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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c, branch v6.4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'efi-next-for-v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi</title>
<updated>2023-02-23T22:41:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2023-02-23T22:41:48+00:00</published>
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Pull EFI updates from Ard Biesheuvel:
 "A healthy mix of EFI contributions this time:

   - Performance tweaks for efifb earlycon (Andy)

   - Preparatory refactoring and cleanup work in the efivar layer, which
     is needed to accommodate the Snapdragon arm64 laptops that expose
     their EFI variable store via a TEE secure world API (Johan)

   - Enhancements to the EFI memory map handling so that Xen dom0 can
     safely access EFI configuration tables (Demi Marie)

   - Wire up the newly introduced IBT/BTI flag in the EFI memory
     attributes table, so that firmware that is generated with ENDBR/BTI
     landing pads will be mapped with enforcement enabled

   - Clean up how we check and print the EFI revision exposed by the
     firmware

   - Incorporate EFI memory attributes protocol definition and wire it
     up in the EFI zboot code (Evgeniy)

     This ensures that these images can execute under new and stricter
     rules regarding the default memory permissions for EFI page
     allocations (More work is in progress here)

   - CPER header cleanup (Dan Williams)

   - Use a raw spinlock to protect the EFI runtime services stack on
     arm64 to ensure the correct semantics under -rt (Pierre)

   - EFI framebuffer quirk for Lenovo Ideapad (Darrell)"

* tag 'efi-next-for-v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi: (24 commits)
  firmware/efi sysfb_efi: Add quirk for Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 3
  arm64: efi: Make efi_rt_lock a raw_spinlock
  efi: Add mixed-mode thunk recipe for GetMemoryAttributes
  efi: x86: Wire up IBT annotation in memory attributes table
  efi: arm64: Wire up BTI annotation in memory attributes table
  efi: Discover BTI support in runtime services regions
  efi/cper, cxl: Remove cxl_err.h
  efi: Use standard format for printing the EFI revision
  efi: Drop minimum EFI version check at boot
  efi: zboot: Use EFI protocol to remap code/data with the right attributes
  efi/libstub: Add memory attribute protocol definitions
  efi: efivars: prevent double registration
  efi: verify that variable services are supported
  efivarfs: always register filesystem
  efi: efivars: add efivars printk prefix
  efi: Warn if trying to reserve memory under Xen
  efi: Actually enable the ESRT under Xen
  efi: Apply allowlist to EFI configuration tables when running under Xen
  efi: xen: Implement memory descriptor lookup based on hypercall
  efi: memmap: Disregard bogus entries instead of returning them
  ...
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Pull EFI updates from Ard Biesheuvel:
 "A healthy mix of EFI contributions this time:

   - Performance tweaks for efifb earlycon (Andy)

   - Preparatory refactoring and cleanup work in the efivar layer, which
     is needed to accommodate the Snapdragon arm64 laptops that expose
     their EFI variable store via a TEE secure world API (Johan)

   - Enhancements to the EFI memory map handling so that Xen dom0 can
     safely access EFI configuration tables (Demi Marie)

   - Wire up the newly introduced IBT/BTI flag in the EFI memory
     attributes table, so that firmware that is generated with ENDBR/BTI
     landing pads will be mapped with enforcement enabled

   - Clean up how we check and print the EFI revision exposed by the
     firmware

   - Incorporate EFI memory attributes protocol definition and wire it
     up in the EFI zboot code (Evgeniy)

     This ensures that these images can execute under new and stricter
     rules regarding the default memory permissions for EFI page
     allocations (More work is in progress here)

   - CPER header cleanup (Dan Williams)

   - Use a raw spinlock to protect the EFI runtime services stack on
     arm64 to ensure the correct semantics under -rt (Pierre)

   - EFI framebuffer quirk for Lenovo Ideapad (Darrell)"

