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<title>xen/pciback: Check PF instead of VF for PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY</title>
<updated>2016-03-16T09:38:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk</name>
<email>konrad.wilk@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-11T21:10:23+00:00</published>
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commit 8d47065f7d1980dde52abb874b301054f3013602 upstream.

Commit 408fb0e5aa7fda0059db282ff58c3b2a4278baa0 (xen/pciback: Don't
allow MSI-X ops if PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY is not set) prevented enabling
MSI-X on passed-through virtual functions, because it checked the VF
for PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY but this is not a valid bit for VFs.

Instead, check the physical function for PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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commit 8d47065f7d1980dde52abb874b301054f3013602 upstream.

Commit 408fb0e5aa7fda0059db282ff58c3b2a4278baa0 (xen/pciback: Don't
allow MSI-X ops if PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY is not set) prevented enabling
MSI-X on passed-through virtual functions, because it checked the VF
for PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY but this is not a valid bit for VFs.

Instead, check the physical function for PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xen/pciback: Don't allow MSI-X ops if PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY is not set.</title>
<updated>2016-03-16T09:38:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk</name>
<email>konrad.wilk@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-02T23:13:27+00:00</published>
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commit 408fb0e5aa7fda0059db282ff58c3b2a4278baa0 upstream.

commit f598282f51 ("PCI: Fix the NIU MSI-X problem in a better way")
teaches us that dealing with MSI-X can be troublesome.

Further checks in the MSI-X architecture shows that if the
PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY bit is turned of in the PCI_COMMAND we
may not be able to access the BAR (since they are memory regions).

Since the MSI-X tables are located in there.. that can lead
to us causing PCIe errors. Inhibit us performing any
operation on the MSI-X unless the MEMORY bit is set.

Note that Xen hypervisor with:
"x86/MSI-X: access MSI-X table only after having enabled MSI-X"
will return:
xen_pciback: 0000:0a:00.1: error -6 enabling MSI-X for guest 3!

When the generic MSI code tries to setup the PIRQ without
MEMORY bit set. Which means with later versions of Xen
(4.6) this patch is not neccessary.

This is part of XSA-157

Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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commit 408fb0e5aa7fda0059db282ff58c3b2a4278baa0 upstream.

commit f598282f51 ("PCI: Fix the NIU MSI-X problem in a better way")
teaches us that dealing with MSI-X can be troublesome.

Further checks in the MSI-X architecture shows that if the
PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY bit is turned of in the PCI_COMMAND we
may not be able to access the BAR (since they are memory regions).

Since the MSI-X tables are located in there.. that can lead
to us causing PCIe errors. Inhibit us performing any
operation on the MSI-X unless the MEMORY bit is set.

Note that Xen hypervisor with:
"x86/MSI-X: access MSI-X table only after having enabled MSI-X"
will return:
xen_pciback: 0000:0a:00.1: error -6 enabling MSI-X for guest 3!

When the generic MSI code tries to setup the PIRQ without
MEMORY bit set. Which means with later versions of Xen
(4.6) this patch is not neccessary.

This is part of XSA-157

Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xen/pciback: For XEN_PCI_OP_disable_msi[|x] only disable if device has MSI(X) enabled.</title>
<updated>2016-03-16T09:38:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk</name>
<email>konrad.wilk@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-01T14:49:47+00:00</published>
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commit 7cfb905b9638982862f0331b36ccaaca5d383b49 upstream.

Otherwise just continue on, returning the same values as
previously (return of 0, and op-&gt;result has the PIRQ value).

This does not change the behavior of XEN_PCI_OP_disable_msi[|x].

The pci_disable_msi or pci_disable_msix have the checks for
msi_enabled or msix_enabled so they will error out immediately.

However the guest can still call these operations and cause
us to disable the 'ack_intr'. That means the backend IRQ handler
for the legacy interrupt will not respond to interrupts anymore.

This will lead to (if the device is causing an interrupt storm)
for the Linux generic code to disable the interrupt line.

