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<title>arm64: efi: Force the use of SetVirtualAddressMap() on eMAG and Altra Max machines</title>
<updated>2023-02-09T11:38:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Darren Hart</name>
<email>darren@os.amperecomputing.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-09T00:28:21+00:00</published>
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Commit 550b33cfd445 ("arm64: efi: Force the use of SetVirtualAddressMap()
on Altra machines") identifies the Altra family via the family field in
the type#1 SMBIOS record. eMAG and Altra Max machines are similarly
affected but not detected with the strict strcmp test.

The type1_family smbios string is not an entirely reliable means of
identifying systems with this issue as OEMs can, and do, use their own
strings for these fields. However, until we have a better solution,
capture the bulk of these systems by adding strcmp matching for "eMAG"
and "Altra Max".

Fixes: 550b33cfd445 ("arm64: efi: Force the use of SetVirtualAddressMap() on Altra machines")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 6.1.x
Cc: Alexandru Elisei &lt;alexandru.elisei@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart &lt;darren@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Tested-by: Justin He &lt;justin.he@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit 550b33cfd445 ("arm64: efi: Force the use of SetVirtualAddressMap()
on Altra machines") identifies the Altra family via the family field in
the type#1 SMBIOS record. eMAG and Altra Max machines are similarly
affected but not detected with the strict strcmp test.

The type1_family smbios string is not an entirely reliable means of
identifying systems with this issue as OEMs can, and do, use their own
strings for these fields. However, until we have a better solution,
capture the bulk of these systems by adding strcmp matching for "eMAG"
and "Altra Max".

Fixes: 550b33cfd445 ("arm64: efi: Force the use of SetVirtualAddressMap() on Altra machines")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 6.1.x
Cc: Alexandru Elisei &lt;alexandru.elisei@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart &lt;darren@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Tested-by: Justin He &lt;justin.he@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>efi: fix potential NULL deref in efi_mem_reserve_persistent</title>
<updated>2023-02-03T13:52:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Gusev</name>
<email>aagusev@ispras.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-03T13:22:13+00:00</published>
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When iterating on a linked list, a result of memremap is dereferenced
without checking it for NULL.

This patch adds a check that falls back on allocating a new page in
case memremap doesn't succeed.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Fixes: 18df7577adae ("efi/memreserve: deal with memreserve entries in unmapped memory")
Signed-off-by: Anton Gusev &lt;aagusev@ispras.ru&gt;
[ardb: return -ENOMEM instead of breaking out of the loop]
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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When iterating on a linked list, a result of memremap is dereferenced
without checking it for NULL.

This patch adds a check that falls back on allocating a new page in
case memremap doesn't succeed.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Fixes: 18df7577adae ("efi/memreserve: deal with memreserve entries in unmapped memory")
Signed-off-by: Anton Gusev &lt;aagusev@ispras.ru&gt;
[ardb: return -ENOMEM instead of breaking out of the loop]
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>efi: Accept version 2 of memory attributes table</title>
<updated>2023-02-02T17:32:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-02T17:30:06+00:00</published>
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UEFI v2.10 introduces version 2 of the memory attributes table, which
turns the reserved field into a flags field, but is compatible with
version 1 in all other respects. So let's not complain about version 2
if we encounter it.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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UEFI v2.10 introduces version 2 of the memory attributes table, which
turns the reserved field into a flags field, but is compatible with
version 1 in all other respects. So let's not complain about version 2
if we encounter it.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>efi: fix userspace infinite retry read efivars after EFI runtime services page fault</title>
<updated>2023-01-03T09:52:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ding Hui</name>
<email>dinghui@sangfor.com.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-27T15:09:36+00:00</published>
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After [1][2], if we catch exceptions due to EFI runtime service, we will
clear EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES bit to disable EFI runtime service, then the
subsequent routine which invoke the EFI runtime service should fail.

But the userspace cat efivars through /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/ will stuck
and infinite loop calling read() due to efivarfs_file_read() return -EINTR.

The -EINTR is converted from EFI_ABORTED by efi_status_to_err(), and is
an improper return value in this situation, so let virt_efi_xxx() return
EFI_DEVICE_ERROR and converted to -EIO to invoker.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 3425d934fc03 ("efi/x86: Handle page faults occurring while running EFI runtime services")
Fixes: 23715a26c8d8 ("arm64: efi: Recover from synchronous exceptions occurring in firmware")
Signed-off-by: Ding Hui &lt;dinghui@sangfor.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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After [1][2], if we catch exceptions due to EFI runtime service, we will
clear EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES bit to disable EFI runtime service, then the
subsequent routine which invoke the EFI runtime service should fail.