* tag 'efi-next-for-v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi: (24 commits)
  firmware/efi sysfb_efi: Add quirk for Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 3
  arm64: efi: Make efi_rt_lock a raw_spinlock
  efi: Add mixed-mode thunk recipe for GetMemoryAttributes
  efi: x86: Wire up IBT annotation in memory attributes table
  efi: arm64: Wire up BTI annotation in memory attributes table
  efi: Discover BTI support in runtime services regions
  efi/cper, cxl: Remove cxl_err.h
  efi: Use standard format for printing the EFI revision
  efi: Drop minimum EFI version check at boot
  efi: zboot: Use EFI protocol to remap code/data with the right attributes
  efi/libstub: Add memory attribute protocol definitions
  efi: efivars: prevent double registration
  efi: verify that variable services are supported
  efivarfs: always register filesystem
  efi: efivars: add efivars printk prefix
  efi: Warn if trying to reserve memory under Xen
  efi: Actually enable the ESRT under Xen
  efi: Apply allowlist to EFI configuration tables when running under Xen
  efi: xen: Implement memory descriptor lookup based on hypercall
  efi: memmap: Disregard bogus entries instead of returning them
  ...
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<title>arm64: efi: Make efi_rt_lock a raw_spinlock</title>
<updated>2023-02-19T13:40:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pierre Gondois</name>
<email>pierre.gondois@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-15T16:10:47+00:00</published>
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Running a rt-kernel base on 6.2.0-rc3-rt1 on an Ampere Altra outputs
the following:
  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:46
  in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 9, name: kworker/u320:0
  preempt_count: 2, expected: 0
  RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
  3 locks held by kworker/u320:0/9:
  #0: ffff3fff8c27d128 ((wq_completion)efi_rts_wq){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work (./include/linux/atomic/atomic-long.h:41)
  #1: ffff80000861bdd0 ((work_completion)(&amp;efi_rts_work.work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work (./include/linux/atomic/atomic-long.h:41)
  #2: ffffdf7e1ed3e460 (efi_rt_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: efi_call_rts (drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c:101)
  Preemption disabled at:
  efi_virtmap_load (./arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h:248)
  CPU: 0 PID: 9 Comm: kworker/u320:0 Tainted: G        W          6.2.0-rc3-rt1
  Hardware name: WIWYNN Mt.Jade Server System B81.03001.0005/Mt.Jade Motherboard, BIOS 1.08.20220218 (SCP: 1.08.20220218) 2022/02/18
  Workqueue: efi_rts_wq efi_call_rts
  Call trace:
  dump_backtrace (arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:158)
  show_stack (arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:165)
  dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:107 (discriminator 4))
  dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:114)
  __might_resched (kernel/sched/core.c:10134)
  rt_spin_lock (kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1769 (discriminator 4))
  efi_call_rts (drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c:101)
  [...]

This seems to come from commit ff7a167961d1 ("arm64: efi: Execute
runtime services from a dedicated stack") which adds a spinlock. This
spinlock is taken through:
efi_call_rts()
\-efi_call_virt()
  \-efi_call_virt_pointer()
    \-arch_efi_call_virt_setup()

Make 'efi_rt_lock' a raw_spinlock to avoid being preempted.

[ardb: The EFI runtime services are called with a different set of
       translation tables, and are permitted to use the SIMD registers.
       The context switch code preserves/restores neither, and so EFI
       calls must be made with preemption disabled, rather than only
       disabling migration.]

