On 2/9/2017 3:16 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On arm64, we have made some changes over the past year to the way the
> kernel itself is allocated and to how it deals with the initrd and FDT.
> This patch brings the allocation logic in the EFI stub in line with that,
> which is necessary because the introduction of KASLR has created the
> possibility for the initrd to be allocated in a place where the kernel
> may not be able to map it. (This is currently a theoretical scenario,
> since it only affects systems where the size of RAM exceeds the size of
> the linear mapping.)
>
> So adhere to the arm64 boot protocol, and make sure that the initrd is
> fully inside a 1GB aligned 32 GB window that covers the kernel as well.
>
> The FDT may be anywhere in memory on arm64 now that we map it via the
> fixmap, so we can lift the address restriction there completely.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm/include/asm/efi.h | 14 +++++++++++++-
> arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
> drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c | 7 ++++---
> 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/efi.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/efi.h
> index 0b06f5341b45..62620451f60b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/efi.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/efi.h
> @@ -84,6 +84,18 @@ static inline void efifb_setup_from_dmi(struct screen_info *si, const char *opt)
> */
> #define ZIMAGE_OFFSET_LIMIT SZ_128M
> #define MIN_ZIMAGE_OFFSET MAX_UNCOMP_KERNEL_SIZE
> -#define MAX_FDT_OFFSET ZIMAGE_OFFSET_LIMIT
> +
> +/* on ARM, the FDT should be located in the first 128 MB of RAM */
> +static inline unsigned long efi_get_max_fdt_addr(unsigned long dram_base)
> +{
> + return dram_base + ZIMAGE_OFFSET_LIMIT;
> +}
> +
> +/* on ARM, the initrd should be loaded in a lowmem region */
> +static inline unsigned long efi_get_max_initrd_addr(unsigned long dram_base,
> + unsigned long image_addr)
> +{
> + return dram_base + SZ_512M;
> +}
>
> #endif /* _ASM_ARM_EFI_H */
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h
> index 0b6b1633017f..6a6c8a0d1424 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h
> @@ -46,7 +46,24 @@ int efi_set_mapping_permissions(struct mm_struct *mm, efi_memory_desc_t *md);
> * 2MiB so we know it won't cross a 2MiB boundary.
> */
> #define EFI_FDT_ALIGN SZ_2M /* used by allocate_new_fdt_and_exit_boot() */
> -#define MAX_FDT_OFFSET SZ_512M
> +
> +/* on arm64, the FDT may be located anywhere in system RAM */
> +static inline unsigned long efi_get_max_fdt_addr(unsigned long dram_base)
> +{
> + return ULONG_MAX;
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * On arm64, the initrd must be completely inside a 1 GB aligned 32 GB window
> + * that covers Image as well. Since we allocate from the top down, set a max
> + * address that is virtually guaranteed to produce a suitable allocation even
> + * when the physical address of Image is randomized.
> + */
> +static inline unsigned long efi_get_max_initrd_addr(unsigned long dram_base,
> + unsigned long image_addr)
> +{
> + return ALIGN(image_addr, SZ_1G) + 31UL * SZ_1G;
> +}
>
> #define efi_call_early(f, ...) sys_table_arg->boottime->f(__VA_ARGS__)
> #define __efi_call_early(f, ...) f(__VA_ARGS__)
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c
> index b4f7d78f9e8b..557281fe375f 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c
> @@ -333,8 +333,9 @@ unsigned long efi_entry(void *handle, efi_system_table_t *sys_table,
> if (!fdt_addr)
> pr_efi(sys_table, "Generating empty DTB\n");
>
> - status = handle_cmdline_files(sys_table, image, cmdline_ptr,
> - "initrd=", dram_base + SZ_512M,
> + status = handle_cmdline_files(sys_table, image, cmdline_ptr, "initrd=",
> + efi_get_max_initrd_addr(dram_base,
> + *image_addr),
> (unsigned long *)&initrd_addr,
> (unsigned long *)&initrd_size);
> if (status != EFI_SUCCESS)
> @@ -344,7 +345,7 @@ unsigned long efi_entry(void *handle, efi_system_table_t *sys_table,
>
> new_fdt_addr = fdt_addr;
> status = allocate_new_fdt_and_exit_boot(sys_table, handle,
> - &new_fdt_addr, dram_base + MAX_FDT_OFFSET,
> + &new_fdt_addr, efi_get_max_fdt_addr(dram_base),
> initrd_addr, initrd_size, cmdline_ptr,
> fdt_addr, fdt_size);
>
This was tested successfully on our QDT2400 system on which we found this failure.
Tested-by: Richard Ruigrok <rruigrok@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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