As it turns out, Xen does not guarantee that EFI bootservices data
regions in memory are preserved, which means that EFI configuration
tables pointing into such memory regions may be corrupted before the
dom0 OS has had a chance to inspect them.
Demi Marie reports that this is causing problems for Qubes OS when it
attempts to perform system firmware updates, which requires that the
contents of the ESRT configuration table are valid when the fwupd user
space program runs.
However, other configuration tables such as the memory attributes
table or the runtime properties table are equally affected, and so we
need a comprehensive workaround that works for any table type.
So let's first disregard all EFI configuration tables except the ones
that are known (or can be expected) to reside in memory regions of a
type that Xen preserves, i.e., ACPI tables (which are passed in
EfiAcpiReclaimMemory regions) and SMBIOS tables (which are usually
passed in EfiRuntimeServicesData regions, even though the UEFI spec only
mentions this as a recommendation). Then, cross reference unknown tables
against either the EFI memory map (if available) or do a Xen hypercall
to determine the memory type, and allow the config table if the type is
one that is guaranteed to be preserved.
Future patches can augment the logic in this routine to allow other
table types based on the size of the allocation, or based on a table
specific header size field.
Co-developed-by: Demi Marie Obenour <demi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Demi Marie Obenour <demi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 7 ++
drivers/xen/efi.c | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/efi.h | 2 +
3 files changed, 78 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
index 11857af72859..e8c0747011d7 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
@@ -556,6 +556,13 @@ static __init int match_config_table(const efi_guid_t *guid,
for (i = 0; efi_guidcmp(table_types[i].guid, NULL_GUID); i++) {
if (!efi_guidcmp(*guid, table_types[i].guid)) {
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_XEN_EFI) &&
+ !xen_efi_config_table_is_usable(guid, table)) {
+ if (table_types[i].name[0])
+ pr_cont("(%s=0x%lx) ",
+ table_types[i].name, table);
+ return 1;
+ }
*(table_types[i].ptr) = table;
if (table_types[i].name[0])
pr_cont("%s=0x%lx ",
diff --git a/drivers/xen/efi.c b/drivers/xen/efi.c
index d1ff2186ebb4..3f1f365b37d0 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/efi.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/efi.c
@@ -292,3 +292,72 @@ void __init xen_efi_runtime_setup(void)
efi.get_next_high_mono_count = xen_efi_get_next_high_mono_count;
efi.reset_system = xen_efi_reset_system;
}
+
+static const efi_guid_t cfg_table_allow_list[] __initconst = {
+ ACPI_20_TABLE_GUID,
+ ACPI_TABLE_GUID,
+ SMBIOS_TABLE_GUID,
+ SMBIOS3_TABLE_GUID,
+};
+
+bool __init xen_efi_config_table_is_usable(const efi_guid_t *guid,
+ unsigned long table)
+{
+ u32 memtype;
+ int i, rc;
+
+ if (!efi_enabled(EFI_PARAVIRT))
+ return true;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(cfg_table_allow_list); i++) {
+ if (!efi_guidcmp(*guid, cfg_table_allow_list[i]))
+ return true;
+ }
+
+ if (efi_enabled(EFI_MEMMAP)) {
+ /* check against the EFI memory map */
+ efi_memory_desc_t md;
+
+ rc = efi_mem_desc_lookup(table, &md);
+ if (rc) {
+ pr_warn("Failed to lookup header 0x%lx in EFI memory map (%d)\n",
+ table, rc);
+ return false;
+ }
+ memtype = md.type;
+ } else {
+ /* check against the Xen hypercall */
+ struct xen_platform_op op = {
+ .cmd = XENPF_firmware_info,
+ .u.firmware_info = {
+ .type = XEN_FW_EFI_INFO,
+ .index = XEN_FW_EFI_MEM_INFO,
+ .u.efi_info.mem.addr = table,
+ .u.efi_info.mem.size = U64_MAX - table,
+ }
+ };
+ union xenpf_efi_info *info = &op.u.firmware_info.u.efi_info;
+
+ rc = HYPERVISOR_platform_op(&op);
+ if (rc) {
+ pr_warn("Failed to lookup header 0x%lx in Xen memory map (%d)\n",
+ table, rc);
+ return false;
+ }
+ memtype = info->mem.type;
+ }
+
+ switch (memtype) {
+ case EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_CODE:
+ case EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_DATA:
+ case EFI_ACPI_RECLAIM_MEMORY:
+ case EFI_RESERVED_TYPE:
+ return true;
+ case EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA:
+ break;
+ default:
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ return false;
+}
diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h
index 256e70e42114..6edc627798b6 100644
--- a/include/linux/efi.h
+++ b/include/linux/efi.h
@@ -1351,4 +1351,6 @@ struct linux_efi_initrd {
/* Header of a populated EFI secret area */
#define EFI_SECRET_TABLE_HEADER_GUID EFI_GUID(0x1e74f542, 0x71dd, 0x4d66, 0x96, 0x3e, 0xef, 0x42, 0x87, 0xff, 0x17, 0x3b)
+bool xen_efi_config_table_is_usable(const efi_guid_t *, unsigned long table);
+
#endif /* _LINUX_EFI_H */
--
2.35.1