Fixes: ff7a167961d1 ("arm64: efi: Execute runtime services from a dedicated stack")
Signed-off-by: Pierre Gondois &lt;pierre.gondois@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v6.1+
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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Running a rt-kernel base on 6.2.0-rc3-rt1 on an Ampere Altra outputs
the following:
  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:46
  in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 9, name: kworker/u320:0
  preempt_count: 2, expected: 0
  RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
  3 locks held by kworker/u320:0/9:
  #0: ffff3fff8c27d128 ((wq_completion)efi_rts_wq){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work (./include/linux/atomic/atomic-long.h:41)
  #1: ffff80000861bdd0 ((work_completion)(&amp;efi_rts_work.work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work (./include/linux/atomic/atomic-long.h:41)
  #2: ffffdf7e1ed3e460 (efi_rt_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: efi_call_rts (drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c:101)
  Preemption disabled at:
  efi_virtmap_load (./arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h:248)
  CPU: 0 PID: 9 Comm: kworker/u320:0 Tainted: G        W          6.2.0-rc3-rt1
  Hardware name: WIWYNN Mt.Jade Server System B81.03001.0005/Mt.Jade Motherboard, BIOS 1.08.20220218 (SCP: 1.08.20220218) 2022/02/18
  Workqueue: efi_rts_wq efi_call_rts
  Call trace:
  dump_backtrace (arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:158)
  show_stack (arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:165)
  dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:107 (discriminator 4))
  dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:114)
  __might_resched (kernel/sched/core.c:10134)
  rt_spin_lock (kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1769 (discriminator 4))
  efi_call_rts (drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c:101)
  [...]

This seems to come from commit ff7a167961d1 ("arm64: efi: Execute
runtime services from a dedicated stack") which adds a spinlock. This
spinlock is taken through:
efi_call_rts()
\-efi_call_virt()
  \-efi_call_virt_pointer()
    \-arch_efi_call_virt_setup()

Make 'efi_rt_lock' a raw_spinlock to avoid being preempted.

[ardb: The EFI runtime services are called with a different set of
       translation tables, and are permitted to use the SIMD registers.
       The context switch code preserves/restores neither, and so EFI
       calls must be made with preemption disabled, rather than only
       disabling migration.]

Fixes: ff7a167961d1 ("arm64: efi: Execute runtime services from a dedicated stack")
Signed-off-by: Pierre Gondois &lt;pierre.gondois@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v6.1+
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>efi: arm64: Wire up BTI annotation in memory attributes table</title>
<updated>2023-02-09T16:39:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-01T08:50:07+00:00</published>
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UEFI v2.10 extends the EFI memory attributes table with a flag that
indicates whether or not all RuntimeServicesCode regions were
constructed with BTI landing pads, permitting the OS to map these
regions with BTI restrictions enabled.

So let's take this into account on arm64.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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UEFI v2.10 extends the EFI memory attributes table with a flag that
indicates whether or not all RuntimeServicesCode regions were
constructed with BTI landing pads, permitting the OS to map these
regions with BTI restrictions enabled.

So let's take this into account on arm64.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>efi: Discover BTI support in runtime services regions</title>
<updated>2023-02-04T08:19:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-01T08:48:12+00:00</published>
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Add the generic plumbing to detect whether or not the runtime code
regions were constructed with BTI/IBT landing pads by the firmware,
permitting the OS to enable enforcement when mapping these regions into
the OS's address space.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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Add the generic plumbing to detect whether or not the runtime code
regions were constructed with BTI/IBT landing pads by the firmware,
permitting the OS to enable enforcement when mapping these regions into
the OS's address space.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: efi: Avoid workqueue to check whether EFI runtime is live</title>
<updated>2023-01-16T14:27:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-28T14:39:14+00:00</published>
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Comparing current_work() against efi_rts_work.work is sufficient to
decide whether current is currently running EFI runtime services code at
any level in its call stack.

However, there are other potential users of the EFI runtime stack, such
as the ACPI subsystem, which may invoke efi_call_virt_pointer()
directly, and so any sync exceptions occurring in firmware during those
calls are currently misidentified.

So instead, let's check whether the stashed value of the thread stack
pointer points into current's thread stack. This can only be the case if
current was interrupted while running EFI runtime code. Note that this
implies that we should clear the stashed value after switching back, to
avoid false positives.

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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Comparing current_work() against efi_rts_work.work is sufficient to
decide whether current is currently running EFI runtime services code at
any level in its call stack.