Naturally this will only happen if the device in question
is plugged in on the motherboard on shared level interrupt GSI.

This is part of XSA-157

Reviewed-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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commit 7cfb905b9638982862f0331b36ccaaca5d383b49 upstream.

Otherwise just continue on, returning the same values as
previously (return of 0, and op-&gt;result has the PIRQ value).

This does not change the behavior of XEN_PCI_OP_disable_msi[|x].

The pci_disable_msi or pci_disable_msix have the checks for
msi_enabled or msix_enabled so they will error out immediately.

However the guest can still call these operations and cause
us to disable the 'ack_intr'. That means the backend IRQ handler
for the legacy interrupt will not respond to interrupts anymore.

This will lead to (if the device is causing an interrupt storm)
for the Linux generic code to disable the interrupt line.

Naturally this will only happen if the device in question
is plugged in on the motherboard on shared level interrupt GSI.

This is part of XSA-157

Reviewed-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>xen/pciback: Do not install an IRQ handler for MSI interrupts.</title>
<updated>2016-03-16T09:38:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk</name>
<email>konrad.wilk@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-02T22:24:08+00:00</published>
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commit a396f3a210c3a61e94d6b87ec05a75d0be2a60d0 upstream.

Otherwise an guest can subvert the generic MSI code to trigger
an BUG_ON condition during MSI interrupt freeing:

 for (i = 0; i &lt; entry-&gt;nvec_used; i++)
        BUG_ON(irq_has_action(entry-&gt;irq + i));

Xen PCI backed installs an IRQ handler (request_irq) for
the dev-&gt;irq whenever the guest writes PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY
(or PCI_COMMAND_IO) to the PCI_COMMAND register. This is
done in case the device has legacy interrupts the GSI line
is shared by the backend devices.

To subvert the backend the guest needs to make the backend
to change the dev-&gt;irq from the GSI to the MSI interrupt line,
make the backend allocate an interrupt handler, and then command
the backend to free the MSI interrupt and hit the BUG_ON.

Since the backend only calls 'request_irq' when the guest
writes to the PCI_COMMAND register the guest needs to call
XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msi before any other operation. This will
cause the generic MSI code to setup an MSI entry and
populate dev-&gt;irq with the new PIRQ value.

Then the guest can write to PCI_COMMAND PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY
and cause the backend to setup an IRQ handler for dev-&gt;irq
(which instead of the GSI value has the MSI pirq). See
'xen_pcibk_control_isr'.

Then the guest disables the MSI: XEN_PCI_OP_disable_msi
which ends up triggering the BUG_ON condition in 'free_msi_irqs'
as there is an IRQ handler for the entry-&gt;irq (dev-&gt;irq).

Note that this cannot be done using MSI-X as the generic
code does not over-write dev-&gt;irq with the MSI-X PIRQ values.

The patch inhibits setting up the IRQ handler if MSI or
MSI-X (for symmetry reasons) code had been called successfully.

P.S.
Xen PCIBack when it sets up the device for the guest consumption
ends up writting 0 to the PCI_COMMAND (see xen_pcibk_reset_device).
XSA-120 addendum patch removed that - however when upstreaming said
addendum we found that it caused issues with qemu upstream. That
has now been fixed in qemu upstream.

This is part of XSA-157

Reviewed-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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commit a396f3a210c3a61e94d6b87ec05a75d0be2a60d0 upstream.

Otherwise an guest can subvert the generic MSI code to trigger
an BUG_ON condition during MSI interrupt freeing:

 for (i = 0; i &lt; entry-&gt;nvec_used; i++)
        BUG_ON(irq_has_action(entry-&gt;irq + i));

Xen PCI backed installs an IRQ handler (request_irq) for
the dev-&gt;irq whenever the guest writes PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY
(or PCI_COMMAND_IO) to the PCI_COMMAND register. This is
done in case the device has legacy interrupts the GSI line
is shared by the backend devices.

To subvert the backend the guest needs to make the backend
to change the dev-&gt;irq from the GSI to the MSI interrupt line,
make the backend allocate an interrupt handler, and then command
the backend to free the MSI interrupt and hit the BUG_ON.

