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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/efivarfs, branch v5.17-rc1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>efivars: convert to fileattr</title>
<updated>2021-04-12T13:04:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-07T12:36:44+00:00</published>
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Use the fileattr API to let the VFS handle locking, permission checking and
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@srcf.ucam.org&gt;
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Use the fileattr API to let the VFS handle locking, permission checking and
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@srcf.ucam.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: make helpers idmap mount aware</title>
<updated>2021-01-24T13:27:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>christian.brauner@ubuntu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-21T13:19:43+00:00</published>
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Extend some inode methods with an additional user namespace argument. A
filesystem that is aware of idmapped mounts will receive the user
namespace the mount has been marked with. This can be used for
additional permission checking and also to enable filesystems to
translate between uids and gids if they need to. We have implemented all
relevant helpers in earlier patches.

As requested we simply extend the exisiting inode method instead of
introducing new ones. This is a little more code churn but it's mostly
mechanical and doesnt't leave us with additional inode methods.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-25-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
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Extend some inode methods with an additional user namespace argument. A
filesystem that is aware of idmapped mounts will receive the user
namespace the mount has been marked with. This can be used for
additional permission checking and also to enable filesystems to
translate between uids and gids if they need to. We have implemented all
relevant helpers in earlier patches.

As requested we simply extend the exisiting inode method instead of
introducing new ones. This is a little more code churn but it's mostly
mechanical and doesnt't leave us with additional inode methods.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-25-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>inode: make init and permission helpers idmapped mount aware</title>
<updated>2021-01-24T13:27:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>christian.brauner@ubuntu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-21T13:19:25+00:00</published>
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The inode_owner_or_capable() helper determines whether the caller is the
owner of the inode or is capable with respect to that inode. Allow it to
handle idmapped mounts. If the inode is accessed through an idmapped
mount it according to the mount's user namespace. Afterwards the checks
are identical to non-idmapped mounts. If the initial user namespace is
passed nothing changes so non-idmapped mounts will see identical
behavior as before.

Similarly, allow the inode_init_owner() helper to handle idmapped
mounts. It initializes a new inode on idmapped mounts by mapping the
fsuid and fsgid of the caller from the mount's user namespace. If the
initial user namespace is passed nothing changes so non-idmapped mounts
will see identical behavior as before.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-7-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Morris &lt;jamorris@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
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The inode_owner_or_capable() helper determines whether the caller is the
owner of the inode or is capable with respect to that inode. Allow it to
handle idmapped mounts. If the inode is accessed through an idmapped
mount it according to the mount's user namespace. Afterwards the checks
are identical to non-idmapped mounts. If the initial user namespace is
passed nothing changes so non-idmapped mounts will see identical
behavior as before.

Similarly, allow the inode_init_owner() helper to handle idmapped
mounts. It initializes a new inode on idmapped mounts by mapping the
fsuid and fsgid of the caller from the mount's user namespace. If the
initial user namespace is passed nothing changes so non-idmapped mounts
will see identical behavior as before.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-7-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Morris &lt;jamorris@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>efivarfs: revert "fix memory leak in efivarfs_create()"</title>
<updated>2020-11-25T15:55:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-25T07:45:55+00:00</published>
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The memory leak addressed by commit fe5186cf12e3 is a false positive:
all allocations are recorded in a linked list, and freed when the
filesystem is unmounted. This leads to double frees, and as reported
by David, leads to crashes if SLUB is configured to self destruct when
double frees occur.

So drop the redundant kfree() again, and instead, mark the offending
pointer variable so the allocation is ignored by kmemleak.

Cc: Vamshi K Sthambamkadi &lt;vamshi.k.sthambamkadi@gmail.com&gt;
Fixes: fe5186cf12e3 ("efivarfs: fix memory leak in efivarfs_create()")
Reported-by: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@aculab.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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The memory leak addressed by commit fe5186cf12e3 is a false positive:
all allocations are recorded in a linked list, and freed when the
filesystem is unmounted. This leads to double frees, and as reported
by David, leads to crashes if SLUB is configured to self destruct when
double frees occur.

So drop the redundant kfree() again, and instead, mark the offending
pointer variable so the allocation is ignored by kmemleak.