However, there are other potential users of the EFI runtime stack, such
as the ACPI subsystem, which may invoke efi_call_virt_pointer()
directly, and so any sync exceptions occurring in firmware during those
calls are currently misidentified.

So instead, let's check whether the stashed value of the thread stack
pointer points into current's thread stack. This can only be the case if
current was interrupted while running EFI runtime code. Note that this
implies that we should clear the stashed value after switching back, to
avoid false positives.

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: efi: Recover from synchronous exceptions occurring in firmware</title>
<updated>2022-12-08T17:33:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-28T14:39:14+00:00</published>
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Unlike x86, which has machinery to deal with page faults that occur
during the execution of EFI runtime services, arm64 has nothing like
that, and a synchronous exception raised by firmware code brings down
the whole system.

With more EFI based systems appearing that were not built to run Linux
(such as the Windows-on-ARM laptops based on Qualcomm SOCs), as well as
the introduction of PRM (platform specific firmware routines that are
callable just like EFI runtime services), we are more likely to run into
issues of this sort, and it is much more likely that we can identify and
work around such issues if they don't bring down the system entirely.

Since we already use a EFI runtime services call wrapper in assembler,
we can quite easily add some code that captures the execution state at
the point where the call is made, allowing us to revert to this state
and proceed execution if the call triggered a synchronous exception.

Given that the kernel and the firmware don't share any data structures
that could end up in an indeterminate state, we can happily continue
running, as long as we mark the EFI runtime services as unavailable from
that point on.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Unlike x86, which has machinery to deal with page faults that occur
during the execution of EFI runtime services, arm64 has nothing like
that, and a synchronous exception raised by firmware code brings down
the whole system.

With more EFI based systems appearing that were not built to run Linux
(such as the Windows-on-ARM laptops based on Qualcomm SOCs), as well as
the introduction of PRM (platform specific firmware routines that are
callable just like EFI runtime services), we are more likely to run into
issues of this sort, and it is much more likely that we can identify and
work around such issues if they don't bring down the system entirely.

Since we already use a EFI runtime services call wrapper in assembler,
we can quite easily add some code that captures the execution state at
the point where the call is made, allowing us to revert to this state
and proceed execution if the call triggered a synchronous exception.

Given that the kernel and the firmware don't share any data structures
that could end up in an indeterminate state, we can happily continue
running, as long as we mark the EFI runtime services as unavailable from
that point on.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: efi: Execute runtime services from a dedicated stack</title>
<updated>2022-12-08T07:59:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-05T10:31:25+00:00</published>
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With the introduction of PRMT in the ACPI subsystem, the EFI rts
workqueue is no longer the only caller of efi_call_virt_pointer() in the
kernel. This means the EFI runtime services lock is no longer sufficient
to manage concurrent calls into firmware, but also that firmware calls
may occur that are not marshalled via the workqueue mechanism, but
originate directly from the caller context.

For added robustness, and to ensure that the runtime services have 8 KiB
of stack space available as per the EFI spec, introduce a spinlock
protected EFI runtime stack of 8 KiB, where the spinlock also ensures
serialization between the EFI rts workqueue (which itself serializes EFI
runtime calls) and other callers of efi_call_virt_pointer().

While at it, use the stack pivot to avoid reloading the shadow call
stack pointer from the ordinary stack, as doing so could produce a
gadget to defeat it.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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With the introduction of PRMT in the ACPI subsystem, the EFI rts
workqueue is no longer the only caller of efi_call_virt_pointer() in the
kernel. This means the EFI runtime services lock is no longer sufficient
to manage concurrent calls into firmware, but also that firmware calls
may occur that are not marshalled via the workqueue mechanism, but
originate directly from the caller context.

For added robustness, and to ensure that the runtime services have 8 KiB
of stack space available as per the EFI spec, introduce a spinlock
protected EFI runtime stack of 8 KiB, where the spinlock also ensures
serialization between the EFI rts workqueue (which itself serializes EFI
runtime calls) and other callers of efi_call_virt_pointer().