But the userspace cat efivars through /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/ will stuck
and infinite loop calling read() due to efivarfs_file_read() return -EINTR.

The -EINTR is converted from EFI_ABORTED by efi_status_to_err(), and is
an improper return value in this situation, so let virt_efi_xxx() return
EFI_DEVICE_ERROR and converted to -EIO to invoker.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 3425d934fc03 ("efi/x86: Handle page faults occurring while running EFI runtime services")
Fixes: 23715a26c8d8 ("arm64: efi: Recover from synchronous exceptions occurring in firmware")
Signed-off-by: Ding Hui &lt;dinghui@sangfor.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>efi: fix NULL-deref in init error path</title>
<updated>2023-01-03T09:52:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johan Hovold</name>
<email>johan+linaro@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-19T09:10:04+00:00</published>
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In cases where runtime services are not supported or have been disabled,
the runtime services workqueue will never have been allocated.

Do not try to destroy the workqueue unconditionally in the unlikely
event that EFI initialisation fails to avoid dereferencing a NULL
pointer.

Fixes: 98086df8b70c ("efi: add missed destroy_workqueue when efisubsys_init fails")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Li Heng &lt;liheng40@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold &lt;johan+linaro@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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In cases where runtime services are not supported or have been disabled,
the runtime services workqueue will never have been allocated.

Do not try to destroy the workqueue unconditionally in the unlikely
event that EFI initialisation fails to avoid dereferencing a NULL
pointer.

Fixes: 98086df8b70c ("efi: add missed destroy_workqueue when efisubsys_init fails")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Li Heng &lt;liheng40@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold &lt;johan+linaro@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>efi: random: fix NULL-deref when refreshing seed</title>
<updated>2022-12-20T02:13:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johan Hovold</name>
<email>johan+linaro@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-16T09:15:14+00:00</published>
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Do not try to refresh the RNG seed in case the firmware does not support
setting variables.

This is specifically needed to prevent a NULL-pointer dereference on the
Lenovo X13s with some firmware revisions, or more generally, whenever
the runtime services have been disabled (e.g. efi=noruntime or with
PREEMPT_RT).

Fixes: e7b813b32a42 ("efi: random: refresh non-volatile random seed when RNG is initialized")
Reported-by: Steev Klimaszewski &lt;steev@kali.org&gt;
Reported-by: Bjorn Andersson &lt;andersson@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Steev Klimaszewski &lt;steev@kali.org&gt;
Tested-by: Andrew Halaney &lt;ahalaney@redhat.com&gt; # sc8280xp-lenovo-thinkpad-x13s
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold &lt;johan+linaro@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
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Do not try to refresh the RNG seed in case the firmware does not support
setting variables.

This is specifically needed to prevent a NULL-pointer dereference on the
Lenovo X13s with some firmware revisions, or more generally, whenever
the runtime services have been disabled (e.g. efi=noruntime or with
PREEMPT_RT).

Fixes: e7b813b32a42 ("efi: random: refresh non-volatile random seed when RNG is initialized")
Reported-by: Steev Klimaszewski &lt;steev@kali.org&gt;
Reported-by: Bjorn Andersson &lt;andersson@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Steev Klimaszewski &lt;steev@kali.org&gt;
Tested-by: Andrew Halaney &lt;ahalaney@redhat.com&gt; # sc8280xp-lenovo-thinkpad-x13s
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold &lt;johan+linaro@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T23:22:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-13T23:22:14+00:00</published>
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

 - update unwinder to cope with module PLTs

 - enable UBSAN on ARM

 - improve kernel fault message

 - update UEFI runtime page tables dump

 - avoid clang's __aeabi_uldivmod generated in NWFPE code

 - disable FIQs on CPU shutdown paths

 - update XOR register usage

 - a number of build updates (using .arch, thread pointer, removal of
   lazy evaluation in Makefile)

