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# 0dc1754e 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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# fb84cefd 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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# 8ba14d9f 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
# 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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# cd619387 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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# 2335c9cb 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
# ed0f9410 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
# 7f7f6f7a 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
# 2947a456 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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# d2baf8cc 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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# afb2a4fb 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
# 457926b2 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
# 5f51c5d0 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
# b7ac4b8e 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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# 6b56beb5 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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# cb1c9e02 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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# f6e6e95c 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
# 745e3ed8 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
# 8358098b 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
# 61786170 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
# 550b33cf 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
# 68c76ad4 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
# d729b554 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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# f1a116c0 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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