Since the backend only calls 'request_irq' when the guest
writes to the PCI_COMMAND register the guest needs to call
XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msi before any other operation. This will
cause the generic MSI code to setup an MSI entry and
populate dev-&gt;irq with the new PIRQ value.

Then the guest can write to PCI_COMMAND PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY
and cause the backend to setup an IRQ handler for dev-&gt;irq
(which instead of the GSI value has the MSI pirq). See
'xen_pcibk_control_isr'.

Then the guest disables the MSI: XEN_PCI_OP_disable_msi
which ends up triggering the BUG_ON condition in 'free_msi_irqs'
as there is an IRQ handler for the entry-&gt;irq (dev-&gt;irq).

Note that this cannot be done using MSI-X as the generic
code does not over-write dev-&gt;irq with the MSI-X PIRQ values.

The patch inhibits setting up the IRQ handler if MSI or
MSI-X (for symmetry reasons) code had been called successfully.

P.S.
Xen PCIBack when it sets up the device for the guest consumption
ends up writting 0 to the PCI_COMMAND (see xen_pcibk_reset_device).
XSA-120 addendum patch removed that - however when upstreaming said
addendum we found that it caused issues with qemu upstream. That
has now been fixed in qemu upstream.

This is part of XSA-157

Reviewed-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xen/pciback: Return error on XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msix when device has MSI or MSI-X enabled</title>
<updated>2016-03-16T09:38:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk</name>
<email>konrad.wilk@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-02T23:07:44+00:00</published>
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commit 5e0ce1455c09dd61d029b8ad45d82e1ac0b6c4c9 upstream.

The guest sequence of:

  a) XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msix
  b) XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msix

results in hitting an NULL pointer due to using freed pointers.

The device passed in the guest MUST have MSI-X capability.

The a) constructs and SysFS representation of MSI and MSI groups.
The b) adds a second set of them but adding in to SysFS fails (duplicate entry).
'populate_msi_sysfs' frees the newly allocated msi_irq_groups (note that
in a) pdev-&gt;msi_irq_groups is still set) and also free's ALL of the
MSI-X entries of the device (the ones allocated in step a) and b)).

The unwind code: 'free_msi_irqs' deletes all the entries and tries to
delete the pdev-&gt;msi_irq_groups (which hasn't been set to NULL).
However the pointers in the SysFS are already freed and we hit an
NULL pointer further on when 'strlen' is attempted on a freed pointer.

The patch adds a simple check in the XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msix to guard
against that. The check for msi_enabled is not stricly neccessary.

This is part of XSA-157

Reviewed-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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commit 5e0ce1455c09dd61d029b8ad45d82e1ac0b6c4c9 upstream.

The guest sequence of:

  a) XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msix
  b) XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msix

results in hitting an NULL pointer due to using freed pointers.

The device passed in the guest MUST have MSI-X capability.

The a) constructs and SysFS representation of MSI and MSI groups.
The b) adds a second set of them but adding in to SysFS fails (duplicate entry).
'populate_msi_sysfs' frees the newly allocated msi_irq_groups (note that
in a) pdev-&gt;msi_irq_groups is still set) and also free's ALL of the
MSI-X entries of the device (the ones allocated in step a) and b)).

The unwind code: 'free_msi_irqs' deletes all the entries and tries to
delete the pdev-&gt;msi_irq_groups (which hasn't been set to NULL).
However the pointers in the SysFS are already freed and we hit an
NULL pointer further on when 'strlen' is attempted on a freed pointer.

The patch adds a simple check in the XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msix to guard
against that. The check for msi_enabled is not stricly neccessary.

This is part of XSA-157

Reviewed-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xen/pciback: Return error on XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msi when device has MSI or MSI-X enabled</title>
<updated>2016-03-16T09:38:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk</name>
<email>konrad.wilk@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-03T15:08:22+00:00</published>
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commit 56441f3c8e5bd45aab10dd9f8c505dd4bec03b0d upstream.