 - conversion of stacktrace code to stackwalk

 - findbit assembly updates

 - hwcap feature updates for ARMv8 CPUs

 - instruction dump updates for big-endian platforms

 - support for function error injection

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (31 commits)
  ARM: 9279/1: support function error injection
  ARM: 9277/1: Make the dumped instructions are consistent with the disassembled ones
  ARM: 9276/1: Refactor dump_instr()
  ARM: 9275/1: Drop '-mthumb' from AFLAGS_ISA
  ARM: 9274/1: Add hwcap for Speculative Store Bypassing Safe
  ARM: 9273/1: Add hwcap for Speculation Barrier(SB)
  ARM: 9272/1: vfp: Add hwcap for FEAT_AA32I8MM
  ARM: 9271/1: vfp: Add hwcap for FEAT_AA32BF16
  ARM: 9270/1: vfp: Add hwcap for FEAT_FHM
  ARM: 9269/1: vfp: Add hwcap for FEAT_DotProd
  ARM: 9268/1: vfp: Add hwcap FPHP and ASIMDHP for FEAT_FP16
  ARM: 9267/1: Define Armv8 registers in AArch32 state
  ARM: findbit: add unwinder information
  ARM: findbit: operate by words
  ARM: findbit: convert to macros
  ARM: findbit: provide more efficient ARMv7 implementation
  ARM: findbit: document ARMv5 bit offset calculation
  ARM: 9259/1: stacktrace: Convert stacktrace to generic ARCH_STACKWALK
  ARM: 9258/1: stacktrace: Make stack walk callback consistent with generic code
  ARM: 9265/1: pass -march= only to compiler
  ...
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

 - update unwinder to cope with module PLTs

 - enable UBSAN on ARM

 - improve kernel fault message

 - update UEFI runtime page tables dump

 - avoid clang's __aeabi_uldivmod generated in NWFPE code

 - disable FIQs on CPU shutdown paths

 - update XOR register usage

 - a number of build updates (using .arch, thread pointer, removal of
   lazy evaluation in Makefile)

 - conversion of stacktrace code to stackwalk

 - findbit assembly updates

 - hwcap feature updates for ARMv8 CPUs

 - instruction dump updates for big-endian platforms

 - support for function error injection

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (31 commits)
  ARM: 9279/1: support function error injection
  ARM: 9277/1: Make the dumped instructions are consistent with the disassembled ones
  ARM: 9276/1: Refactor dump_instr()
  ARM: 9275/1: Drop '-mthumb' from AFLAGS_ISA
  ARM: 9274/1: Add hwcap for Speculative Store Bypassing Safe
  ARM: 9273/1: Add hwcap for Speculation Barrier(SB)
  ARM: 9272/1: vfp: Add hwcap for FEAT_AA32I8MM
  ARM: 9271/1: vfp: Add hwcap for FEAT_AA32BF16
  ARM: 9270/1: vfp: Add hwcap for FEAT_FHM
  ARM: 9269/1: vfp: Add hwcap for FEAT_DotProd
  ARM: 9268/1: vfp: Add hwcap FPHP and ASIMDHP for FEAT_FP16
  ARM: 9267/1: Define Armv8 registers in AArch32 state
  ARM: findbit: add unwinder information
  ARM: findbit: operate by words
  ARM: findbit: convert to macros
  ARM: findbit: provide more efficient ARMv7 implementation
  ARM: findbit: document ARMv5 bit offset calculation
  ARM: 9259/1: stacktrace: Convert stacktrace to generic ARCH_STACKWALK
  ARM: 9258/1: stacktrace: Make stack walk callback consistent with generic code
  ARM: 9265/1: pass -march= only to compiler
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_boot_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T22:45:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-13T22:45:29+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 boot updates from Borislav Petkov:
 "A  of early boot cleanups and fixes.

   - Do some spring cleaning to the compressed boot code by moving the
     EFI mixed-mode code to a separate compilation unit, the AMD memory
     encryption early code where it belongs and fixing up build
     dependencies. Make the deprecated EFI handover protocol optional
     with the goal of removing it at some point (Ard Biesheuvel)

   - Skip realmode init code on Xen PV guests as it is not needed there

   - Remove an old 32-bit PIC code compiler workaround"

