firmware_loader: Add firmware-upload support

Extend the firmware subsystem to support a persistent sysfs interface that
userspace may use to initiate a firmware update. For example, FPGA based
PCIe

firmware_loader: Add firmware-upload support

Extend the firmware subsystem to support a persistent sysfs interface that
userspace may use to initiate a firmware update. For example, FPGA based
PCIe cards load firmware and FPGA images from local FLASH when the card
boots. The images in FLASH may be updated with new images provided by the
user at his/her convenience.

A device driver may call firmware_upload_register() to expose persistent
"loading" and "data" sysfs files. These files are used in the same way as
the fallback sysfs "loading" and "data" files. When 0 is written to
"loading" to complete the write of firmware data, the data is transferred
to the lower-level driver using pre-registered call-back functions. The
data transfer is done in the context of a kernel worker thread.

Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Tianfei zhang <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Matthew Gerlach <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Russ Weight <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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firmware_loader: Split sysfs support from fallback

In preparation for sharing the "loading" and "data" sysfs nodes with the
new firmware upload support, split out sysfs functionality from fallback.c

firmware_loader: Split sysfs support from fallback

In preparation for sharing the "loading" and "data" sysfs nodes with the
new firmware upload support, split out sysfs functionality from fallback.c
and fallback.h into sysfs.c and sysfs.h. This includes the firmware
class driver code that is associated with the sysfs files and the
fw_fallback_config support for the timeout sysfs node.

CONFIG_FW_LOADER_SYSFS is created and is selected by
CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER in order to include sysfs.o in
firmware_class-objs.

This is mostly just a code reorganization. There are a few symbols that
change in scope, and these can be identified by looking at the header
file changes. A few white-space warnings from checkpatch are also
addressed in this patch.

Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Tianfei zhang <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Matthew Gerlach <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Russ Weight <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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firmware: Add new platform fallback mechanism and firmware_request_platform()

In some cases the platform's main firmware (e.g. the UEFI fw) may contain
an embedded copy of device firmware which need

firmware: Add new platform fallback mechanism and firmware_request_platform()

In some cases the platform's main firmware (e.g. the UEFI fw) may contain
an embedded copy of device firmware which needs to be (re)loaded into the
peripheral. Normally such firmware would be part of linux-firmware, but in
some cases this is not feasible, for 2 reasons:

1) The firmware is customized for a specific use-case of the chipset / use
with a specific hardware model, so we cannot have a single firmware file
for the chipset. E.g. touchscreen controller firmwares are compiled
specifically for the hardware model they are used with, as they are
calibrated for a specific model digitizer.

2) Despite repeated attempts we have failed to get permission to
redistribute the firmware. This is especially a problem with customized
firmwares, these get created by the chip vendor for a specific ODM and the
copyright may partially belong with the ODM, so the chip vendor cannot
give a blanket permission to distribute these.

This commit adds a new platform fallback mechanism to the firmware loader
which will try to lookup a device fw copy embedded in the platform's main
firmware if direct filesystem lookup fails.

Drivers which need such embedded fw copies can enable this fallback
mechanism by using the new firmware_request_platform() function.

Note that for now this is only supported on EFI platforms and even on
these platforms firmware_fallback_platform() only works if
CONFIG_EFI_EMBEDDED_FIRMWARE is enabled (this gets selected by drivers
which need this), in all other cases firmware_fallback_platform() simply
always returns -ENOENT.

Reported-by: Dave Olsthoorn <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Peter Jones <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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firmware_loader: move firmware/ to drivers/base/firmware_loader/builtin/

Currently, the 'firmware' directory only contains a single Makefile
to embed extra firmware into the kernel.

Move it to the

firmware_loader: move firmware/ to drivers/base/firmware_loader/builtin/

Currently, the 'firmware' directory only contains a single Makefile
to embed extra firmware into the kernel.

Move it to the more relevant place.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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firmware_loader: move CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER switch to Makefile

The whole code of fallback_table.c is surrounded by #ifdef of
CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER.

Move the CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELP

firmware_loader: move CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER switch to Makefile

The whole code of fallback_table.c is surrounded by #ifdef of
CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER.

Move the CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER switch to Makefile so that
it is not compiled at all when this CONFIG option is disabled.

I also removed the confusing comment, "Module or buit-in [sic]".
CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER is a boolean option.
(If it were a module, CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_MODULE would
be defined instead.)

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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firmware: move firmware loader into its own directory

This will make it much easier to manage as we manage to
keep trimming componnents down into their own files to more
easily manage and maintain t

firmware: move firmware loader into its own directory

This will make it much easier to manage as we manage to
keep trimming componnents down into their own files to more
easily manage and maintain this codebase.

Suggested-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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