The guest sequence of:

 a) XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msi
 b) XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msi
 c) XEN_PCI_OP_disable_msi

results in hitting an BUG_ON condition in the msi.c code.

The MSI code uses an dev-&gt;msi_list to which it adds MSI entries.
Under the above conditions an BUG_ON() can be hit. The device
passed in the guest MUST have MSI capability.

The a) adds the entry to the dev-&gt;msi_list and sets msi_enabled.
The b) adds a second entry but adding in to SysFS fails (duplicate entry)
and deletes all of the entries from msi_list and returns (with msi_enabled
is still set).  c) pci_disable_msi passes the msi_enabled checks and hits:

BUG_ON(list_empty(dev_to_msi_list(&amp;dev-&gt;dev)));

and blows up.

The patch adds a simple check in the XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msi to guard
against that. The check for msix_enabled is not stricly neccessary.

This is part of XSA-157.

Reviewed-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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commit 56441f3c8e5bd45aab10dd9f8c505dd4bec03b0d upstream.

The guest sequence of:

 a) XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msi
 b) XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msi
 c) XEN_PCI_OP_disable_msi

results in hitting an BUG_ON condition in the msi.c code.

The MSI code uses an dev-&gt;msi_list to which it adds MSI entries.
Under the above conditions an BUG_ON() can be hit. The device
passed in the guest MUST have MSI capability.

The a) adds the entry to the dev-&gt;msi_list and sets msi_enabled.
The b) adds a second entry but adding in to SysFS fails (duplicate entry)
and deletes all of the entries from msi_list and returns (with msi_enabled
is still set).  c) pci_disable_msi passes the msi_enabled checks and hits:

BUG_ON(list_empty(dev_to_msi_list(&amp;dev-&gt;dev)));

and blows up.

The patch adds a simple check in the XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msi to guard
against that. The check for msix_enabled is not stricly neccessary.

This is part of XSA-157.

Reviewed-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>efi: Add pstore variables to the deletion whitelist</title>
<updated>2016-03-14T22:10:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Fleming</name>
<email>matt@codeblueprint.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-15T10:34:05+00:00</published>
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commit e246eb568bc4cbbdd8a30a3c11151ff9b7ca7312 upstream.

Laszlo explains why this is a good idea,

 'This is because the pstore filesystem can be backed by UEFI variables,
  and (for example) a crash might dump the last kilobytes of the dmesg
  into a number of pstore entries, each entry backed by a separate UEFI
  variable in the above GUID namespace, and with a variable name
  according to the above pattern.

  Please see "drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c".

  While this patch series will not prevent the user from deleting those
  UEFI variables via the pstore filesystem (i.e., deleting a pstore fs
  entry will continue to delete the backing UEFI variable), I think it
  would be nice to preserve the possibility for the sysadmin to delete
  Linux-created UEFI variables that carry portions of the crash log,
  *without* having to mount the pstore filesystem.'

There's also no chance of causing machines to become bricked by
deleting these variables, which is the whole purpose of excluding
things from the whitelist.

Use the LINUX_EFI_CRASH_GUID guid and a wildcard '*' for the match so
that we don't have to update the string in the future if new variable
name formats are created for crash dump variables.

Reported-by: Laszlo Ersek &lt;lersek@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Jones &lt;pjones@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Peter Jones &lt;pjones@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@srcf.ucam.org&gt;
Cc: "Lee, Chun-Yi" &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;


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commit e246eb568bc4cbbdd8a30a3c11151ff9b7ca7312 upstream.

Laszlo explains why this is a good idea,

 'This is because the pstore filesystem can be backed by UEFI variables,
  and (for example) a crash might dump the last kilobytes of the dmesg
  into a number of pstore entries, each entry backed by a separate UEFI
  variable in the above GUID namespace, and with a variable name
  according to the above pattern.

  Please see "drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c".

