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<title>x86/efi: Make the deprecated EFI handover protocol optional</title>
<updated>2022-11-24T07:57:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2022-11-22T16:10:17+00:00</published>
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The EFI handover protocol permits a bootloader to invoke the kernel as a
EFI PE/COFF application, while passing a bootparams struct as a third
argument to the entrypoint function call.

This has no basis in the UEFI specification, and there are better ways
to pass additional data to a UEFI application (UEFI configuration
tables, UEFI variables, UEFI protocols) than going around the
StartImage() boot service and jumping to a fixed offset in the loaded
image, just to call a different function that takes a third parameter.

The reason for handling struct bootparams in the bootloader was that the
EFI stub could only load initrd images from the EFI system partition,
and so passing it via struct bootparams was needed for loaders like
GRUB, which pass the initrd in memory, and may load it from anywhere,
including from the network. Another motivation was EFI mixed mode, which
could not use the initrd loader in the EFI stub at all due to 32/64 bit
incompatibilities (which will be fixed shortly [0]), and could not
invoke the ordinary PE/COFF entry point either, for the same reasons.

Given that loaders such as GRUB already carried the bootparams handling
in order to implement non-EFI boot, retaining that code and just passing
bootparams to the EFI stub was a reasonable choice (although defining an
alternate entrypoint could have been avoided.) However, the GRUB side
changes never made it upstream, and are only shipped by some of the
distros in their downstream versions.

In the meantime, EFI support has been added to other Linux architecture
ports, as well as to U-boot and systemd, including arch-agnostic methods
for passing initrd images in memory [1], and for doing mixed mode boot
[2], none of them requiring anything like the EFI handover protocol. So
given that only out-of-tree distro GRUB relies on this, let's permit it
to be omitted from the build, in preparation for retiring it completely
at a later date. (Note that systemd-boot does have an implementation as
well, but only uses it as a fallback for booting images that do not
implement the LoadFile2 based initrd loading method, i.e., v5.8 or older)

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220927085842.2860715-1-ardb@kernel.org/
[1] ec93fc371f01 ("efi/libstub: Add support for loading the initrd from a device path")
[2] 97aa276579b2 ("efi/x86: Add true mixed mode entry point into .compat section")

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221122161017.2426828-18-ardb@kernel.org
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The EFI handover protocol permits a bootloader to invoke the kernel as a
EFI PE/COFF application, while passing a bootparams struct as a third
argument to the entrypoint function call.

This has no basis in the UEFI specification, and there are better ways
to pass additional data to a UEFI application (UEFI configuration
tables, UEFI variables, UEFI protocols) than going around the
StartImage() boot service and jumping to a fixed offset in the loaded
image, just to call a different function that takes a third parameter.

The reason for handling struct bootparams in the bootloader was that the
EFI stub could only load initrd images from the EFI system partition,
and so passing it via struct bootparams was needed for loaders like
GRUB, which pass the initrd in memory, and may load it from anywhere,
including from the network. Another motivation was EFI mixed mode, which
could not use the initrd loader in the EFI stub at all due to 32/64 bit
incompatibilities (which will be fixed shortly [0]), and could not
invoke the ordinary PE/COFF entry point either, for the same reasons.

Given that loaders such as GRUB already carried the bootparams handling
in order to implement non-EFI boot, retaining that code and just passing
bootparams to the EFI stub was a reasonable choice (although defining an
alternate entrypoint could have been avoided.) However, the GRUB side
changes never made it upstream, and are only shipped by some of the
distros in their downstream versions.

