[PATCH 2/2] arm64/efi: efistub: get text offset and image size from the Image header

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Mon Jul 14 09:54:46 PDT 2014


Hi Ard,

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 05:17:51PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> The EFI stub for arm64 needs to behave like an ordinary bootloader in the sense
> that it needs to use the EFI environment and the Image header at runtime and
> not rely on the linker or preprocessor to produce values for text offset,
> image size and kernel size.

Could you elaborate on _why_ we can't do that, given it's linked into
the kernel Image?

Are we splitting the stub from the kernel? What's going on?

> This patch also fixes the corner case where Image happens to be loaded
> at exactly the right offset, but the allocation is actually too small
> to satisfy the requirement imposed by image_size as set in the header.

It's not really imposed by image_size. While it's described by
image_size it's imposed by the existence of the BSS section and the
initial page tables.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile   |  2 --
>  arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++-------------
>  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
> index cdaedad3afe5..99b676eeeb0f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
> @@ -4,8 +4,6 @@
>  
>  CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds	:= -DTEXT_OFFSET=$(TEXT_OFFSET)
>  AFLAGS_head.o		:= -DTEXT_OFFSET=$(TEXT_OFFSET)
> -CFLAGS_efi-stub.o 	:= -DTEXT_OFFSET=$(TEXT_OFFSET) \
> -			   -I$(src)/../../../scripts/dtc/libfdt
>  
>  CFLAGS_REMOVE_ftrace.o = -pg
>  CFLAGS_REMOVE_insn.o = -pg
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c
> index 9b61d66e2d20..4ba90b2ef677 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c
> @@ -11,8 +11,7 @@
>   */
>  #include <linux/efi.h>
>  #include <asm/efi.h>
> -#include <asm/sections.h>
> -
> +#include <asm/image_hdr.h>
>  
>  efi_status_t handle_kernel_image(efi_system_table_t *sys_table,
>  				 unsigned long *image_addr,
> @@ -23,24 +22,28 @@ efi_status_t handle_kernel_image(efi_system_table_t *sys_table,
>  				 efi_loaded_image_t *image)
>  {
>  	efi_status_t status;
> -	unsigned long kernel_size, kernel_memsize = 0;
> +	struct arm64_image_hdr *hdr = (struct arm64_image_hdr *)*image_addr;
> +
> +	/* make sure image_addr points to an arm64 kernel Image */
> +	if (!arm64_image_hdr_check(hdr)) {
> +		pr_efi_err(sys_table, "Kernel Image header check failed\n");
> +		return EFI_LOAD_ERROR;
> +	}

Surely this should always be the case if the stub is linked into the
kernel?

It would be nice to know the rationale for this.

>  
>  	/* Relocate the image, if required. */
> -	kernel_size = _edata - _text;
> -	if (*image_addr != (dram_base + TEXT_OFFSET)) {
> -		kernel_memsize = kernel_size + (_end - _edata) + TEXT_OFFSET;
> -		status = efi_low_alloc(sys_table, kernel_memsize, SZ_2M,
> +	if (*image_addr != (dram_base + hdr->text_offset) ||
> +	    image->image_size < hdr->image_size) {

As far as I can tell the size of the Image (image->image_size) is always
going to be less than the effective run time image size
(hdr->image_size).

The SizeOfImage field in head.S which I assume image->image_size is
derived from (not having a UEFI spec in front of me) seems to cover
everything up to _edata but skips the BSS, and initial page tables, but
this is covered by the header's image_size field.

Am I missing something? Surely we _always_ expect image->image_size to
be smaller than hdr->image_size?

Cheers,
Mark.

> +		*reserve_size = hdr->text_offset + hdr->image_size;
> +		status = efi_low_alloc(sys_table, *reserve_size, SZ_2M,
>  				       reserve_addr);
>  		if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) {
>  			pr_efi_err(sys_table, "Failed to relocate kernel\n");
> +			*reserve_size = 0;
>  			return status;
>  		}
> -		memcpy((void *)*reserve_addr + TEXT_OFFSET, (void *)*image_addr,
> -		       kernel_size);
> -		*image_addr = *reserve_addr + TEXT_OFFSET;
> -		*reserve_size = kernel_memsize;
> +		memcpy((void *)*reserve_addr + hdr->text_offset,
> +		       (void *)*image_addr, image->image_size);
> +		*image_addr = *reserve_addr + hdr->text_offset;
>  	}
> -
> -
>  	return EFI_SUCCESS;
>  }
> -- 
> 1.8.3.2
> 
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