From 90f3922b018e08594ae6746252984495d3bb8c74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jian J Wang Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 22:02:27 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe: Bypass NULL pointer detection during VBE SHIM installing QemuVideoDxe driver will link VBE SHIM into page 0. If NULL pointer detection is enabled, this driver will fail to load. NULL pointer detection bypassing code is added to prevent such problem during boot. Please note that Windows 7 will try to access VBE SHIM during boot if it's installed, and then cause boot failure. This can be fixed by setting BIT7 of PcdNullPointerDetectionPropertyMask to disable NULL pointer detection after EndOfDxe. As far as we know, there's no other OSs has such issue. Cc: Laszlo Ersek Cc: Jordan Justen Cc: Jiewen Yao Cc: Michael Kinney Cc: Ayellet Wolman Suggested-by: Ayellet Wolman Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1 Signed-off-by: Jian J Wang Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek Reviewed-by: Jordan Justen --- OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe/QemuVideoDxe.inf | 1 + OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe/VbeShim.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe/QemuVideoDxe.inf b/OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe/QemuVideoDxe.inf index 577e07b0a8..ff68c99e96 100644 --- a/OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe/QemuVideoDxe.inf +++ b/OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe/QemuVideoDxe.inf @@ -77,3 +77,4 @@ [Pcd] gOptionRomPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdDriverSupportedEfiVersion gUefiOvmfPkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdOvmfHostBridgePciDevId + gEfiMdeModulePkgTokenSpaceGuid.PcdNullPointerDetectionPropertyMask diff --git a/OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe/VbeShim.c b/OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe/VbeShim.c index e45a08e887..8ba5522cde 100644 --- a/OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe/VbeShim.c +++ b/OvmfPkg/QemuVideoDxe/VbeShim.c @@ -75,6 +75,20 @@ InstallVbeShim ( UINTN Printed; VBE_MODE_INFO *VbeModeInfo; + if ((PcdGet8 (PcdNullPointerDetectionPropertyMask) & (BIT0|BIT7)) == BIT0) { + DEBUG (( + DEBUG_WARN, + "%a: page 0 protected, not installing VBE shim\n", + __FUNCTION__ + )); + DEBUG (( + DEBUG_WARN, + "%a: page 0 protection prevents Windows 7 from booting anyway\n", + __FUNCTION__ + )); + return; + } + Segment0 = 0x00000; SegmentC = 0xC0000; SegmentF = 0xF0000; -- 2.39.2