* tag 'x86_boot_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/boot: Remove x86_32 PIC using %ebx workaround
  x86/boot: Skip realmode init code when running as Xen PV guest
  x86/efi: Make the deprecated EFI handover protocol optional
  x86/boot/compressed: Only build mem_encrypt.S if AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y
  x86/boot/compressed: Adhere to calling convention in get_sev_encryption_bit()
  x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_check_sev_cbit() out of head_64.S
  x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_check_sev_cbit() into .text
  x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_load_idt() out of head_64.S
  x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_load_idt() into .text section
  x86/boot/compressed: Pull global variable reference into startup32_load_idt()
  x86/boot/compressed: Avoid touching ECX in startup32_set_idt_entry()
  x86/boot/compressed: Simplify IDT/GDT preserve/restore in the EFI thunk
  x86/boot/compressed, efi: Merge multiple definitions of image_offset into one
  x86/boot/compressed: Move efi32_pe_entry() out of head_64.S
  x86/boot/compressed: Move efi32_entry out of head_64.S
  x86/boot/compressed: Move efi32_pe_entry into .text section
  x86/boot/compressed: Move bootargs parsing out of 32-bit startup code
  x86/boot/compressed: Move 32-bit entrypoint code into .text section
  x86/boot/compressed: Rename efi_thunk_64.S to efi-mixed.S
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Pull x86 boot updates from Borislav Petkov:
 "A  of early boot cleanups and fixes.

   - Do some spring cleaning to the compressed boot code by moving the
     EFI mixed-mode code to a separate compilation unit, the AMD memory
     encryption early code where it belongs and fixing up build
     dependencies. Make the deprecated EFI handover protocol optional
     with the goal of removing it at some point (Ard Biesheuvel)

   - Skip realmode init code on Xen PV guests as it is not needed there

   - Remove an old 32-bit PIC code compiler workaround"

* tag 'x86_boot_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/boot: Remove x86_32 PIC using %ebx workaround
  x86/boot: Skip realmode init code when running as Xen PV guest
  x86/efi: Make the deprecated EFI handover protocol optional
  x86/boot/compressed: Only build mem_encrypt.S if AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y
  x86/boot/compressed: Adhere to calling convention in get_sev_encryption_bit()
  x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_check_sev_cbit() out of head_64.S
  x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_check_sev_cbit() into .text
  x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_load_idt() out of head_64.S
  x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_load_idt() into .text section
  x86/boot/compressed: Pull global variable reference into startup32_load_idt()
  x86/boot/compressed: Avoid touching ECX in startup32_set_idt_entry()
  x86/boot/compressed: Simplify IDT/GDT preserve/restore in the EFI thunk
  x86/boot/compressed, efi: Merge multiple definitions of image_offset into one
  x86/boot/compressed: Move efi32_pe_entry() out of head_64.S
  x86/boot/compressed: Move efi32_entry out of head_64.S
  x86/boot/compressed: Move efi32_pe_entry into .text section
  x86/boot/compressed: Move bootargs parsing out of 32-bit startup code
  x86/boot/compressed: Move 32-bit entrypoint code into .text section
  x86/boot/compressed: Rename efi_thunk_64.S to efi-mixed.S
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'efi-next-for-v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T22:31:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-13T22:31:47+00:00</published>
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Pull EFI updates from Ard Biesheuvel:
 "Another fairly sizable pull request, by EFI subsystem standards.

  Most of the work was done by me, some of it in collaboration with the
  distro and bootloader folks (GRUB, systemd-boot), where the main focus
  has been on removing pointless per-arch differences in the way EFI
  boots a Linux kernel.

   - Refactor the zboot code so that it incorporates all the EFI stub
     logic, rather than calling the decompressed kernel as a EFI app.

   - Add support for initrd= command line option to x86 mixed mode.

   - Allow initrd= to be used with arbitrary EFI accessible file systems
     instead of just the one the kernel itself was loaded from.

   - Move some x86-only handling and manipulation of the EFI memory map
     into arch/x86, as it is not used anywhere else.

   - More flexible handling of any random seeds provided by the boot
     environment (i.e., systemd-boot) so that it becomes available much
     earlier during the boot.

   - Allow improved arch-agnostic EFI support in loaders, by setting a
     uniform baseline of supported features, and adding a generic magic
     number to the DOS/PE header. This should allow loaders such as GRUB
     or systemd-boot to reduce the amount of arch-specific handling
     substantially.

   - (arm64) Run EFI runtime services from a dedicated stack, and use it
     to recover from synchronous exceptions that might occur in the
     firmware code.

   - (arm64) Ensure that we don't allocate memory outside of the 48-bit
     addressable physical range.

