lwn.git/arch/x86/boot, branch v3.10.63

x86/efi: Include a .bss section within the PE/COFF headers

2014-07-31T19:53:52+00:00

commit c7fb93ec51d462ec3540a729ba446663c26a0505 upstream. The PE/COFF headers currently describe only the initialised-data portions of the image, and result in no space being allocated for the uninitialised-data portions. Consequently, the EFI boot stub will end up overwriting unexpected areas of memory, with unpredictable results. Fix by including a .bss section in the PE/COFF headers (functionally equivalent to the init_size field in the bzImage header). Signed-off-by: Michael Brown Cc: Thomas Bächler Cc: Josh Boyer Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/efi: Correct EFI boot stub use of code32_start

2014-05-06T14:55:30+00:00

commit 7e8213c1f3acc064aef37813a39f13cbfe7c3ce7 upstream. code32_start should point at the start of the protected mode code, and *not* at the beginning of the bzImage. This is much easier to do in assembly so document that callers of make_boot_params() need to fill out code32_start. The fallout from this bug is that we would end up relocating the image but copying the image at some offset, resulting in what appeared to be memory corruption. Reported-by: Thomas Bächler Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86, build: Pass in additional -mno-mmx, -mno-sse options

2013-12-20T15:45:10+00:00

commit 8b3b005d675726e38bc504d2e35a991e55819155 upstream. In checkin 5551a34e5aea x86-64, build: Always pass in -mno-sse we unconditionally added -mno-sse to the main build, to keep newer compilers from generating SSE instructions from autovectorization. However, this did not extend to the special environments (arch/x86/boot, arch/x86/boot/compressed, and arch/x86/realmode/rm). Add -mno-sse to the compiler command line for these environments, and add -mno-mmx to all the environments as well, as we don't want a compiler to generate MMX code either. This patch also removes a $(cc-option) call for -m32, since we have long since stopped supporting compilers too old for the -m32 option, and in fact hardcode it in other places in the Makefiles. Reported-by: Kevin B. Smith Cc: Sunil K. Pandey Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Cc: H. J. Lu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-j21wzqv790q834n7yc6g80j1@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86, efi: retry ExitBootServices() on failure

2013-07-22T01:21:27+00:00

commit d3768d885c6ccbf8a137276843177d76c49033a7 upstream. ExitBootServices is absolutely supposed to return a failure if any ExitBootServices event handler changes the memory map. Basically the get_map loop should run again if ExitBootServices returns an error the first time. I would say it would be fair that if ExitBootServices gives an error the second time then Linux would be fine in returning control back to BIOS. The second change is the following line: again: size += sizeof(*mem_map) * 2; Originally you were incrementing it by the size of one memory map entry. The issue here is all related to the low_alloc routine you are using. In this routine you are making allocations to get the memory map itself. Doing this allocation or allocations can affect the memory map by more than one record. [ mfleming - changelog, code style ] Signed-off-by: Zach Bobroff Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Modify UEFI anti-bricking code

2013-06-10T20:59:37+00:00

This patch reworks the UEFI anti-bricking code, including an effective reversion of cc5a080c and 31ff2f20. It turns out that calling QueryVariableInfo() from boot services results in some firmware implementations jumping to physical addresses even after entering virtual mode, so until we have 1:1 mappings for UEFI runtime space this isn't going to work so well. Reverting these gets us back to the situation where we'd refuse to create variables on some systems because they classify deleted variables as "used" until the firmware triggers a garbage collection run, which they won't do until they reach a lower threshold. This results in it being impossible to install a bootloader, which is unhelpful. Feedback from Samsung indicates that the firmware doesn't need more than 5KB of storage space for its own purposes, so that seems like a reasonable threshold. However, there's still no guarantee that a platform will attempt garbage collection merely because it drops below this threshold. It seems that this is often only triggered if an attempt to write generates a genuine EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES error. We can force that by attempting to create a variable larger than the remaining space. This should fail, but if it somehow succeeds we can then immediately delete it. I've tested this on the UEFI machines I have available, but I don't have a Samsung and so can't verify that it avoids the bricking problem. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Y [ dummy variable cleanup ] Cc: Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming

Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2013-04-30T15:34:07+00:00

Pull x86 cleanups from Ingo Molnar: "Misc smaller cleanups" * 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/lib: Fix spelling, put space between a numeral and its units x86/lib: Fix spelling in the comments x86, quirks: Shut-up a long-standing gcc warning x86, msr: Unify variable names x86-64, docs, mm: Add vsyscall range to virtual address space layout x86: Drop KERNEL_IMAGE_START x86_64: Use __BOOT_DS instead_of __KERNEL_DS for safety

Merge tag 'efi-urgent' into x86/urgent

2013-04-25T21:00:22+00:00

* The EFI variable anti-bricking algorithm merged in -rc8 broke booting on some Apple machines because they implement EFI spec 1.10, which doesn't provide a QueryVariableInfo() runtime function and the logic used to check for the existence of that function was insufficient. Fix from Josh Boyer. * The anti-bricking algorithm also introduced a compiler warning on 32-bit. Fix from Borislav Petkov. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

efi: Check EFI revision in setup_efi_vars

2013-04-24T15:19:01+00:00

We need to check the runtime sys_table for the EFI version the firmware specifies instead of just checking for a NULL QueryVariableInfo. Older implementations of EFI don't have QueryVariableInfo but the runtime is a smaller structure, so the pointer to it may be pointing off into garbage. This is apparently the case with several Apple firmwares that support EFI 1.10, and the current check causes them to no longer boot. Fix based on a suggestion from Matthew Garrett. Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming

x86, efi: Fix a build warning

2013-04-24T10:57:15+00:00

Fix this: arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c: In function ‘setup_efi_vars’: arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c:269:2: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘efi_call_phys’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default] In file included from arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c:12:0: /w/kernel/linux/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h:8:33: note: expected ‘void *’ but argument is of type ‘long unsigned int’ after cc5a080c5d40 ("efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code"). Reported-by: Paul Bolle Cc: Matthew Garrett Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming

Merge remote-tracking branch 'efi/urgent' into x86/urgent

2013-04-20T00:09:03+00:00

Matt Fleming (1): x86, efivars: firmware bug workarounds should be in platform code Matthew Garrett (3): Move utf16 functions to kernel core and rename efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code efi: Distinguish between "remaining space" and actually used space Richard Weinberger (2): x86,efi: Check max_size only if it is non-zero. x86,efi: Implement efi_no_storage_paranoia parameter Sergey Vlasov (2): x86/Kconfig: Make EFI select UCS2_STRING efi: Export efi_query_variable_store() for efivars.ko Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin