[PATCHv2 5/5] efi/runtime-wrappers: detect FW irq flag corruption

Mark Rutland
2016-04-21T11:36:19Z

The UEFI spec allows runtime services to be called with interrupts
masked or unmasked, and if a runtime service function needs to mask
interrupts, it must restore the mask to its original state before
returning (i.e. from the PoV of the OS, this does not change across a
call). Firmware should never unmask exceptions, as these may then be
taken by the OS unexpectedly.

Unfortunately, some firmware has been seen to unmask IRQs (and
potentially other maskable exceptions) across runtime services calls,
leaving irq flags corrupted after returning from a runtime services
function call. This may be detected by the IRQ tracing code, but often
goes unnoticed, leaving a potentially disastrous bug hidden.

This patch detects when the irq flags are corrupted by an EFI runtime
services call, logging the call and specific corruption to the console.
While restoring the expected value of the flags is insufficient to avoid
problems, we do so to avoid redundant warnings from elsewhere (e.g. IRQ
tracing).

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
---
drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c
index 1b9fa54..aeb65f2 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c
@@ -16,8 +16,10 @@

#include <linux/bug.h>
#include <linux/efi.h>
+#include <linux/irqflags.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
+#include <linux/stringify.h>
#include <asm/efi.h>

@@ -25,8 +27,11 @@
#define efi_call_virt(f, args...) \
({ \
efi_status_t __s; \
+ unsigned long flags; \
arch_efi_call_virt_setup(); \
+ local_save_flags(flags); \
__s = arch_efi_call_virt(f, args); \
+ efi_call_virt_check_flags(flags, __stringify(f)); \
arch_efi_call_virt_teardown(); \
__s; \
})
@@ -35,12 +40,29 @@
#ifndef __efi_call_virt
#define __efi_call_virt(f, args...) \
({ \
+ unsigned long flags; \
arch_efi_call_virt_setup(); \
+ local_irq_save(flags); \
arch_efi_call_virt(f, args); \
+ efi_call_virt_check_flags(flags, __stringify(f)); \
arch_efi_call_virt_teardown(); \
})
#endif

+static void efi_call_virt_check_flags(unsigned long flags, const char *call)
+{
+ unsigned long cur_flags;
+
+ local_save_flags(cur_flags);
+ if (!WARN_ON_ONCE(cur_flags != flags))
+ return;
+
+ add_taint(TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, LOCKDEP_NOW_UNRELIABLE);
+ pr_err_ratelimited(FW_BUG "IRQ flags corrupted (0x%08lx=>0x%08lx) by EFI %s\n",
+ flags, cur_flags, call);
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
+}
+
/*
* According to section 7.1 of the UEFI spec, Runtime Services are not fully
* reentrant, and there are particular combinations of calls that need to be
--
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