This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled efi: efivars: Fix variable writes without query_variable_store() to the 6.0-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: efi-efivars-fix-variable-writes-without-query_variable_store.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 8a254d90a77580244ec57e82bca7eb65656cc167 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 23:29:58 +0200 Subject: efi: efivars: Fix variable writes without query_variable_store() From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 8a254d90a77580244ec57e82bca7eb65656cc167 upstream. Commit bbc6d2c6ef22 ("efi: vars: Switch to new wrapper layer") refactored the efivars layer so that the 'business logic' related to which UEFI variables affect the boot flow in which way could be moved out of it, and into the efivarfs driver. This inadvertently broke setting variables on firmware implementations that lack the QueryVariableInfo() boot service, because we no longer tolerate a EFI_UNSUPPORTED result from check_var_size() when calling efivar_entry_set_get_size(), which now ends up calling check_var_size() a second time inadvertently. If QueryVariableInfo() is missing, we support writes of up to 64k - let's move that logic into check_var_size(), and drop the redundant call. Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v6.0 Fixes: bbc6d2c6ef22 ("efi: vars: Switch to new wrapper layer") Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c | 10 +++++----- fs/efivarfs/vars.c | 16 ---------------- include/linux/efi.h | 3 --- 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ */ #include <linux/types.h> +#include <linux/sizes.h> #include <linux/errno.h> #include <linux/init.h> #include <linux/module.h> @@ -20,19 +21,19 @@ static struct efivars *__efivars; static DEFINE_SEMAPHORE(efivars_lock); -efi_status_t check_var_size(u32 attributes, unsigned long size) +static efi_status_t check_var_size(u32 attributes, unsigned long size) { const struct efivar_operations *fops; fops = __efivars->ops; if (!fops->query_variable_store) - return EFI_UNSUPPORTED; + return (size <= SZ_64K) ? EFI_SUCCESS : EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES; return fops->query_variable_store(attributes, size, false); } -EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(check_var_size, EFIVAR); +static efi_status_t check_var_size_nonblocking(u32 attributes, unsigned long size) { const struct efivar_operations *fops; @@ -40,11 +41,10 @@ efi_status_t check_var_size_nonblocking( fops = __efivars->ops; if (!fops->query_variable_store) - return EFI_UNSUPPORTED; + return (size <= SZ_64K) ? EFI_SUCCESS : EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES; return fops->query_variable_store(attributes, size, true); } -EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(check_var_size_nonblocking, EFIVAR); /** * efivars_kobject - get the kobject for the registered efivars --- a/fs/efivarfs/vars.c +++ b/fs/efivarfs/vars.c @@ -651,22 +651,6 @@ int efivar_entry_set_get_size(struct efi if (err) return err; - /* - * Ensure that the available space hasn't shrunk below the safe level - */ - status = check_var_size(attributes, *size + ucs2_strsize(name, 1024)); - if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) { - if (status != EFI_UNSUPPORTED) { - err = efi_status_to_err(status); - goto out; - } - - if (*size > 65536) { - err = -ENOSPC; - goto out; - } - } - status = efivar_set_variable_locked(name, vendor, attributes, *size, data, false); if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) { --- a/include/linux/efi.h +++ b/include/linux/efi.h @@ -1055,9 +1055,6 @@ efi_status_t efivar_set_variable_locked( efi_status_t efivar_set_variable(efi_char16_t *name, efi_guid_t *vendor, u32 attr, unsigned long data_size, void *data); -efi_status_t check_var_size(u32 attributes, unsigned long size); -efi_status_t check_var_size_nonblocking(u32 attributes, unsigned long size); - #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_EFI_CAPSULE_LOADER) extern bool efi_capsule_pending(int *reset_type); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ardb@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.0/efi-ssdt-don-t-free-memory-if-acpi-table-was-loaded-successfully.patch queue-6.0/efi-efivars-fix-variable-writes-without-query_variable_store.patch