   - Make EFI pstore record size configurable

   - Add support for decoding CXL specific CPER records"

* tag 'efi-next-for-v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi: (43 commits)
  arm64: efi: Recover from synchronous exceptions occurring in firmware
  arm64: efi: Execute runtime services from a dedicated stack
  arm64: efi: Limit allocations to 48-bit addressable physical region
  efi: Put Linux specific magic number in the DOS header
  efi: libstub: Always enable initrd command line loader and bump version
  efi: stub: use random seed from EFI variable
  efi: vars: prohibit reading random seed variables
  efi: random: combine bootloader provided RNG seed with RNG protocol output
  efi/cper, cxl: Decode CXL Error Log
  efi/cper, cxl: Decode CXL Protocol Error Section
  efi: libstub: fix efi_load_initrd_dev_path() kernel-doc comment
  efi: x86: Move EFI runtime map sysfs code to arch/x86
  efi: runtime-maps: Clarify purpose and enable by default for kexec
  efi: pstore: Add module parameter for setting the record size
  efi: xen: Set EFI_PARAVIRT for Xen dom0 boot on all architectures
  efi: memmap: Move manipulation routines into x86 arch tree
  efi: memmap: Move EFI fake memmap support into x86 arch tree
  efi: libstub: Undeprecate the command line initrd loader
  efi: libstub: Add mixed mode support to command line initrd loader
  efi: libstub: Permit mixed mode return types other than efi_status_t
  ...
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Pull EFI updates from Ard Biesheuvel:
 "Another fairly sizable pull request, by EFI subsystem standards.

  Most of the work was done by me, some of it in collaboration with the
  distro and bootloader folks (GRUB, systemd-boot), where the main focus
  has been on removing pointless per-arch differences in the way EFI
  boots a Linux kernel.

   - Refactor the zboot code so that it incorporates all the EFI stub
     logic, rather than calling the decompressed kernel as a EFI app.

   - Add support for initrd= command line option to x86 mixed mode.

   - Allow initrd= to be used with arbitrary EFI accessible file systems
     instead of just the one the kernel itself was loaded from.

   - Move some x86-only handling and manipulation of the EFI memory map
     into arch/x86, as it is not used anywhere else.

   - More flexible handling of any random seeds provided by the boot
     environment (i.e., systemd-boot) so that it becomes available much
     earlier during the boot.

   - Allow improved arch-agnostic EFI support in loaders, by setting a
     uniform baseline of supported features, and adding a generic magic
     number to the DOS/PE header. This should allow loaders such as GRUB
     or systemd-boot to reduce the amount of arch-specific handling
     substantially.

   - (arm64) Run EFI runtime services from a dedicated stack, and use it
     to recover from synchronous exceptions that might occur in the
     firmware code.

   - (arm64) Ensure that we don't allocate memory outside of the 48-bit
     addressable physical range.

   - Make EFI pstore record size configurable

   - Add support for decoding CXL specific CPER records"

* tag 'efi-next-for-v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi: (43 commits)
  arm64: efi: Recover from synchronous exceptions occurring in firmware
  arm64: efi: Execute runtime services from a dedicated stack
  arm64: efi: Limit allocations to 48-bit addressable physical region
  efi: Put Linux specific magic number in the DOS header
  efi: libstub: Always enable initrd command line loader and bump version
  efi: stub: use random seed from EFI variable
  efi: vars: prohibit reading random seed variables
  efi: random: combine bootloader provided RNG seed with RNG protocol output
  efi/cper, cxl: Decode CXL Error Log
  efi/cper, cxl: Decode CXL Protocol Error Section
  efi: libstub: fix efi_load_initrd_dev_path() kernel-doc comment
  efi: x86: Move EFI runtime map sysfs code to arch/x86
  efi: runtime-maps: Clarify purpose and enable by default for kexec
  efi: pstore: Add module parameter for setting the record size
  efi: xen: Set EFI_PARAVIRT for Xen dom0 boot on all architectures
  efi: memmap: Move manipulation routines into x86 arch tree
  efi: memmap: Move EFI fake memmap support into x86 arch tree
  efi: libstub: Undeprecate the command line initrd loader
  efi: libstub: Add mixed mode support to command line initrd loader
  efi: libstub: Permit mixed mode return types other than efi_status_t
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'random-6.2-rc1-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T00:22:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-13T00:22:22+00:00</published>
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Pull random number generator updates from Jason Donenfeld:

 - Replace prandom_u32_max() and various open-coded variants of it,
   there is now a new family of functions that uses fast rejection
   sampling to choose properly uniformly random numbers within an
   interval:

       get_random_u32_below(ceil) - [0, ceil)
       get_random_u32_above(floor) - (floor, U32_MAX]
       get_random_u32_inclusive(floor, ceil) - [floor, ceil]

   Coccinelle was used to convert all current users of
   prandom_u32_max(), as well as many open-coded patterns, resulting in
   improvements throughout the tree.