Cc: Vamshi K Sthambamkadi &lt;vamshi.k.sthambamkadi@gmail.com&gt;
Fixes: fe5186cf12e3 ("efivarfs: fix memory leak in efivarfs_create()")
Reported-by: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@aculab.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>efivarfs: fix memory leak in efivarfs_create()</title>
<updated>2020-10-26T07:15:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vamshi K Sthambamkadi</name>
<email>vamshi.k.sthambamkadi@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-23T11:54:39+00:00</published>
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kmemleak report:
  unreferenced object 0xffff9b8915fcb000 (size 4096):
  comm "efivarfs.sh", pid 2360, jiffies 4294920096 (age 48.264s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    2d 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  -...............
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [&lt;00000000cc4d897c&gt;] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x155/0x4b0
    [&lt;000000007d1dfa72&gt;] efivarfs_create+0x6e/0x1a0
    [&lt;00000000e6ee18fc&gt;] path_openat+0xe4b/0x1120
    [&lt;000000000ad0414f&gt;] do_filp_open+0x91/0x100
    [&lt;00000000ce93a198&gt;] do_sys_openat2+0x20c/0x2d0
    [&lt;000000002a91be6d&gt;] do_sys_open+0x46/0x80
    [&lt;000000000a854999&gt;] __x64_sys_openat+0x20/0x30
    [&lt;00000000c50d89c9&gt;] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90
    [&lt;00000000cecd6b5f&gt;] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

In efivarfs_create(), inode-&gt;i_private is setup with efivar_entry
object which is never freed.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vamshi K Sthambamkadi &lt;vamshi.k.sthambamkadi@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201023115429.GA2479@cosmos
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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kmemleak report:
  unreferenced object 0xffff9b8915fcb000 (size 4096):
  comm "efivarfs.sh", pid 2360, jiffies 4294920096 (age 48.264s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    2d 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  -...............
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [&lt;00000000cc4d897c&gt;] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x155/0x4b0
    [&lt;000000007d1dfa72&gt;] efivarfs_create+0x6e/0x1a0
    [&lt;00000000e6ee18fc&gt;] path_openat+0xe4b/0x1120
    [&lt;000000000ad0414f&gt;] do_filp_open+0x91/0x100
    [&lt;00000000ce93a198&gt;] do_sys_openat2+0x20c/0x2d0
    [&lt;000000002a91be6d&gt;] do_sys_open+0x46/0x80
    [&lt;000000000a854999&gt;] __x64_sys_openat+0x20/0x30
    [&lt;00000000c50d89c9&gt;] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90
    [&lt;00000000cecd6b5f&gt;] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

In efivarfs_create(), inode-&gt;i_private is setup with efivar_entry
object which is never freed.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vamshi K Sthambamkadi &lt;vamshi.k.sthambamkadi@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201023115429.GA2479@cosmos
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>efivarfs: Replace invalid slashes with exclamation marks in dentries.</title>
<updated>2020-09-25T21:29:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Schaller</name>
<email>misch@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-25T07:45:02+00:00</published>
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Without this patch efivarfs_alloc_dentry creates dentries with slashes in
their name if the respective EFI variable has slashes in its name. This in
turn causes EIO on getdents64, which prevents a complete directory listing
of /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/.

This patch replaces the invalid shlashes with exclamation marks like
kobject_set_name_vargs does for /sys/firmware/efi/vars/ to have consistently
named dentries under /sys/firmware/efi/vars/ and /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/.

Signed-off-by: Michael Schaller &lt;misch@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200925074502.150448-1-misch@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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Without this patch efivarfs_alloc_dentry creates dentries with slashes in
their name if the respective EFI variable has slashes in its name. This in
turn causes EIO on getdents64, which prevents a complete directory listing
of /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/.

This patch replaces the invalid shlashes with exclamation marks like
kobject_set_name_vargs does for /sys/firmware/efi/vars/ to have consistently
named dentries under /sys/firmware/efi/vars/ and /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/.

Signed-off-by: Michael Schaller &lt;misch@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200925074502.150448-1-misch@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>efi/efivars: Expose RT service availability via efivars abstraction</title>
<updated>2020-07-09T07:14:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-08T10:01:57+00:00</published>
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Commit

  bf67fad19e493b ("efi: Use more granular check for availability for variable services")

introduced a check into the efivarfs, efi-pstore and other drivers that
aborts loading of the module if not all three variable runtime services
(GetVariable, SetVariable and GetNextVariable) are supported. However, this
results in efivarfs being unavailable entirely if only SetVariable support
is missing, which is only needed if you want to make any modifications.
Also, efi-pstore and the sysfs EFI variable interface could be backed by
another implementation of the 'efivars' abstraction, in which case it is
completely irrelevant which services are supported by the EFI firmware.

