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Revision tags: v6.15, v6.15-rc7, v6.15-rc6, v6.15-rc5, v6.15-rc4, v6.15-rc3, v6.15-rc2, v6.15-rc1, v6.14, v6.14-rc7, v6.14-rc6, v6.14-rc5, v6.14-rc4, v6.14-rc3, v6.14-rc2, v6.14-rc1, v6.13, v6.13-rc7, v6.13-rc6, v6.13-rc5, v6.13-rc4, v6.13-rc3, v6.13-rc2, v6.13-rc1 |
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| 20-Nov-2024 |
Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> |
efi/libstub: Avoid legacy decompressor zlib/zstd wrappers
Remove EFI zboot's dependency on the decompression wrappers used by the legacy decompressor boot code, which can only process the input in o
efi/libstub: Avoid legacy decompressor zlib/zstd wrappers
Remove EFI zboot's dependency on the decompression wrappers used by the legacy decompressor boot code, which can only process the input in one go, and this will not work for upcoming support for embedded ELF images. They also do some odd things like providing a barebones malloc() implementation, which is not needed in a hosted environment such as the EFI boot services.
So instead, implement GZIP deflate and ZSTD decompression in terms of the underlying libraries. Support for other compression algoritms has already been dropped.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
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| 07-Jan-2025 |
Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> |
x86/efi/mixed: Move mixed mode startup code into libstub
The EFI mixed mode code has been decoupled from the legacy decompressor, in order to be able to reuse it with generic EFI zboot images for x8
x86/efi/mixed: Move mixed mode startup code into libstub
The EFI mixed mode code has been decoupled from the legacy decompressor, in order to be able to reuse it with generic EFI zboot images for x86.
Move the source file into the libstub source directory to facilitate this.
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
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| 22-Jan-2025 |
Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]> |
efi: libstub: Use '-std=gnu11' to fix build with GCC 15
GCC 15 changed the default C standard version to C23, which should not have impacted the kernel because it requests the gnu11 standard via '-s
efi: libstub: Use '-std=gnu11' to fix build with GCC 15
GCC 15 changed the default C standard version to C23, which should not have impacted the kernel because it requests the gnu11 standard via '-std=' in the main Makefile. However, the EFI libstub Makefile uses its own set of KBUILD_CFLAGS for x86 without a '-std=' value (i.e., using the default), resulting in errors from the kernel's definitions of bool, true, and false in stddef.h, which are reserved keywords under C23.
./include/linux/stddef.h:11:9: error: expected identifier before ‘false’ 11 | false = 0, ./include/linux/types.h:35:33: error: two or more data types in declaration specifiers 35 | typedef _Bool bool;
Set '-std=gnu11' in the x86 cflags to resolve the error and consistently use the same C standard version for the entire kernel. All other architectures reuse KBUILD_CFLAGS from the rest of the kernel, so this issue is not visible for them.
Cc: [email protected] Reported-by: Kostadin Shishmanov <[email protected]> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/4OAhbllK7x4QJGpZjkYjtBYNLd_2whHx9oFiuZcGwtVR4hIzvduultkgfAIRZI3vQpZylu7Gl929HaYFRGeMEalWCpeMzCIIhLxxRhq4U-Y=@protonmail.com/ Reported-by: Jakub Jelinek <[email protected]> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/Z4467umXR2PZ0M1H@tucnak/ Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
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Revision tags: v6.12, v6.12-rc7, v6.12-rc6, v6.12-rc5, v6.12-rc4, v6.12-rc3, v6.12-rc2, v6.12-rc1, v6.11, v6.11-rc7, v6.11-rc6, v6.11-rc5, v6.11-rc4, v6.11-rc3, v6.11-rc2, v6.11-rc1, v6.10, v6.10-rc7, v6.10-rc6 |
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b5db73fb |
| 23-Jun-2024 |
Jisheng Zhang <[email protected]> |
riscv: enable HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK
Add support for the stackleak feature. Whenever the kernel returns to user space the kernel stack is filled with a poison value.
At the same time, disables the plu
riscv: enable HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK
Add support for the stackleak feature. Whenever the kernel returns to user space the kernel stack is filled with a poison value.