   I'll have a "late" 6.1-rc1 pull for you that removes the now unused
   prandom_u32_max() function, just in case any other trees add a new
   use case of it that needs to converted. According to linux-next,
   there may be two trivial cases of prandom_u32_max() reintroductions
   that are fixable with a 's/.../.../'. So I'll have for you a final
   conversion patch doing that alongside the removal patch during the
   second week.

   This is a treewide change that touches many files throughout.

 - More consistent use of get_random_canary().

 - Updates to comments, documentation, tests, headers, and
   simplification in configuration.

 - The arch_get_random*_early() abstraction was only used by arm64 and
   wasn't entirely useful, so this has been replaced by code that works
   in all relevant contexts.

 - The kernel will use and manage random seeds in non-volatile EFI
   variables, refreshing a variable with a fresh seed when the RNG is
   initialized. The RNG GUID namespace is then hidden from efivarfs to
   prevent accidental leakage.

   These changes are split into random.c infrastructure code used in the
   EFI subsystem, in this pull request, and related support inside of
   EFISTUB, in Ard's EFI tree. These are co-dependent for full
   functionality, but the order of merging doesn't matter.

 - Part of the infrastructure added for the EFI support is also used for
   an improvement to the way vsprintf initializes its siphash key,
   replacing an sleep loop wart.

 - The hardware RNG framework now always calls its correct random.c
   input function, add_hwgenerator_randomness(), rather than sometimes
   going through helpers better suited for other cases.

 - The add_latent_entropy() function has long been called from the fork
   handler, but is a no-op when the latent entropy gcc plugin isn't
   used, which is fine for the purposes of latent entropy.

   But it was missing out on the cycle counter that was also being mixed
   in beside the latent entropy variable. So now, if the latent entropy
   gcc plugin isn't enabled, add_latent_entropy() will expand to a call
   to add_device_randomness(NULL, 0), which adds a cycle counter,
   without the absent latent entropy variable.

 - The RNG is now reseeded from a delayed worker, rather than on demand
   when used. Always running from a worker allows it to make use of the
   CPU RNG on platforms like S390x, whose instructions are too slow to
   do so from interrupts. It also has the effect of adding in new inputs
   more frequently with more regularity, amounting to a long term
   transcript of random values. Plus, it helps a bit with the upcoming
   vDSO implementation (which isn't yet ready for 6.2).

 - The jitter entropy algorithm now tries to execute on many different
   CPUs, round-robining, in hopes of hitting even more memory latencies
   and other unpredictable effects. It also will mix in a cycle counter
   when the entropy timer fires, in addition to being mixed in from the
   main loop, to account more explicitly for fluctuations in that timer
   firing. And the state it touches is now kept within the same cache
   line, so that it's assured that the different execution contexts will
   cause latencies.

* tag 'random-6.2-rc1-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random: (23 commits)
  random: include &lt;linux/once.h&gt; in the right header
  random: align entropy_timer_state to cache line
  random: mix in cycle counter when jitter timer fires
  random: spread out jitter callback to different CPUs
  random: remove extraneous period and add a missing one in comments
  efi: random: refresh non-volatile random seed when RNG is initialized
  vsprintf: initialize siphash key using notifier
  random: add back async readiness notifier
  random: reseed in delayed work rather than on-demand
  random: always mix cycle counter in add_latent_entropy()
  hw_random: use add_hwgenerator_randomness() for early entropy
  random: modernize documentation comment on get_random_bytes()
  random: adjust comment to account for removed function
  random: remove early archrandom abstraction
  random: use random.trust_{bootloader,cpu} command line option only
  stackprotector: actually use get_random_canary()
  stackprotector: move get_random_canary() into stackprotector.h
  treewide: use get_random_u32_inclusive() when possible
  treewide: use get_random_u32_{above,below}() instead of manual loop
  treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function
  ...
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Pull random number generator updates from Jason Donenfeld:

 - Replace prandom_u32_max() and various open-coded variants of it,
   there is now a new family of functions that uses fast rejection
   sampling to choose properly uniformly random numbers within an
   interval:

       get_random_u32_below(ceil) - [0, ceil)
       get_random_u32_above(floor) - (floor, U32_MAX]
       get_random_u32_inclusive(floor, ceil) - [floor, ceil]

   Coccinelle was used to convert all current users of
   prandom_u32_max(), as well as many open-coded patterns, resulting in
   improvements throughout the tree.