So make the generic 'efivars' abstraction dependent on the availibility of
the GetVariable and GetNextVariable EFI runtime services, and add a helper
'efivar_supports_writes()' to find out whether the currently active efivars
abstraction supports writes (and wire it up to the availability of
SetVariable for the generic one).

Then, use the efivar_supports_writes() helper to decide whether to permit
efivarfs to be mounted read-write, and whether to enable efi-pstore or the
sysfs EFI variable interface altogether.

Fixes: bf67fad19e493b ("efi: Use more granular check for availability for variable services")
Reported-by: Heinrich Schuchardt &lt;xypron.glpk@gmx.de&gt;
Acked-by: Ilias Apalodimas &lt;ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Ilias Apalodimas &lt;ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit

  bf67fad19e493b ("efi: Use more granular check for availability for variable services")

introduced a check into the efivarfs, efi-pstore and other drivers that
aborts loading of the module if not all three variable runtime services
(GetVariable, SetVariable and GetNextVariable) are supported. However, this
results in efivarfs being unavailable entirely if only SetVariable support
is missing, which is only needed if you want to make any modifications.
Also, efi-pstore and the sysfs EFI variable interface could be backed by
another implementation of the 'efivars' abstraction, in which case it is
completely irrelevant which services are supported by the EFI firmware.

So make the generic 'efivars' abstraction dependent on the availibility of
the GetVariable and GetNextVariable EFI runtime services, and add a helper
'efivar_supports_writes()' to find out whether the currently active efivars
abstraction supports writes (and wire it up to the availability of
SetVariable for the generic one).

Then, use the efivar_supports_writes() helper to decide whether to permit
efivarfs to be mounted read-write, and whether to enable efi-pstore or the
sysfs EFI variable interface altogether.

Fixes: bf67fad19e493b ("efi: Use more granular check for availability for variable services")
Reported-by: Heinrich Schuchardt &lt;xypron.glpk@gmx.de&gt;
Acked-by: Ilias Apalodimas &lt;ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Ilias Apalodimas &lt;ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>efivarfs: Don't return -EINTR when rate-limiting reads</title>
<updated>2020-06-15T12:38:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tony Luck</name>
<email>tony.luck@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-28T19:49:05+00:00</published>
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Applications that read EFI variables may see a return
value of -EINTR if they exceed the rate limit and a
signal delivery is attempted while the process is sleeping.

This is quite surprising to the application, which probably
doesn't have code to handle it.

Change the interruptible sleep to a non-interruptible one.

Reported-by: Lennart Poettering &lt;mzxreary@0pointer.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200528194905.690-3-tony.luck@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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Applications that read EFI variables may see a return
value of -EINTR if they exceed the rate limit and a
signal delivery is attempted while the process is sleeping.

This is quite surprising to the application, which probably
doesn't have code to handle it.

Change the interruptible sleep to a non-interruptible one.

Reported-by: Lennart Poettering &lt;mzxreary@0pointer.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200528194905.690-3-tony.luck@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>efivarfs: Update inode modification time for successful writes</title>
<updated>2020-06-15T12:38:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tony Luck</name>
<email>tony.luck@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-28T19:49:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=2096721f1577b51b574fa06a7d91823dffe7267a'/>
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Some applications want to be able to see when EFI variables
have been updated.

Update the modification time for successful writes.

Reported-by: Lennart Poettering &lt;mzxreary@0pointer.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200528194905.690-2-tony.luck@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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Some applications want to be able to see when EFI variables
have been updated.

Update the modification time for successful writes.

Reported-by: Lennart Poettering &lt;mzxreary@0pointer.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200528194905.690-2-tony.luck@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>efi: Use more granular check for availability for variable services</title>
<updated>2020-02-23T20:59:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-23T08:12:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=bf67fad19e493bd3f7267b35b97b860280f87acc'/>
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The UEFI spec rev 2.8 permits firmware implementations to support only
a subset of EFI runtime services at OS runtime (i.e., after the call to
ExitBootServices()), so let's take this into account in the drivers that
rely specifically on the availability of the EFI variable services.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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The UEFI spec rev 2.8 permits firmware implementations to support only
a subset of EFI runtime services at OS runtime (i.e., after the call to
ExitBootServices()), so let's take this into account in the drivers that
rely specifically on the availability of the EFI variable services.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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