At the same time, disables the plugin in EFI stub code because EFI stub is out of scope for the protection.
Tested on qemu and milkv duo: / # echo STACKLEAK_ERASING > /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT [ 38.675575] lkdtm: Performing direct entry STACKLEAK_ERASING [ 38.678448] lkdtm: stackleak stack usage: [ 38.678448] high offset: 288 bytes [ 38.678448] current: 496 bytes [ 38.678448] lowest: 1328 bytes [ 38.678448] tracked: 1328 bytes [ 38.678448] untracked: 448 bytes [ 38.678448] poisoned: 14312 bytes [ 38.678448] low offset: 8 bytes [ 38.689887] lkdtm: OK: the rest of the thread stack is properly erased
Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <[email protected]>
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| 01-Jul-2024 |
Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> |
x86/efistub: Enable SMBIOS protocol handling for x86
The smbios.c source file is not currently included in the x86 build, and before we can do so, it needs some tweaks to build correctly in combinat
x86/efistub: Enable SMBIOS protocol handling for x86
The smbios.c source file is not currently included in the x86 build, and before we can do so, it needs some tweaks to build correctly in combination with the EFI mixed mode support.
Reviewed-by: Lukas Wunner <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
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| 27-Jun-2024 |
Jinjie Ruan <[email protected]> |
ARM: 9407/1: Add support for STACKLEAK gcc plugin
Add the STACKLEAK gcc plugin to arm32 by adding the helper used by stackleak common code: on_thread_stack(). It initialize the stack with the poison
ARM: 9407/1: Add support for STACKLEAK gcc plugin
Add the STACKLEAK gcc plugin to arm32 by adding the helper used by stackleak common code: on_thread_stack(). It initialize the stack with the poison value before returning from system calls which improves the kernel security. Additionally, this disables the plugin in EFI stub code and decompress code, which are out of scope for the protection.
Before the test on Qemu versatilepb board: # echo STACKLEAK_ERASING > /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT lkdtm: Performing direct entry STACKLEAK_ERASING lkdtm: XFAIL: stackleak is not supported on this arch (HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK=n)
After: # echo STACKLEAK_ERASING > /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT lkdtm: Performing direct entry STACKLEAK_ERASING lkdtm: stackleak stack usage: high offset: 80 bytes current: 280 bytes lowest: 696 bytes tracked: 696 bytes untracked: 192 bytes poisoned: 7220 bytes low offset: 4 bytes lkdtm: OK: the rest of the thread stack is properly erased
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <[email protected]> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <[email protected]>
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Revision tags: v6.10-rc5, v6.10-rc4, v6.10-rc3 |
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| 03-Jun-2024 |
Yuntao Liu <[email protected]> |
ARM: 9404/1: arm32: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
The current arm32 architecture does not yet support the HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION feature. arm32 is widely used in embedded sce
ARM: 9404/1: arm32: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
The current arm32 architecture does not yet support the HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION feature. arm32 is widely used in embedded scenarios, and enabling this feature would be beneficial for reducing the size of the kernel image.
In order to make this work, we keep the necessary tables by annotating them with KEEP, also it requires further changes to linker script to KEEP some tables and wildcard compiler generated sections into the right place. When using ld.lld for linking, KEEP is not recognized within the OVERLAY command, and Ard proposed a concise method to solve this problem.
It boots normally with defconfig, vexpress_defconfig and tinyconfig.
The size comparison of zImage is as follows: defconfig vexpress_defconfig tinyconfig 5137712 5138024 424192 no dce 5032560 4997824 298384 dce 2.0% 2.7% 29.7% shrink
When using smaller config file, there is a significant reduction in the size of the zImage.
We also tested this patch on a commercially available single-board computer, and the comparison is as follows: a15eb_config 2161384 no dce 2092240 dce 3.2% shrink
The zImage size has been reduced by approximately 3.2%, which is 70KB on 2.1M.
Signed-off-by: Yuntao Liu <[email protected]> Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <[email protected]>
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Revision tags: v6.10-rc2, v6.10-rc1, v6.9 |
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| 06-May-2024 |
Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]> |
Makefile: remove redundant tool coverage variables
Now Kbuild provides reasonable defaults for objtool, sanitizers, and profilers.