While at it, use the stack pivot to avoid reloading the shadow call
stack pointer from the ordinary stack, as doing so could produce a
gadget to defeat it.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: efi: Revert "Recover from synchronous exceptions ..."</title>
<updated>2022-12-01T13:48:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-30T16:37:17+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 23715a26c8d81291, which introduced some code in
assembler that manipulates both the ordinary and the shadow call stack
pointer in a way that could potentially be taken advantage of. So let's
revert it, and do a better job the next time around.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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This reverts commit 23715a26c8d81291, which introduced some code in
assembler that manipulates both the ordinary and the shadow call stack
pointer in a way that could potentially be taken advantage of. So let's
revert it, and do a better job the next time around.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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<title>arm64: efi: Fix handling of misaligned runtime regions and drop warning</title>
<updated>2022-11-10T22:14:15+00:00</updated>
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<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2022-11-06T14:53:54+00:00</published>
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Currently, when mapping the EFI runtime regions in the EFI page tables,
we complain about misaligned regions in a rather noisy way, using
WARN().

Not only does this produce a lot of irrelevant clutter in the log, it is
factually incorrect, as misaligned runtime regions are actually allowed
by the EFI spec as long as they don't require conflicting memory types
within the same 64k page.

So let's drop the warning, and tweak the code so that we
- take both the start and end of the region into account when checking
  for misalignment
- only revert to RWX mappings for non-code regions if misaligned code
  regions are also known to exist.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently, when mapping the EFI runtime regions in the EFI page tables,
we complain about misaligned regions in a rather noisy way, using
WARN().

Not only does this produce a lot of irrelevant clutter in the log, it is
factually incorrect, as misaligned runtime regions are actually allowed
by the EFI spec as long as they don't require conflicting memory types
within the same 64k page.

So let's drop the warning, and tweak the code so that we
- take both the start and end of the region into account when checking
  for misalignment
- only revert to RWX mappings for non-code regions if misaligned code
  regions are also known to exist.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>arm64: efi: Recover from synchronous exceptions occurring in firmware</title>
<updated>2022-11-03T17:01:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2022-10-28T14:39:14+00:00</published>
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Unlike x86, which has machinery to deal with page faults that occur
during the execution of EFI runtime services, arm64 has nothing like
that, and a synchronous exception raised by firmware code brings down
the whole system.

With more EFI based systems appearing that were not built to run Linux
(such as the Windows-on-ARM laptops based on Qualcomm SOCs), as well as
the introduction of PRM (platform specific firmware routines that are
callable just like EFI runtime services), we are more likely to run into
issues of this sort, and it is much more likely that we can identify and
work around such issues if they don't bring down the system entirely.

Since we already use a EFI runtime services call wrapper in assembler,
we can quite easily add some code that captures the execution state at
the point where the call is made, allowing us to revert to this state
and proceed execution if the call triggered a synchronous exception.

Given that the kernel and the firmware don't share any data structures
that could end up in an indeterminate state, we can happily continue
running, as long as we mark the EFI runtime services as unavailable from
that point on.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Unlike x86, which has machinery to deal with page faults that occur
during the execution of EFI runtime services, arm64 has nothing like
that, and a synchronous exception raised by firmware code brings down
the whole system.

With more EFI based systems appearing that were not built to run Linux
(such as the Windows-on-ARM laptops based on Qualcomm SOCs), as well as
the introduction of PRM (platform specific firmware routines that are
callable just like EFI runtime services), we are more likely to run into
issues of this sort, and it is much more likely that we can identify and
work around such issues if they don't bring down the system entirely.

Since we already use a EFI runtime services call wrapper in assembler,
we can quite easily add some code that captures the execution state at
the point where the call is made, allowing us to revert to this state
and proceed execution if the call triggered a synchronous exception.

Given that the kernel and the firmware don't share any data structures
that could end up in an indeterminate state, we can happily continue
running, as long as we mark the EFI runtime services as unavailable from
that point on.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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