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>

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/samsung-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/samsung-laptop.c
index 71623a2ff3e87b0cffe3d5e85ae96480600a7e59..d1f0300531766f64ab741ccbd4d388db0644d427 100644 (file)
--- 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;