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 when running under Xen, check the EFI memory descriptor covering the
start of the table, and disregard the table if it does not reside in
memory that is preserved by Xen.
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 | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/efi.h | 2 ++
3 files changed, 33 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
index 2c12b1a06481..0a4583c13a40 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
@@ -560,6 +560,13 @@ 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 74f3f6d8cdc8..c275a9c377fe 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/efi.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/efi.c
@@ -326,3 +326,27 @@ int efi_mem_desc_lookup(u64 phys_addr, efi_memory_desc_t *out_md)
return 0;
}
+
+bool __init xen_efi_config_table_is_usable(const efi_guid_t *guid,
+ unsigned long table)
+{
+ efi_memory_desc_t md;
+ int rc;
+
+ if (!efi_enabled(EFI_PARAVIRT))
+ return true;
+
+ rc = efi_mem_desc_lookup(table, &md);
+ if (rc)
+ return false;
+
+ switch (md.type) {
+ case EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_CODE:
+ case EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_DATA:
+ case EFI_ACPI_RECLAIM_MEMORY:
+ case EFI_RESERVED_TYPE:
+ return true;
+ }
+
+ return false;
+}
diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h
index e0ee6f6da4b4..b0cba86352ce 100644
--- a/include/linux/efi.h
+++ b/include/linux/efi.h
@@ -1352,4 +1352,6 @@ 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
