u (expected %zu)\n",
                       table->length, sizeof(bgrt_tab));


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