[PATCH v2 06/10] efi: payload: always shutdown barebox when booting
Marco Felsch
m.felsch at pengutronix.de
Thu Oct 15 03:03:22 PDT 2026
Hi Ahmad,
On 26-10-15 11:18, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> When barebox is about to boot a kernel image, it calls shutdown_barebox
> and then starts the image. When the kernel image is wrapped in a UKI,
> barebox will not detect it as a kernel image and will thus not call
> shutdown_barebox beforehand, which can mean that e.g. state is not
> flushed.
>
> We do not want to treat UKIs completely like kernels (e.g. we do not
> want to override their built-in bootargs), but we still want to properly
> shutdown barebox.
But it's still possible to pass further kernel commandline arguments to
an UKI?
Regards,
Marco
>
> Resolve this by shutting down barebox whenever we are in a bootm handler,
> no matter which kind of image is about to be started: bootm is the point
> of no return. Images run from the shell via binfmt keep returning to
> barebox afterwards, with the exception of EFI-stubbed kernels, which take
> over the machine and thus continue to shut barebox down as before.
>
> Assisted-by: Claude:opus-5
> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
> ---
> efi/payload/bootm.c | 4 ++--
> efi/payload/image.c | 21 +++++++++++++++------
> efi/payload/image.h | 1 +
> 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/efi/payload/bootm.c b/efi/payload/bootm.c
> index 3168e07a3dc1..2bcfd90e42fa 100644
> --- a/efi/payload/bootm.c
> +++ b/efi/payload/bootm.c
> @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ static int do_bootm_efi_stub(struct image_data *data)
> if (data->dryrun)
> goto unload_ramdisk;
>
> - ret = efi_execute_image(handle, loaded_image, type);
> + ret = efi_execute_image(handle, loaded_image, true, type);
>
> /* efi_execute_image takes care to unload the image on error,
> * so we set image_freed and fall through to freeing ramdisk
> @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ static int efi_app_execute(struct image_data *data)
> return 0;
> }
>
> - return efi_execute_image(handle, loaded_image, type);
> + return efi_execute_image(handle, loaded_image, true, type);
> }
>
> static int linux_efi_handover = true;
> diff --git a/efi/payload/image.c b/efi/payload/image.c
> index 378709b6de95..3668a6a04cac 100644
> --- a/efi/payload/image.c
> +++ b/efi/payload/image.c
> @@ -100,15 +100,24 @@ int efi_load_image(const char *file, struct efi_loaded_image **loaded_image,
>
> int efi_execute_image(efi_handle_t handle,
> struct efi_loaded_image *loaded_image,
> + bool is_bootm,
> enum filetype filetype)
> {
> efi_status_t efiret;
> const char *options;
> - bool is_driver, is_kernel = false;
> + bool is_driver;
> + bool no_return;
>
> is_driver = (loaded_image->image_code_type == EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE) ||
> (loaded_image->image_code_type == EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_CODE);
>
> + /*
> + * A bootm handler is the point of no return, but an EFI-stubbed kernel
> + * started from the shell takes over the machine just the same, so
> + * barebox needs to be shut down in both cases.
> + */
> + no_return = is_bootm || filetype_is_linux_efi_image(filetype);
> +
> if (filetype_is_linux_efi_image(filetype)) {
> options = linux_bootargs_get();
> printf("Booting kernel via StartImage");
> @@ -119,11 +128,11 @@ int efi_execute_image(efi_handle_t handle,
> (strlen(options) + 1) * sizeof(wchar_t);
> }
> printf("...\n");
> + }
>
> + if (no_return) {
> efi_set_variable_usec("LoaderTimeExecUSec", &efi_systemd_vendor_guid,
> ktime_to_us(ktime_get()));
> -
> - is_kernel = true;
> shutdown_barebox();
> }
>
> @@ -133,8 +142,8 @@ int efi_execute_image(efi_handle_t handle,
>
> efi_continue_devices();
>
> - if (is_kernel) {
> - pr_emerg("Kernel image has unexpectedly returned\n");
> + if (no_return) {
> + pr_emerg("Boot image has unexpectedly returned\n");
> BS->exit(efi_parent_image, efiret, 0, NULL);
> }
>
> @@ -160,7 +169,7 @@ static int efi_execute(struct binfmt_hook *b, char *file, int argc, char **argv)
> if (ret)
> return ret;
>
> - return efi_execute_image(handle, loaded_image, b->type);
> + return efi_execute_image(handle, loaded_image, false, b->type);
> }
>
> static struct binfmt_hook binfmt_efi_hook = {
> diff --git a/efi/payload/image.h b/efi/payload/image.h
> index bab1be368c21..33f7e1a21b30 100644
> --- a/efi/payload/image.h
> +++ b/efi/payload/image.h
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ int efi_load_image(const char *file, struct efi_loaded_image **loaded_image,
>
> int efi_execute_image(efi_handle_t handle,
> struct efi_loaded_image *loaded_image,
> + bool is_bootm,
> enum filetype filetype);
>
> extern struct image_handler efi_x86_linux_handle_tr;
> --
> 2.47.3
>
>
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