Remove redundant variables.
Note:
This commit changes the covera
Makefile: remove redundant tool coverage variables
Now Kbuild provides reasonable defaults for objtool, sanitizers, and profilers.
Remove redundant variables.
Note:
This commit changes the coverage for some objects:
- include arch/mips/vdso/vdso-image.o into UBSAN, GCOV, KCOV - include arch/sparc/vdso/vdso-image-*.o into UBSAN - include arch/sparc/vdso/vma.o into UBSAN - include arch/x86/entry/vdso/extable.o into KASAN, KCSAN, UBSAN, GCOV, KCOV - include arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso-image-*.o into KASAN, KCSAN, UBSAN, GCOV, KCOV - include arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32-setup.o into KASAN, KCSAN, UBSAN, GCOV, KCOV - include arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.o into GCOV, KCOV - include arch/x86/um/vdso/vma.o into KASAN, GCOV, KCOV
I believe these are positive effects because all of them are kernel space objects.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Tested-by: Roberto Sassu <[email protected]>
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Revision tags: v6.9-rc7, v6.9-rc6, v6.9-rc5, v6.9-rc4, v6.9-rc3, v6.9-rc2, v6.9-rc1, v6.8, v6.8-rc7, v6.8-rc6, v6.8-rc5, v6.8-rc4, v6.8-rc3, v6.8-rc2, v6.8-rc1 |
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| 09-Jan-2024 |
Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]> |
treewide: update LLVM Bugzilla links
LLVM moved their issue tracker from their own Bugzilla instance to GitHub issues. While all of the links are still valid, they may not necessarily show the most
treewide: update LLVM Bugzilla links
LLVM moved their issue tracker from their own Bugzilla instance to GitHub issues. While all of the links are still valid, they may not necessarily show the most up to date information around the issues, as all updates will occur on GitHub, not Bugzilla.
Another complication is that the Bugzilla issue number is not always the same as the GitHub issue number. Thankfully, LLVM maintains this mapping through two shortlinks:
https://llvm.org/bz<num> -> https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=<num> https://llvm.org/pr<num> -> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/<mapped_num>
Switch all "https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=<num>" links to the "https://llvm.org/pr<num>" shortlink so that the links show the most up to date information. Each migrated issue links back to the Bugzilla entry, so there should be no loss of fidelity of information here.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Acked-by: Fangrui Song <[email protected]> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <[email protected]> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]> Cc: Mykola Lysenko <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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| 16-Jan-2024 |
Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> |
riscv/efistub: Tighten ELF relocation check
The EFI stub makefile contains logic to ensure that the objects that make up the stub do not contain relocations that require runtime fixups (typically to
riscv/efistub: Tighten ELF relocation check
The EFI stub makefile contains logic to ensure that the objects that make up the stub do not contain relocations that require runtime fixups (typically to account for the runtime load address of the executable)
On RISC-V, we also avoid GP based relocations, as they require that GP is assigned the correct base in the startup code, which is not implemented in the EFI stub.
So add these relocation types to the grep expression that is used to carry out this check.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/42c63cb9-87d0-49db-9af8-95771b186684%40siemens.com Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
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| 12-Jan-2024 |
Jan Kiszka <[email protected]> |
riscv/efistub: Ensure GP-relative addressing is not used
The cflags for the RISC-V efistub were missing -mno-relax, thus were under the risk that the compiler could use GP-relative addressing. That
riscv/efistub: Ensure GP-relative addressing is not used
The cflags for the RISC-V efistub were missing -mno-relax, thus were under the risk that the compiler could use GP-relative addressing. That happened for _edata with binutils-2.41 and kernel 6.1, causing the relocation to fail due to an invalid kernel_size in handle_kernel_image. It was not yet observed with newer versions, but that may just be luck.
