Hi Joey
You are welcome. Thanks to catch the issue and provide the patch.
One thing to clarify: The patch submitter is expected to pass CI, *before*
submit the patch.
The benefit is that: If the patch passes the review, the maintainer may merge
it directly.
There is no need to trigger another round CI-fix, V2 patch submission and
review.
Thank you
Yao, Jiewen
> -----Original Message-----
> From: joeyli <j...@suse.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2022 3:10 PM
> To: devel@edk2.groups.io; Yao, Jiewen <jiewen....@intel.com>
> Cc: Lee, Chun-Yi <joeyli.ker...@gmail.com>; Xu, Min M
> <min.m...@intel.com>; Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com>; Tom
> Lendacky <thomas.lenda...@amd.com>; James Bottomley
> <j...@linux.ibm.com>; Aktas, Erdem <erdemak...@google.com>
> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v2] OvmfPkg/PlatformInitLib: Fix integrity
> checking failed of NvVarStore in some cases
>
> Hi Jiewen,
>
> Sorry for I didn't create tiano CI on github in time. And thanks for your
> help to merge my patch.
>
> I will create tiano CI in next time after getting our Review-by tag.
>
> Thanks!
> Joey Lee
>
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 03:17:42AM +0000, Yao, Jiewen via groups.io wrote:
> > Thanks for the fix.
> > Reviewed-by: Jiewen Yao <jiewen....@intel.com>
> >
> > Question: Have you run tiano CI by yourself, before submit the patch?
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Lee, Chun-Yi <joeyli.ker...@gmail.com>
> > > Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2022 10:27 PM
> > > To: devel@edk2.groups.io
> > > Cc: Xu, Min M <min.m...@intel.com>; Gerd Hoffmann
> > > <kra...@redhat.com>; Yao, Jiewen <jiewen....@intel.com>; Tom
> Lendacky
> > > <thomas.lenda...@amd.com>; James Bottomley <j...@linux.ibm.com>;
> > > Aktas, Erdem <erdemak...@google.com>; Lee, Chun-Yi <j...@suse.com>
> > > Subject: [PATCH v2] OvmfPkg/PlatformInitLib: Fix integrity checking failed
> of
> > > NvVarStore in some cases
> > >
> > > In the commit 4f173db8b4 "OvmfPkg/PlatformInitLib: Add functions for
> > > EmuVariableNvStore", it introduced a PlatformValidateNvVarStore()
> function
> > > for checking the integrity of NvVarStore.
> > >
> > > In some cases when the VariableHeader->StartId is VARIABLE_DATA, the
> > > VariableHeader->State is not just one of the four primary states:
> > > VAR_IN_DELETED_TRANSITION, VAR_DELETED,
> VAR_HEADER_VALID_ONLY,
> > > VAR_ADDED.
> > > The state may combined two or three states, e.g.
> > >
> > > 0x3C = (VAR_IN_DELETED_TRANSITION & VAR_ADDED) &
> VAR_DELETED
> > > or
> > > 0x3D = VAR_ADDED & VAR_DELETED
> > >
> > > When the variable store has those variables, system booting/rebooting
> will
> > > hangs in a ASSERT:
> > >
> > > NvVarStore Variable header State was invalid.
> > > ASSERT
> > > /mnt/working/source_code-
> > > git/edk2/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/Platform.c(819):
> > > ((BOOLEAN)(0==1))
> > >
> > > Adding more log to UpdateVariable() and PlatformValidateNvVarStore(),
> we
> > > saw some variables which have 0x3C or 0x3D state in store.
> > > e.g.
> > >
> > > UpdateVariable(), VariableName=BootOrder
> > > L1871, State=0000003F <-- VAR_ADDED
> > > State &= VAR_DELETED=0000003D
> > > FlushHobVariableToFlash(), VariableName=BootOrder
> > > ...
> > > UpdateVariable(), VariableName=InitialAttemptOrder
> > > L1977, State=0000003F
> > > State &= VAR_IN_DELETED_TRANSITION=0000003E
> > > L2376, State=0000003E
> > > State &= VAR_DELETED=0000003C
> > > FlushHobVariableToFlash(), VariableName=InitialAttemptOrder
> > > ...
> > > UpdateVariable(), VariableName=ConIn
> > > L1977, State=0000003F
> > > State &= VAR_IN_DELETED_TRANSITION=0000003E
> > > L2376, State=0000003E
> > > State &= VAR_DELETED=0000003C
> > > FlushHobVariableToFlash(), VariableName=ConIn
> > > ...
> > >
> > > So, only allowing the four primary states is not enough. This patch
> changes
> > > the falid states list (Follow Jiewen Yao's suggestion):
> > >
> > > 1. VAR_HEADER_VALID_ONLY (0x7F)
> > > - Header added (*)
> > > 2. VAR_ADDED (0x3F)
> > > - Header + data added
> > > 3. VAR_ADDED & VAR_IN_DELETED_TRANSITION (0x3E)
> > > - marked as deleted, but still valid, before new data is added. (*)
> > > 4. VAR_ADDED & VAR_IN_DELETED_TRANSITION & VAR_DELETED (0x3C)
> > > - deleted, after new data is added.
> > > 5. VAR_ADDED & VAR_DELETED (0x3D)
> > > - deleted directly, without new data.
> > > (*) means to support surprise shutdown.
> > >
> > > And removed (VAR_IN_DELETED_TRANSITION) and (VAR_DELETED)
> because
> > > they are
> > > invalid states.
> > >
> > > v2:
> > > Follow Jiewen Yao's suggestion to add the following valid states:
> > > VAR_ADDED & VAR_DELETED (0x3D)
> > > VAR_ADDED & VAR_IN_DELETED_TRANSITION (0x3E)
> > > VAR_ADDED & VAR_IN_DELETED_TRANSITION & VAR_DELETED
> > > (0x3C)
> > > and removed the following invalid states:
> > > VAR_IN_DELETED_TRANSITION
> > > VAR_DELETED
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: "Lee, Chun-Yi" <j...@suse.com>
> > > ---
> > > OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/Platform.c | 9 +++++----
> > > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/Platform.c
> > > b/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/Platform.c
> > > index 77f22de046..6963c47e0b 100644
> > > --- a/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/Platform.c
> > > +++ b/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/Platform.c
> > > @@ -702,10 +702,11 @@ PlatformValidateNvVarStore (
> > >
> > > VariableOffset = NvVarStoreHeader->Size - sizeof
> > > (VARIABLE_STORE_HEADER);
> > > } else {
> > > - if (!((VariableHeader->State == VAR_IN_DELETED_TRANSITION) ||
> > > - (VariableHeader->State == VAR_DELETED) ||
> > > - (VariableHeader->State == VAR_HEADER_VALID_ONLY) ||
> > > - (VariableHeader->State == VAR_ADDED)))
> > > + if (!((VariableHeader->State == VAR_HEADER_VALID_ONLY) ||
> > > + (VariableHeader->State == VAR_ADDED) ||
> > > + (VariableHeader->State == (VAR_ADDED & VAR_DELETED)) ||
> > > + (VariableHeader->State == (VAR_ADDED &
> > > VAR_IN_DELETED_TRANSITION)) ||
> > > + (VariableHeader->State == (VAR_ADDED &
> > > VAR_IN_DELETED_TRANSITION & VAR_DELETED))))
> > > {
> > > DEBUG ((DEBUG_ERROR, "NvVarStore Variable header State was
> > > invalid.\n"));
> > > return FALSE;
> > > --
> > > 2.35.3
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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