[Root Cause]
The root cause is that in FindVariable function, original code logic will traverse all variable stored in variable volatile/non-volatile area. If the non-variable area is full and Linux sets a new variable, the caller of GetNextVariablePtr will get the address of next memory block, but this block doesn't be reserved as RUNTIME attribute. Therefore its corresponding page translation table doesn't exist and causes linux kernel panic.
Note that, Variable Pei driver has not such issue as the flash area is accessed in pre-os environment.All page table entries are filled. The access to next memory block will not cause such issue.
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2. move VariableFormat.h into GUID directory and change the “Signature” field of the VARIABLE_STORE_HEADER to gEfiVariableGuid value.
3. merging VARIABLE_INFO_ENTRY structure into the new Include/Guid/VariableFormat.h
4. change gEfiVariableInfoGuid into gEfiVariableGuid.
5. modify FDF files to use new guid value instead of the original signature.
6. all code related to signature is changed to use guid value.
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PeiGetVariable() and PeiGetNextVariableName() do not check NULL pointer access, not follow spec
[Impaction]
modify the Variable.c file in MdeModulePkg/Universal/Variable/Pei
[Reference Info]
PeiGetVariable() and PeiGetVariableName() do not follow spec
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2) Add HEADER_VALID_ONLY state of variable, which represents only the header is valid and the data/name is stale. This may be caused by incomplete data updating. Adding the state helps to check whether the header is valid. If variable header is valid, then we must skip the data of variable with the valid size. If the header is invalid, we should only skip the header of variable.
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First round of PI enabling work:
1) PiPeiCis changes (CONST, EFI_PEI_FILE_HANDLE.. etc)
2) Make use of FirmwareVolume 2 protocol.
3) Verified for Nt32Pkg and real platform for S3.
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