Cc: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
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Revision tags: v6.7, v6.7-rc8, v6.7-rc7, v6.7-rc6, v6.7-rc5, v6.7-rc4, v6.7-rc3, v6.7-rc2, v6.7-rc1 |
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| 31-Oct-2023 |
Xiao Wang <[email protected]> |
riscv: Optimize bitops with Zbb extension
This patch leverages the alternative mechanism to dynamically optimize bitops (including __ffs, __fls, ffs, fls) with Zbb instructions. When Zbb ext is not
riscv: Optimize bitops with Zbb extension
This patch leverages the alternative mechanism to dynamically optimize bitops (including __ffs, __fls, ffs, fls) with Zbb instructions. When Zbb ext is not supported by the runtime CPU, legacy implementation is used. If Zbb is supported, then the optimized variants will be selected via alternative patching.
The legacy bitops support is taken from the generic C implementation as fallback.
If the parameter is a build-time constant, we leverage compiler builtin to calculate the result directly, this approach is inspired by x86 bitops implementation.
EFI stub runs before the kernel, so alternative mechanism should not be used there, this patch introduces a macro NO_ALTERNATIVE for this purpose.
Signed-off-by: Xiao Wang <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <[email protected]>
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Revision tags: v6.6, v6.6-rc7, v6.6-rc6, v6.6-rc5, v6.6-rc4, v6.6-rc3, v6.6-rc2 |
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| 12-Sep-2023 |
Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> |
x86/efi: Drop EFI stub .bss from .data section
Now that the EFI stub always zero inits its BSS section upon entry, there is no longer a need to place the BSS symbols carried by the stub into the .da
x86/efi: Drop EFI stub .bss from .data section
Now that the EFI stub always zero inits its BSS section upon entry, there is no longer a need to place the BSS symbols carried by the stub into the .data section.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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Revision tags: v6.6-rc1, v6.5, v6.5-rc7, v6.5-rc6, v6.5-rc5, v6.5-rc4, v6.5-rc3 |
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| 22-Jul-2023 |
Alexandre Ghiti <[email protected]> |
riscv: libstub: Implement KASLR by using generic functions
We can now use arm64 functions to handle the move of the kernel physical mapping: if KASLR is enabled, we will try to get a random seed fro
riscv: libstub: Implement KASLR by using generic functions
We can now use arm64 functions to handle the move of the kernel physical mapping: if KASLR is enabled, we will try to get a random seed from the firmware, if not possible, the kernel will be moved to a location that suits its alignment constraints.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <[email protected]> Tested-by: Conor Dooley <[email protected]> Tested-by: Song Shuai <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <[email protected]> Tested-by: Sami Tolvanen <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <[email protected]>
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| 22-Jul-2023 |
Alexandre Ghiti <[email protected]> |
arm64: libstub: Move KASLR handling functions to kaslr.c
This prepares for riscv to use the same functions to handle the pĥysical kernel move when KASLR is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <
arm64: libstub: Move KASLR handling functions to kaslr.c
This prepares for riscv to use the same functions to handle the pĥysical kernel move when KASLR is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <[email protected]> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> Tested-by: Conor Dooley <[email protected]> Tested-by: Song Shuai <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <[email protected]> Tested-by: Sami Tolvanen <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <[email protected]>
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| 07-Aug-2023 |
Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> |
x86/efistub: Perform 4/5 level paging switch from the stub
In preparation for updating the EFI stub boot flow to avoid the bare metal decompressor code altogether, implement the support code for swi
x86/efistub: Perform 4/5 level paging switch from the stub
In preparation for updating the EFI stub boot flow to avoid the bare metal decompressor code altogether, implement the support code for switching between 4 and 5 levels of paging before jumping to the kernel proper.
Reuse the newly refactored trampoline that the bare metal decompressor uses, but relies on EFI APIs to allocate 32-bit addressable memory and remap it with the appropriate permissions. Given that the bare metal decompressor will no longer call into the trampoline if the number of paging levels is already set correctly, it is no longer needed to remove NX restrictions from the memory range where this trampoline may end up.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <[email protected]> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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| 03-Aug-2023 |
Xiao Wang <[email protected]> |
efi/riscv: libstub: Fix comment about absolute relocation
We don't want absolute symbols references in the stub, so fix the double negation in the comment.
Signed-off-by: Xiao Wang <xiao.w.wang@int
efi/riscv: libstub: Fix comment about absolute relocation
We don't want absolute symbols references in the stub, so fix the double negation in the comment.
