On arm/virt platform, Chen Xiang reported a Guest crash while
attempting the below steps,
1. Launch the Guest with nvdimm=on
2. Hot-add a NVDIMM dev
3. Reboot
4. Guest boots fine.
5. Reboot again.
6. Guest boot fails.
QEMU_EFI reports the below error:
ProcessCmdAddPointer: invalid pointer value in "etc/acpi/tables"
OnRootBridgesConnected: InstallAcpiTables: Protocol Error
Debugging shows that on first reboot(after hot adding NVDIMM),
Qemu updates the etc/table-loader len,
qemu_ram_resize()
fw_cfg_modify_file()
fw_cfg_modify_bytes_read()
And in fw_cfg_modify_bytes_read() we set the "callback_opaque" for
the key entry to NULL. Because of this, on the second reboot,
virt_acpi_build_update() is called with a NULL "build_state" and
returns without updating the ACPI tables. This seems to be
upsetting the firmware.
To fix this, don't change the callback_opaque in fw_cfg_modify_bytes_read().
Fixes: bdbb5b1706d165 ("fw_cfg: add fw_cfg_machine_reset function")
Reported-by: chenxiang <chenxiang66@hisilicon.com>
Acked-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Shameer Kolothum <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com>
Message-ID: <20241203131806.37548-1-shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
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