This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
efi/capsule: Allocate whole capsule into virtual memory
to the 4.7-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-capsule-allocate-whole-capsule-into-virtual-memory.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 6862e6ad95e984991a6ceec592cf67831658f928 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Austin Christ <austinwc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 11:42:00 +0100
Subject: efi/capsule: Allocate whole capsule into virtual memory
From: Austin Christ <austinwc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 6862e6ad95e984991a6ceec592cf67831658f928 upstream.
According to UEFI 2.6 section 7.5.3, the capsule should be in contiguous
virtual memory and firmware may consume the capsule immediately. To
correctly implement this functionality, the kernel driver needs to vmap
the entire capsule at the time it is made available to firmware.
The virtual allocation of the capsule update has been changed from kmap,
which was only allocating the first page of the update, to vmap, and
allocates the entire data payload.
Signed-off-by: Austin Christ <austinwc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kweh Hock Leong <hock.leong.kweh@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-efi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470912120-22831-3-git-send-email-matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/firmware/efi/capsule-loader.c | 8 +++++---
drivers/firmware/efi/capsule.c | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/capsule-loader.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/capsule-loader.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/efi.h>
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#define NO_FURTHER_WRITE_ACTION -1
@@ -108,14 +109,15 @@ static ssize_t efi_capsule_submit_update
int ret;
void *cap_hdr_temp;
- cap_hdr_temp = kmap(cap_info->pages[0]);
+ cap_hdr_temp = vmap(cap_info->pages, cap_info->index,
+ VM_MAP, PAGE_KERNEL);
if (!cap_hdr_temp) {
- pr_debug("%s: kmap() failed\n", __func__);
+ pr_debug("%s: vmap() failed\n", __func__);
return -EFAULT;
}
ret = efi_capsule_update(cap_hdr_temp, cap_info->pages);
- kunmap(cap_info->pages[0]);
+ vunmap(cap_hdr_temp);
if (ret) {
pr_err("%s: efi_capsule_update() failed\n", __func__);
return ret;
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/capsule.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/capsule.c
@@ -190,9 +190,9 @@ efi_capsule_update_locked(efi_capsule_he
* map the capsule described by @capsule with its data in @pages and
* send it to the firmware via the UpdateCapsule() runtime service.
*
- * @capsule must be a virtual mapping of the first page in @pages
- * (@pages[0]) in the kernel address space. That is, a
- * capsule_header_t that describes the entire contents of the capsule
+ * @capsule must be a virtual mapping of the complete capsule update in the
+ * kernel address space, as the capsule can be consumed immediately.
+ * A capsule_header_t that describes the entire contents of the capsule
* must be at the start of the first data page.
*
* Even though this function will validate that the firmware supports
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from austinwc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.7/efi-capsule-allocate-whole-capsule-into-virtual-memory.patch
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