Signed-off-by: Xiao Wang <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
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Revision tags: v6.5-rc2, v6.5-rc1, v6.4, v6.4-rc7, v6.4-rc6 |
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| 06-Jun-2023 |
Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> |
efi/libstub: Implement support for unaccepted memory
UEFI Specification version 2.9 introduces the concept of memory acceptance: Some Virtual Machine platforms, such as Intel TDX or AMD SEV-SNP, req
efi/libstub: Implement support for unaccepted memory
UEFI Specification version 2.9 introduces the concept of memory acceptance: Some Virtual Machine platforms, such as Intel TDX or AMD SEV-SNP, requiring memory to be accepted before it can be used by the guest. Accepting happens via a protocol specific for the Virtual Machine platform.
Accepting memory is costly and it makes VMM allocate memory for the accepted guest physical address range. It's better to postpone memory acceptance until memory is needed. It lowers boot time and reduces memory overhead.
The kernel needs to know what memory has been accepted. Firmware communicates this information via memory map: a new memory type -- EFI_UNACCEPTED_MEMORY -- indicates such memory.
Range-based tracking works fine for firmware, but it gets bulky for the kernel: e820 (or whatever the arch uses) has to be modified on every page acceptance. It leads to table fragmentation and there's a limited number of entries in the e820 table.
Another option is to mark such memory as usable in e820 and track if the range has been accepted in a bitmap. One bit in the bitmap represents a naturally aligned power-2-sized region of address space -- unit.
For x86, unit size is 2MiB: 4k of the bitmap is enough to track 64GiB or physical address space.
In the worst-case scenario -- a huge hole in the middle of the address space -- It needs 256MiB to handle 4PiB of the address space.
Any unaccepted memory that is not aligned to unit_size gets accepted upfront.
The bitmap is allocated and constructed in the EFI stub and passed down to the kernel via EFI configuration table. allocate_e820() allocates the bitmap if unaccepted memory is present, according to the size of unaccepted region.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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Revision tags: v6.4-rc5, v6.4-rc4, v6.4-rc3, v6.4-rc2, v6.4-rc1, v6.3 |
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| 18-Apr-2023 |
Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> |
arm64: efi: Enable BTI codegen and add PE/COFF annotation
UEFI heavily relies on so-called protocols, which are essentially tables populated with pointers to executable code, and these are invoked i
arm64: efi: Enable BTI codegen and add PE/COFF annotation
UEFI heavily relies on so-called protocols, which are essentially tables populated with pointers to executable code, and these are invoked indirectly using BR or BLR instructions.
This makes the EFI execution context vulnerable to attacks on forward edge control flow, and so it would help if we could enable hardware enforcement (BTI) on CPUs that implement it.
So let's no longer disable BTI codegen for the EFI stub, and set the newly introduced PE/COFF header flag when the kernel is built with BTI landing pads.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <[email protected]>
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Revision tags: v6.3-rc7, v6.3-rc6, v6.3-rc5, v6.3-rc4, v6.3-rc3, v6.3-rc2, v6.3-rc1, v6.2, v6.2-rc8, v6.2-rc7, v6.2-rc6, v6.2-rc5, v6.2-rc4 |
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| 11-Jan-2023 |
Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> |
efi: arm64: enter with MMU and caches enabled
Instead of cleaning the entire loaded kernel image to the PoC and disabling the MMU and caches before branching to the kernel's bare metal entry point,
efi: arm64: enter with MMU and caches enabled
Instead of cleaning the entire loaded kernel image to the PoC and disabling the MMU and caches before branching to the kernel's bare metal entry point, we can leave the MMU and caches enabled, and rely on EFI's cacheable 1:1 mapping of all of system RAM (which is mandated by the spec) to populate the initial page tables.
This removes the need for managing coherency in software, which is tedious and error prone.
Note that we still need to clean the executable region of the image to the PoU if this is required for I/D coherency, but only if we actually decided to move the image in memory, as otherwise, this will have been taken care of by the loader.