  While this patch series will not prevent the user from deleting those
  UEFI variables via the pstore filesystem (i.e., deleting a pstore fs
  entry will continue to delete the backing UEFI variable), I think it
  would be nice to preserve the possibility for the sysadmin to delete
  Linux-created UEFI variables that carry portions of the crash log,
  *without* having to mount the pstore filesystem.'

There's also no chance of causing machines to become bricked by
deleting these variables, which is the whole purpose of excluding
things from the whitelist.

Use the LINUX_EFI_CRASH_GUID guid and a wildcard '*' for the match so
that we don't have to update the string in the future if new variable
name formats are created for crash dump variables.

Reported-by: Laszlo Ersek &lt;lersek@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Jones &lt;pjones@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Peter Jones &lt;pjones@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@srcf.ucam.org&gt;
Cc: "Lee, Chun-Yi" &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;


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<title>efi: Make efivarfs entries immutable by default</title>
<updated>2016-03-14T22:10:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Jones</name>
<email>pjones@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-08T19:48:15+00:00</published>
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commit ed8b0de5a33d2a2557dce7f9429dca8cb5bc5879 upstream.

"rm -rf" is bricking some peoples' laptops because of variables being
used to store non-reinitializable firmware driver data that's required
to POST the hardware.

These are 100% bugs, and they need to be fixed, but in the mean time it
shouldn't be easy to *accidentally* brick machines.

We have to have delete working, and picking which variables do and don't
work for deletion is quite intractable, so instead make everything
immutable by default (except for a whitelist), and make tools that
aren't quite so broad-spectrum unset the immutable flag.

Signed-off-by: Peter Jones &lt;pjones@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lee, Chun-Yi &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@coreos.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;

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commit ed8b0de5a33d2a2557dce7f9429dca8cb5bc5879 upstream.

"rm -rf" is bricking some peoples' laptops because of variables being
used to store non-reinitializable firmware driver data that's required
to POST the hardware.

These are 100% bugs, and they need to be fixed, but in the mean time it
shouldn't be easy to *accidentally* brick machines.

We have to have delete working, and picking which variables do and don't
work for deletion is quite intractable, so instead make everything
immutable by default (except for a whitelist), and make tools that
aren't quite so broad-spectrum unset the immutable flag.

Signed-off-by: Peter Jones &lt;pjones@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lee, Chun-Yi &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@coreos.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>efi: Make our variable validation list include the guid</title>
<updated>2016-03-14T22:10:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Jones</name>
<email>pjones@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-08T19:48:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c85622810f3ee366b54661f9580860160fd82c58'/>
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commit 8282f5d9c17fe15a9e658c06e3f343efae1a2a2f upstream.

All the variables in this list so far are defined to be in the global
namespace in the UEFI spec, so this just further ensures we're
validating the variables we think we are.

Including the guid for entries will become more important in future
patches when we decide whether or not to allow deletion of variables
based on presence in this list.

Signed-off-by: Peter Jones &lt;pjones@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lee, Chun-Yi &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@coreos.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;

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commit 8282f5d9c17fe15a9e658c06e3f343efae1a2a2f upstream.

All the variables in this list so far are defined to be in the global
namespace in the UEFI spec, so this just further ensures we're
validating the variables we think we are.

Including the guid for entries will become more important in future
patches when we decide whether or not to allow deletion of variables
based on presence in this list.

Signed-off-by: Peter Jones &lt;pjones@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lee, Chun-Yi &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@coreos.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>efi: Do variable name validation tests in utf8</title>
<updated>2016-03-14T22:10:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Jones</name>
<email>pjones@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-08T19:48:13+00:00</published>
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commit 3dcb1f55dfc7631695e69df4a0d589ce5274bd07 upstream.

Actually translate from ucs2 to utf8 before doing the test, and then
test against our other utf8 data, instead of fudging it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Jones &lt;pjones@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@coreos.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lee, Chun-Yi &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;

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commit 3dcb1f55dfc7631695e69df4a0d589ce5274bd07 upstream.

Actually translate from ucs2 to utf8 before doing the test, and then
test against our other utf8 data, instead of fudging it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Jones &lt;pjones@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@coreos.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lee, Chun-Yi &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;

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