Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] efi/x86: Implement mixed mode boot without the handover protocol

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On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 06:12:40PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 at 17:39, Arvind Sankar <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 03:48:21PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > > Add support for booting 64-bit x86 kernels from 32-bit firmware running
> > > on 64-bit capable CPUs without requiring the bootloader to implement
> > > the EFI handover protocol or allocate the setup block, etc etc, all of
> > > which can be done by the stub itself, using code that already exists.
> > >
> > > Instead, create an ordinary EFI application entrypoint but implemented
> > > in 32-bit code [so that it can be invoked by 32-bit firmware], and stash
> > > the address of this 32-bit entrypoint in the .compat section where the
> > > bootloader can find it.
> > >
> > > Note that we use the setup block embedded in the binary to go through
> > > startup_32(), but it gets reallocated and copied in efi_pe_entry(),
> > > using the same code that runs when the x86 kernel is booted in EFI
> > > mode from native firmware. This requires the loaded image protocol to
> > > be installed on the kernel image's EFI handle, and point to the kernel
> > > image itself and not to its loader. This, in turn, requires the
> > > bootloader to use the LoadImage() boot service to load the 64-bit
> > > image from 32-bit firmware, which is in fact supported by firmware
> > > based on EDK2. (Only StartImage() will fail, and instead, the newly
> > > added entrypoint needs to be invoked)
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > I think there's one issue with this. startup_32 is 14KiB from the start
> > of the image because of .setup. This means the code in startup_32 that
> > rounds the load address up to kernel_alignment will likely calculate it
> > as 2MiB from the image address (if the image address was 2MiB-aligned),
> > and the page tables constructed by the 32-bit code will be beyond the
> > space allocated for the image.
> >
> 
> Right. Image address could be any multiple of 4 KB so we'll have to
> deal with that.
> 
> > I think the simplest fix would be to increase SizeOfImage by
> > kernel_alignment to allow enough slop space for the alignment.
> 
> So we basically need at least 2 MB - 14 KB slack at the top, right?
> That's easily done.
> 
> > We should
> > also increase it by text_start, since we need init_size beginning from
> > startup_32, not from the image address.
> 
> So something like the below?

Yup.

You might as well do the text_start bit unconditionally I think? If by
some blind stroke of luck startup_32 ends up at pref_address and so we
don't call efi_relocate_kernel, we'll need the room.

> 
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c
> @@ -236,14 +236,23 @@
> 
>         pe_header = get_unaligned_le32(&buf[0x3c]);
> 
> +#ifdef CONFIG_EFI_MIXED
> +       /*
> +        * In order for startup_32 to safely execute in place, we need to give
> +        * it a bit of headroom to create its page tables.
> +        */
> +       bss_sz += text_start + CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN;
> +       init_sz += text_start + CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN;
> +#endif
> +
>         /*
>          * Size of code: Subtract the size of the first sector (512 bytes)
>          * which includes the header.
>          */
> -       put_unaligned_le32(file_sz - 512, &buf[pe_header + 0x1c]);
> +       put_unaligned_le32(file_sz + bss_sz- 512, &buf[pe_header + 0x1c]);
> 
>         /* Size of uninitialized data */
> -       put_unaligned_le32(bss_sz, &buf[pe_header + 0x24]);
> +       put_unaligned_le32(0, &buf[pe_header + 0x24]);
> 
>         /* Size of image */
>         put_unaligned_le32(init_sz, &buf[pe_header + 0x50]);



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