In the meantime, EFI support has been added to other Linux architecture
ports, as well as to U-boot and systemd, including arch-agnostic methods
for passing initrd images in memory [1], and for doing mixed mode boot
[2], none of them requiring anything like the EFI handover protocol. So
given that only out-of-tree distro GRUB relies on this, let's permit it
to be omitted from the build, in preparation for retiring it completely
at a later date. (Note that systemd-boot does have an implementation as
well, but only uses it as a fallback for booting images that do not
implement the LoadFile2 based initrd loading method, i.e., v5.8 or older)

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220927085842.2860715-1-ardb@kernel.org/
[1] ec93fc371f01 ("efi/libstub: Add support for loading the initrd from a device path")
[2] 97aa276579b2 ("efi/x86: Add true mixed mode entry point into .compat section")

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221122161017.2426828-18-ardb@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>x86/build: Declutter the build output</title>
<updated>2020-08-20T06:17:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-20T06:17:40+00:00</published>
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We have some really ancient debug printouts in the x86 boot image build code:

  Setup is 14108 bytes (padded to 14336 bytes).
  System is 8802 kB
  CRC 27e909d4

None of these ever helped debug any sort of breakage that I know of, and they
clutter the build output.

Remove them - if anyone needs the see the various interim stages of this to
debug an obscure bug, they can add these printfs and more.

We still keep this one:

  Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready  (#19)

As a sentimental leftover, plus the '#19' build count tag is mildly useful.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: x86@kernel.org
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We have some really ancient debug printouts in the x86 boot image build code:

  Setup is 14108 bytes (padded to 14336 bytes).
  System is 8802 kB
  CRC 27e909d4

None of these ever helped debug any sort of breakage that I know of, and they
clutter the build output.

Remove them - if anyone needs the see the various interim stages of this to
debug an obscure bug, they can add these printfs and more.

We still keep this one:

  Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready  (#19)

As a sentimental leftover, plus the '#19' build count tag is mildly useful.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: x86@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Mark global variables as static</title>
<updated>2020-05-14T09:11:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arvind Sankar</name>
<email>nivedita@alum.mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-11T22:58:49+00:00</published>
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Mike Lothian reports that after commit
  964124a97b97 ("efi/x86: Remove extra headroom for setup block")
gcc 10.1.0 fails with

  HOSTCC  arch/x86/boot/tools/build
  /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.1.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
  error: linker defined: multiple definition of '_end'
  /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.1.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
  /tmp/ccEkW0jM.o: previous definition here
  collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
  make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.host:103: arch/x86/boot/tools/build] Error 1
  make: *** [arch/x86/Makefile:303: bzImage] Error 2

The issue is with the _end variable that was added, to hold the end of
the compressed kernel from zoffsets.h (ZO__end). The name clashes with
the linker-defined _end symbol that indicates the end of the build
program itself.

Even when there is no compile-time error, this causes build to use
memory past the end of its .bss section.

To solve this, mark _end as static, and for symmetry, mark the rest of
the variables that keep track of symbols from the compressed kernel as
static as well.

Fixes: 964124a97b97 ("efi/x86: Remove extra headroom for setup block")
Reported-by: Mike Lothian &lt;mike@fireburn.co.uk&gt;
Tested-by: Mike Lothian &lt;mike@fireburn.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar &lt;nivedita@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200511225849.1311869-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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Mike Lothian reports that after commit
  964124a97b97 ("efi/x86: Remove extra headroom for setup block")
gcc 10.1.0 fails with

  HOSTCC  arch/x86/boot/tools/build
  /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.1.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
  error: linker defined: multiple definition of '_end'
  /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.1.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
  /tmp/ccEkW0jM.o: previous definition here
  collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
  make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.host:103: arch/x86/boot/tools/build] Error 1
  make: *** [arch/x86/Makefile:303: bzImage] Error 2

The issue is with the _end variable that was added, to hold the end of
the compressed kernel from zoffsets.h (ZO__end). The name clashes with
the linker-defined _end symbol that indicates the end of the build
program itself.

Even when there is no compile-time error, this causes build to use
memory past the end of its .bss section.

To solve this, mark _end as static, and for symmetry, mark the rest of
the variables that keep track of symbols from the compressed kernel as
static as well.

