[PATCH] efi: capsule: allocate whole capsule into virtual memory
Matt Fleming
matt at codeblueprint.co.uk
Thu Jul 21 06:12:30 PDT 2016
On Fri, 15 Jul, at 10:41:31AM, Christ, Austin wrote:
> According to UEFI 2.6 section 7.5.3, the capsule should be in contiguous
> virtual memory and firmware may consume the capsule immediately. To
> correctly implement this functionality, the kernel driver needs to vmap
> the entire capsule at the time it is made available to firmware.
>
> The virtual allocation of the capsule update has been changed from kmap,
> which was only allocating the first page of the update, to vmap and
> allocates the entire data payload.
>
> Signed-off-by: Austin Christ <austinwc at codeaurora.org>
> ---
> drivers/firmware/efi/capsule-loader.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/capsule-loader.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/capsule-loader.c
> index c99c24b..c4f3c20 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/capsule-loader.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/capsule-loader.c
> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
> #include <linux/slab.h>
> #include <linux/mutex.h>
> #include <linux/efi.h>
> +#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
>
> #define NO_FURTHER_WRITE_ACTION -1
>
> @@ -108,14 +109,15 @@ static ssize_t efi_capsule_submit_update(struct capsule_info *cap_info)
> int ret;
> void *cap_hdr_temp;
>
> - cap_hdr_temp = kmap(cap_info->pages[0]);
> + cap_hdr_temp = vmap(cap_info->pages, cap_info->index,
> + VM_MAP, PAGE_KERNEL);
> if (!cap_hdr_temp) {
> pr_debug("%s: kmap() failed\n", __func__);
> return -EFAULT;
> }
>
> ret = efi_capsule_update(cap_hdr_temp, cap_info->pages);
> - kunmap(cap_info->pages[0]);
> + vunmap(cap_hdr_temp);
> if (ret) {
> pr_err("%s: efi_capsule_update() failed\n", __func__);
> return ret;
Looks OK to me but could you also update the comments above
efi_capsule_update() that mention the virtual mapping only being
required for the first page?
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