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authorMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>2013-01-03 09:02:37 +0000
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2013-01-30 11:52:11 -0800
commite0094244e41c4d0c7ad69920681972fc45d8ce34 (patch)
tree1908d5420877a04429d68d1e091b6b1eefb11185 /drivers
parent83e68189745ad931c2afd45d8ee3303929233e7f (diff)
samsung-laptop: Disable on EFI hardware
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. 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> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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 71623a2ff3e..d1f03005317 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>
#include <acpi/video.h>
/*
@@ -1544,6 +1545,9 @@ 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;