This change affects both the builtin EFI stub as well as the zboot decompressor, which now carries the entire EFI stub along with the decompression code and the compressed image.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
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Revision tags: v6.2-rc3, v6.2-rc2, v6.2-rc1, v6.1, v6.1-rc8, v6.1-rc7, v6.1-rc6, v6.1-rc5 |
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| 10-Nov-2022 |
Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> |
arm64: efi: Force the use of SetVirtualAddressMap() on Altra machines
Ampere Altra machines are reported to misbehave when the SetTime() EFI runtime service is called after ExitBootServices() but be
arm64: efi: Force the use of SetVirtualAddressMap() on Altra machines
Ampere Altra machines are reported to misbehave when the SetTime() EFI runtime service is called after ExitBootServices() but before calling SetVirtualAddressMap(). Given that the latter is horrid, pointless and explicitly documented as optional by the EFI spec, we no longer invoke it at boot if the configured size of the VA space guarantees that the EFI runtime memory regions can remain mapped 1:1 like they are at boot time.
On Ampere Altra machines, this results in SetTime() calls issued by the rtc-efi driver triggering synchronous exceptions during boot. We can now recover from those without bringing down the system entirely, due to commit 23715a26c8d81291 ("arm64: efi: Recover from synchronous exceptions occurring in firmware"). However, it would be better to avoid the issue entirely, given that the firmware appears to remain in a funny state after this.
So attempt to identify these machines based on the 'family' field in the type #1 SMBIOS record, and call SetVirtualAddressMap() unconditionally in that case.
Tested-by: Alexandru Elisei <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
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Revision tags: v6.1-rc4, v6.1-rc3 |
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| 27-Oct-2022 |
Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> |
arm64: unwind: add asynchronous unwind tables to kernel and modules
Enable asynchronous unwind table generation for both the core kernel as well as modules, and emit the resulting .eh_frame sections
arm64: unwind: add asynchronous unwind tables to kernel and modules
Enable asynchronous unwind table generation for both the core kernel as well as modules, and emit the resulting .eh_frame sections as init code so we can use the unwind directives for code patching at boot or module load time.
This will be used by dynamic shadow call stack support, which will rely on code patching rather than compiler codegen to emit the shadow call stack push and pop instructions.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <[email protected]> Tested-by: Sami Tolvanen <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
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Revision tags: v6.1-rc2, v6.1-rc1 |
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| 13-Oct-2022 |
Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> |
efi/loongarch: libstub: Split off kernel image relocation for builtin stub
The LoongArch build of the EFI stub is part of the core kernel image, and therefore accesses section markers directly when
efi/loongarch: libstub: Split off kernel image relocation for builtin stub
The LoongArch build of the EFI stub is part of the core kernel image, and therefore accesses section markers directly when it needs to figure out the size of the various section.
The zboot decompressor does not have access to those symbols, but doesn't really need that either. So let's move handle_kernel_image() into a separate file (or rather, move everything else into a separate file) so that the zboot build does not pull in unused code that links to symbols that it does not define.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
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d9ffe524 |
| 13-Oct-2022 |
Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> |
efi/arm64: libstub: Split off kernel image relocation for builtin stub
The arm64 build of the EFI stub is part of the core kernel image, and therefore accesses section markers directly when it needs
efi/arm64: libstub: Split off kernel image relocation for builtin stub
The arm64 build of the EFI stub is part of the core kernel image, and therefore accesses section markers directly when it needs to figure out the size of the various section.
The zboot decompressor does not have access to those symbols, but doesn't really need that either. So let's move handle_kernel_image() into a separate file (or rather, move everything else into a separate file) so that the zboot build does not pull in unused code that links to symbols that it does not define.
While at it, introduce a helper routine that the generic zboot loader will need to invoke after decompressing the image but before invoking it, to ensure that the I-side view of memory is consistent.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
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| 12-Oct-2022 |
Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> |
efi/riscv: libstub: Split off kernel image relocation for builtin stub
The RISC-V build of the EFI stub is part of the core kernel image, and therefore accesses section markers directly when it need
efi/riscv: libstub: Split off kernel image relocation for builtin stub
The RISC-V build of the EFI stub is part of the core kernel image, and therefore accesses section markers directly when it needs to figure out the size of the various section.
The zboot decompressor does not have access to those symbols, but doesn't really need that either. So let's move handle_kernel_image() into a separate file (or rather, move everything else into a separate file) so that the zboot build does not pull in unused code that links to symbols that it does not define.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
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