efi: Failed to lookup EFI memory descriptor

Bug #1925139 reported by Dimitri John Ledkov
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This bug affects 2 people
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shim (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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Xenial
Fix Released
Undecided
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Hirsute
Fix Released
Undecided
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shim-signed (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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Hirsute
Fix Released
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Bug Description

efi: Failed to lookup EFI memory descriptor

is an error message generated by the kernel.

Please pull in https://github.com/rhboot/shim/pull/361/files to fix it.

[Test case]
Verify that 'sudo journalctl -b | grep 'efi: Failed to lookup' returns no results.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in shim (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in shim-signed (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package shim - 15.4-0ubuntu2

---------------
shim (15.4-0ubuntu2) hirsute; urgency=medium

  [ Balint Reczey ]
  * Fix boot on EFI 1.10 machines, for example on some MacBooks (LP: #1925010)

  [ Dimitri John Ledkov ]
  * Fix kernel warning when allocating MOK table (LP: #1925139)
  * Fix booting with shim SBState disabled (LP: #1925140)

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Tue, 20 Apr 2021 15:24:29 +0100

Changed in shim (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package shim-signed - 1.47

---------------
shim-signed (1.47) impish; urgency=medium

  [ Balint Reczey ]
  * Fix boot on EFI 1.10 machines, for example on some MacBooks (LP: #1925010)

  [ Dimitri John Ledkov ]
  * Fix kernel warning when allocating MOK table (LP: #1925139)
  * Fix booting with shim SBState disabled (LP: #1925140)
  * Use -Zxz compression, for compatibility with dpkg in older releases.
    LP: #1925673

shim-signed (1.46) hirsute; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release 15.4 LP: #1921134
  * Ship fb & mm from shim-signed package.
  * Remove shim-canonical-unsigned dependency, now provided by shim
    itself.
  * Generalize attaching externally supplied signatures, to aid building
    with embargoed or MS external signatures.

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Fri, 30 Apr 2021 10:46:25 +0100

Changed in shim-signed (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Dimitri, or anyone else affected,

Accepted shim into hirsute-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shim/15.4-0ubuntu2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-hirsute to verification-done-hirsute. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-hirsute. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Changed in shim (Ubuntu Hirsute):
status: New → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed verification-needed-hirsute
Changed in shim-signed (Ubuntu Hirsute):
status: New → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote :

Hello Dimitri, or anyone else affected,

Accepted shim-signed into hirsute-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shim-signed/1.47 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-hirsute to verification-done-hirsute. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-hirsute. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Steve Langasek (vorlon)
description: updated
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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

Verified for hirsute.

description: updated
description: updated
tags: added: verification-done verification-done-hirsute
removed: verification-needed verification-needed-hirsute
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package shim - 15.4-0ubuntu2

---------------
shim (15.4-0ubuntu2) hirsute; urgency=medium

  [ Balint Reczey ]
  * Fix boot on EFI 1.10 machines, for example on some MacBooks (LP: #1925010)

  [ Dimitri John Ledkov ]
  * Fix kernel warning when allocating MOK table (LP: #1925139)
  * Fix booting with shim SBState disabled (LP: #1925140)

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Tue, 20 Apr 2021 15:24:29 +0100

Changed in shim (Ubuntu Hirsute):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package shim-signed - 1.47

---------------
shim-signed (1.47) impish; urgency=medium

  [ Balint Reczey ]
  * Fix boot on EFI 1.10 machines, for example on some MacBooks (LP: #1925010)

  [ Dimitri John Ledkov ]
  * Fix kernel warning when allocating MOK table (LP: #1925139)
  * Fix booting with shim SBState disabled (LP: #1925140)
  * Use -Zxz compression, for compatibility with dpkg in older releases.
    LP: #1925673

shim-signed (1.46) hirsute; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release 15.4 LP: #1921134
  * Ship fb & mm from shim-signed package.
  * Remove shim-canonical-unsigned dependency, now provided by shim
    itself.
  * Generalize attaching externally supplied signatures, to aid building
    with embargoed or MS external signatures.

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Fri, 30 Apr 2021 10:46:25 +0100

Changed in shim-signed (Ubuntu Hirsute):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for shim has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

Revision history for this message
Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Dimitri, or anyone else affected,

Accepted shim into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shim/15.4-0ubuntu2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Changed in shim (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: New → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed verification-needed-xenial
removed: verification-done
Revision history for this message
Julian Andres Klode (juliank) wrote :

Same binaries across all releases, so the verification on hirsute is valid elsewhere too.

tags: added: verification-done verification-done-xenial
removed: verification-needed verification-needed-xenial
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package shim - 15.4-0ubuntu7

---------------
shim (15.4-0ubuntu7) hirsute; urgency=medium

  * Fix load option parsing, and thus fwupd execution (LP: #1929471) (PR #379)
  * Fix occasional crashes in _relocate() on arm64 (LP: #1928010) (PR #383)
  * Fix accidental deletion of RT variables (LP: #1934506) (PR #387)
  * mok: relax the maximum variable size check (LP: #1934780) (PR #369)

 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden> Wed, 07 Jul 2021 10:57:35 +0200

Changed in shim (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Julian Andres Klode (juliank) wrote :

This fix has been reverted in the latest upstream release, the correct kernel side fix is:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/6/30/179

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