Fixes: 964124a97b97 ("efi/x86: Remove extra headroom for setup block")
Reported-by: Mike Lothian &lt;mike@fireburn.co.uk&gt;
Tested-by: Mike Lothian &lt;mike@fireburn.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar &lt;nivedita@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200511225849.1311869-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'spdx-5.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx</title>
<updated>2020-04-03T20:12:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-03T20:12:26+00:00</published>
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Pull SPDX updates from Greg KH:
 "Here are three SPDX patches for 5.7-rc1.

  One fixes up the SPDX tag for a single driver, while the other two go
  through the tree and add SPDX tags for all of the .gitignore files as
  needed.

  Nothing too complex, but you will get a merge conflict with your
  current tree, that should be trivial to handle (one file modified by
  two things, one file deleted.)

  All three of these have been in linux-next for a while, with no
  reported issues other than the merge conflict"

* tag 'spdx-5.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx:
  ASoC: MT6660: make spdxcheck.py happy
  .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier
  .gitignore: remove too obvious comments
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Pull SPDX updates from Greg KH:
 "Here are three SPDX patches for 5.7-rc1.

  One fixes up the SPDX tag for a single driver, while the other two go
  through the tree and add SPDX tags for all of the .gitignore files as
  needed.

  Nothing too complex, but you will get a merge conflict with your
  current tree, that should be trivial to handle (one file modified by
  two things, one file deleted.)

  All three of these have been in linux-next for a while, with no
  reported issues other than the merge conflict"

* tag 'spdx-5.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx:
  ASoC: MT6660: make spdxcheck.py happy
  .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier
  .gitignore: remove too obvious comments
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<entry>
<title>.gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier</title>
<updated>2020-03-25T10:50:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-03T13:35:59+00:00</published>
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Add SPDX License Identifier to all .gitignore files.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Add SPDX License Identifier to all .gitignore files.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>efi/x86: Don't relocate the kernel unless necessary</title>
<updated>2020-03-08T08:58:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arvind Sankar</name>
<email>nivedita@alum.mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-08T08:08:50+00:00</published>
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Add alignment slack to the PE image size, so that we can realign the
decompression buffer within the space allocated for the image.

Only relocate the kernel if it has been loaded at an unsuitable address:

 - Below LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR, or
 - Above 64T for 64-bit and 512MiB for 32-bit

For 32-bit, the upper limit is conservative, but the exact limit can be
difficult to calculate.

Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar &lt;nivedita@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200303221205.4048668-6-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200308080859.21568-20-ardb@kernel.org
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Add alignment slack to the PE image size, so that we can realign the
decompression buffer within the space allocated for the image.

Only relocate the kernel if it has been loaded at an unsuitable address:

 - Below LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR, or
 - Above 64T for 64-bit and 512MiB for 32-bit

For 32-bit, the upper limit is conservative, but the exact limit can be
difficult to calculate.

Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar &lt;nivedita@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200303221205.4048668-6-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200308080859.21568-20-ardb@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>efi/x86: Remove extra headroom for setup block</title>
<updated>2020-03-08T08:58:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arvind Sankar</name>
<email>nivedita@alum.mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-08T08:08:49+00:00</published>
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The following commit:

  223e3ee56f77 ("efi/x86: add headroom to decompressor BSS to account for setup block")

added headroom to the PE image to account for the setup block, which
wasn't used for the decompression buffer.

Now that the decompression buffer is located at the start of the image,
and includes the setup block, this is no longer required.

Add a check to make sure that the head section of the compressed kernel
won't overwrite itself while relocating. This is only for
future-proofing as with current limits on the setup and the actual size
of the head section, this can never happen.

Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar &lt;nivedita@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200303221205.4048668-5-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200308080859.21568-19-ardb@kernel.org
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The following commit:

  223e3ee56f77 ("efi/x86: add headroom to decompressor BSS to account for setup block")

added headroom to the PE image to account for the setup block, which
wasn't used for the decompression buffer.

Now that the decompression buffer is located at the start of the image,
and includes the setup block, this is no longer required.

Add a check to make sure that the head section of the compressed kernel
won't overwrite itself while relocating. This is only for
future-proofing as with current limits on the setup and the actual size
of the head section, this can never happen.

Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar &lt;nivedita@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200303221205.4048668-5-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200308080859.21568-19-ardb@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>efi/x86: Add true mixed mode entry point into .compat section</title>
<updated>2020-02-23T20:59:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-12T11:18:17+00:00</published>
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Currently, mixed mode is closely tied to the EFI handover protocol
and relies on intimate knowledge of the bootparams structure, setup
header etc, all of which are rather byzantine and entirely specific
to x86.

Even though no other EFI supported architectures are currently known
that could support something like mixed mode, it still makes sense to
abstract a bit from this, and make it part of a generic Linux on EFI
boot protocol.

To that end, add a .compat section to the mixed mode binary, and populate
it with the PE machine type and entry point address, allowing firmware
implementations to match it to their native machine type, and invoke
non-native binaries using a secondary entry point.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently, mixed mode is closely tied to the EFI handover protocol
and relies on intimate knowledge of the bootparams structure, setup
header etc, all of which are rather byzantine and entirely specific
to x86.

Even though no other EFI supported architectures are currently known
that could support something like mixed mode, it still makes sense to
abstract a bit from this, and make it part of a generic Linux on EFI
boot protocol.

To that end, add a .compat section to the mixed mode binary, and populate
it with the PE machine type and entry point address, allowing firmware
implementations to match it to their native machine type, and invoke
non-native binaries using a secondary entry point.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>efi/x86: Drop redundant .bss section</title>
<updated>2020-02-23T20:59:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-12T10:26:10+00:00</published>
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In commit

  c7fb93ec51d462ec ("x86/efi: Include a .bss section within the PE/COFF headers")

we added a separate .bss section to the PE/COFF header of the compressed
kernel describing the static memory footprint of the decompressor, to
ensure that it has enough headroom to decompress itself.

We can achieve the exact same result by increasing the virtual size of
the .text section, without changing the raw size, which, as per the
PE/COFF specification, requires the loader to zero initialize the delta.

Doing so frees up a slot in the section table, which we will use later
to describe the mixed mode entrypoint.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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In commit

  c7fb93ec51d462ec ("x86/efi: Include a .bss section within the PE/COFF headers")

we added a separate .bss section to the PE/COFF header of the compressed
kernel describing the static memory footprint of the decompressor, to
ensure that it has enough headroom to decompress itself.

We can achieve the exact same result by increasing the virtual size of
the .text section, without changing the raw size, which, as per the
PE/COFF specification, requires the loader to zero initialize the delta.

Doing so frees up a slot in the section table, which we will use later
to describe the mixed mode entrypoint.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>efi/x86: add headroom to decompressor BSS to account for setup block</title>
<updated>2020-02-23T20:59:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2020-02-22T14:15:50+00:00</published>
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In the bootparams struct, init_size defines the static footprint of the
bzImage, counted from the start of the kernel image, i.e., startup_32().

The PE/COFF metadata declares the same size for the entire image, but this
time, the image includes the setup block as well, and so the space reserved
by UEFI is a bit too small. This usually doesn't matter, since we normally
relocate the kernel into a memory allocation of the correct size.
But in the unlikely case that the image happens to be loaded at exactly
the preferred offset, we skip this relocation, and execute the image in
place, stepping on memory beyond the provided allocation, which may be
in use for other purposes.

Let's fix this by adding the size of the setup block to the image size as
declared in the PE/COFF header.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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In the bootparams struct, init_size defines the static footprint of the
bzImage, counted from the start of the kernel image, i.e., startup_32().

The PE/COFF metadata declares the same size for the entire image, but this
time, the image includes the setup block as well, and so the space reserved
by UEFI is a bit too small. This usually doesn't matter, since we normally
relocate the kernel into a memory allocation of the correct size.
But in the unlikely case that the image happens to be loaded at exactly
the preferred offset, we skip this relocation, and execute the image in
place, stepping on memory beyond the provided allocation, which may be
in use for other purposes.

Let's fix this by adding the size of the setup block to the image size as
declared in the PE/COFF header.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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