   I'll have a "late" 6.1-rc1 pull for you that removes the now unused
   prandom_u32_max() function, just in case any other trees add a new
   use case of it that needs to converted. According to linux-next,
   there may be two trivial cases of prandom_u32_max() reintroductions
   that are fixable with a 's/.../.../'. So I'll have for you a final
   conversion patch doing that alongside the removal patch during the
   second week.

   This is a treewide change that touches many files throughout.

 - More consistent use of get_random_canary().

 - Updates to comments, documentation, tests, headers, and
   simplification in configuration.

 - The arch_get_random*_early() abstraction was only used by arm64 and
   wasn't entirely useful, so this has been replaced by code that works
   in all relevant contexts.

 - The kernel will use and manage random seeds in non-volatile EFI
   variables, refreshing a variable with a fresh seed when the RNG is
   initialized. The RNG GUID namespace is then hidden from efivarfs to
   prevent accidental leakage.

   These changes are split into random.c infrastructure code used in the
   EFI subsystem, in this pull request, and related support inside of
   EFISTUB, in Ard's EFI tree. These are co-dependent for full
   functionality, but the order of merging doesn't matter.

 - Part of the infrastructure added for the EFI support is also used for
   an improvement to the way vsprintf initializes its siphash key,
   replacing an sleep loop wart.

 - The hardware RNG framework now always calls its correct random.c
   input function, add_hwgenerator_randomness(), rather than sometimes
   going through helpers better suited for other cases.

 - The add_latent_entropy() function has long been called from the fork
   handler, but is a no-op when the latent entropy gcc plugin isn't
   used, which is fine for the purposes of latent entropy.

   But it was missing out on the cycle counter that was also being mixed
   in beside the latent entropy variable. So now, if the latent entropy
   gcc plugin isn't enabled, add_latent_entropy() will expand to a call
   to add_device_randomness(NULL, 0), which adds a cycle counter,
   without the absent latent entropy variable.

 - The RNG is now reseeded from a delayed worker, rather than on demand
   when used. Always running from a worker allows it to make use of the
   CPU RNG on platforms like S390x, whose instructions are too slow to
   do so from interrupts. It also has the effect of adding in new inputs
   more frequently with more regularity, amounting to a long term
   transcript of random values. Plus, it helps a bit with the upcoming
   vDSO implementation (which isn't yet ready for 6.2).

 - The jitter entropy algorithm now tries to execute on many different
   CPUs, round-robining, in hopes of hitting even more memory latencies
   and other unpredictable effects. It also will mix in a cycle counter
   when the entropy timer fires, in addition to being mixed in from the
   main loop, to account more explicitly for fluctuations in that timer
   firing. And the state it touches is now kept within the same cache
   line, so that it's assured that the different execution contexts will
   cause latencies.

* tag 'random-6.2-rc1-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random: (23 commits)
  random: include &lt;linux/once.h&gt; in the right header
  random: align entropy_timer_state to cache line
  random: mix in cycle counter when jitter timer fires
  random: spread out jitter callback to different CPUs
  random: remove extraneous period and add a missing one in comments
  efi: random: refresh non-volatile random seed when RNG is initialized
  vsprintf: initialize siphash key using notifier
  random: add back async readiness notifier
  random: reseed in delayed work rather than on-demand
  random: always mix cycle counter in add_latent_entropy()
  hw_random: use add_hwgenerator_randomness() for early entropy
  random: modernize documentation comment on get_random_bytes()
  random: adjust comment to account for removed function
  random: remove early archrandom abstraction
  random: use random.trust_{bootloader,cpu} command line option only
  stackprotector: actually use get_random_canary()
  stackprotector: move get_random_canary() into stackprotector.h
  treewide: use get_random_u32_inclusive() when possible
  treewide: use get_random_u32_{above,below}() instead of manual loop
  treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function
  ...
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