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authorMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>2013-01-03 13:02:37 +0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-02-14 22:48:54 +0400
commit7f8d73f9e71d58187f42d26088578be5d2d70859 (patch)
tree65d9bcfbe2afeea8c7370a582caf913e302cf308 /drivers
parent739230186fa9d6999f88c53f0cb6d07ed4234fb0 (diff)
downloadlinux-7f8d73f9e71d58187f42d26088578be5d2d70859.tar.xz
samsung-laptop: Disable on EFI hardware
commit e0094244e41c4d0c7ad69920681972fc45d8ce34 upstream. It has been reported that running this driver on some Samsung laptops with EFI can cause those machines to become bricked as detailed in the following report, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557 There have also been reports of this driver causing Machine Check Exceptions on recent EFI-enabled Samsung laptops, https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121 So disable it if booting from EFI since this driver relies on grovelling around in the BIOS memory map which isn't going to work. Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Cc: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Cc: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/platform/x86/samsung-laptop.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/samsung-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/samsung-laptop.c
index 1afbe5e0a348..de9f432cf22d 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/samsung-laptop.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/samsung-laptop.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
#include <linux/debugfs.h>
#include <linux/ctype.h>
+#include <linux/efi.h>
#if (defined CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO || defined CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO_MODULE)
#include <acpi/video.h>
#endif
@@ -1527,6 +1528,9 @@ static int __init samsung_init(void)
struct samsung_laptop *samsung;
int ret;
+ if (efi_enabled(EFI_BOOT))
+ return -ENODEV;
+
quirks = &samsung_unknown;
if (!force && !dmi_check_system(samsung_dmi_table))
return -ENODEV;