From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: dann frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com>

Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 17:08:09 -0600

Subject: [PATCH] linuxefi: Invalidate i-cache before starting the kernel

We need to flush the memory range of the code we are about to execute

from the instruction cache before we can safely execute it. Not doing

so appears to be the source of rare synchronous exceptions a user

is seeing on a Cortex-A72-based platform while executing the Linux EFI

stub. Notably they seem to correlate with an instruction on a cache

line boundary.

Signed-off-by: dann frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com>

---

 grub-core/loader/efi/linux.c | 4 ++++

 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/grub-core/loader/efi/linux.c b/grub-core/loader/efi/linux.c

index 277f352e0c..e413bdcc23 100644

--- a/grub-core/loader/efi/linux.c

+++ b/grub-core/loader/efi/linux.c

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@

  *  along with GRUB.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

  */

+#include <grub/cache.h>

 #include <grub/err.h>

 #include <grub/mm.h>

 #include <grub/types.h>

@@ -210,6 +211,9 @@ grub_efi_linux_boot (grub_addr_t kernel_addr, grub_size_t kernel_size,

   asm volatile ("cli");

 #endif

+  /* Invalidate the instruction cache */

+  grub_arch_sync_caches((void *)kernel_addr, kernel_size);

+

   hf = (handover_func)((char *)kernel_addr + handover_offset + offset);

   hf (grub_efi_image_handle, grub_efi_system_table, kernel_params);