Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 134/191] efi: Make efi_rts_work accessible to efi page fault handler

Ard Biesheuvel
2019-11-10T07:35:56Z

On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 at 03:44, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> From: Sai Praneeth <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
>
> [ Upstream commit 9dbbedaa6171247c4c7c40b83f05b200a117c2e0 ]
>
> After the kernel has booted, if any accesses by firmware causes a page
> fault, the efi page fault handler would freeze efi_rts_wq and schedules
> a new process. To do this, the efi page fault handler needs
> efi_rts_work. Hence, make it accessible.
>
> There will be no race conditions in accessing this structure, because
> all the calls to efi runtime services are already serialized.
>
> Tested-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
> Suggested-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
> Based-on-code-from: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

NAK

Would it be possible to disregard all EFI patches for -stable unless
they have a fixes tag? EFI subtly depends on lots of firmware quirks
across various architectures, and so grabbing random patches and
backporting them is really not a good idea in general.

> ---
> drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c | 53 +++++--------------------
> include/linux/efi.h | 36 +++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c
> index 1606abead22cc..b31e3d3729a6d 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c
> @@ -45,39 +45,7 @@
> #define __efi_call_virt(f, args...) \
> __efi_call_virt_pointer(efi.systab->runtime, f, args)
>
> -/* efi_runtime_service() function identifiers */
> -enum efi_rts_ids {
> - GET_TIME,
> - SET_TIME,
> - GET_WAKEUP_TIME,
> - SET_WAKEUP_TIME,
> - GET_VARIABLE,
> - GET_NEXT_VARIABLE,
> - SET_VARIABLE,
> - QUERY_VARIABLE_INFO,
> - GET_NEXT_HIGH_MONO_COUNT,
> - UPDATE_CAPSULE,
> - QUERY_CAPSULE_CAPS,
> -};
> -
> -/*
> - * efi_runtime_work: Details of EFI Runtime Service work
> - * @arg<1-5>: EFI Runtime Service function arguments
> - * @status: Status of executing EFI Runtime Service
> - * @efi_rts_id: EFI Runtime Service function identifier
> - * @efi_rts_comp: Struct used for handling completions
> - */
> -struct efi_runtime_work {
> - void *arg1;
> - void *arg2;
> - void *arg3;
> - void *arg4;
> - void *arg5;
> - efi_status_t status;
> - struct work_struct work;
> - enum efi_rts_ids efi_rts_id;
> - struct completion efi_rts_comp;
> -};
> +struct efi_runtime_work efi_rts_work;
>
> /*
> * efi_queue_work: Queue efi_runtime_service() and wait until it's done
> @@ -91,7 +59,6 @@ struct efi_runtime_work {
> */
> #define efi_queue_work(_rts, _arg1, _arg2, _arg3, _arg4, _arg5) \
> ({ \
> - struct efi_runtime_work efi_rts_work; \
> efi_rts_work.status = EFI_ABORTED; \
> \
> init_completion(&efi_rts_work.efi_rts_comp); \
> @@ -191,18 +158,16 @@ extern struct semaphore __efi_uv_runtime_lock __alias(efi_runtime_lock);
> */
> static void efi_call_rts(struct work_struct *work)
> {
> - struct efi_runtime_work *efi_rts_work;
> void *arg1, *arg2, *arg3, *arg4, *arg5;
> efi_status_t status = EFI_NOT_FOUND;
>
> - efi_rts_work = container_of(work, struct efi_runtime_work, work);
> - arg1 = efi_rts_work->arg1;
> - arg2 = efi_rts_work->arg2;
> - arg3 = efi_rts_work->arg3;
> - arg4 = efi_rts_work->arg4;
> - arg5 = efi_rts_work->arg5;
> + arg1 = efi_rts_work.arg1;
> + arg2 = efi_rts_work.arg2;
> + arg3 = efi_rts_work.arg3;
> + arg4 = efi_rts_work.arg4;
> + arg5 = efi_rts_work.arg5;
>
> - switch (efi_rts_work->efi_rts_id) {
> + switch (efi_rts_work.efi_rts_id) {
> case GET_TIME:
> status = efi_call_virt(get_time, (efi_time_t *)arg1,
> (efi_time_cap_t *)arg2);
> @@ -260,8 +225,8 @@ static void efi_call_rts(struct work_struct *work)
> */
> pr_err("Requested executing invalid EFI Runtime Service.\n");
> }
> - efi_rts_work->status = status;
> - complete(&efi_rts_work->efi_rts_comp);
> + efi_rts_work.status = status;
> + complete(&efi_rts_work.efi_rts_comp);
> }
>
> static efi_status_t virt_efi_get_time(efi_time_t *tm, efi_time_cap_t *tc)
> diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h
> index f43fc61fbe2c9..9d4c25090fd04 100644
> --- a/include/linux/efi.h
> +++ b/include/linux/efi.h
> @@ -1666,6 +1666,42 @@ struct linux_efi_tpm_eventlog {
>
> extern int efi_tpm_eventlog_init(void);
>
> +/* efi_runtime_service() function identifiers */
> +enum efi_rts_ids {
> + GET_TIME,
> + SET_TIME,
> + GET_WAKEUP_TIME,
> + SET_WAKEUP_TIME,
> + GET_VARIABLE,
> + GET_NEXT_VARIABLE,
> + SET_VARIABLE,
> + QUERY_VARIABLE_INFO,
> + GET_NEXT_HIGH_MONO_COUNT,
> + UPDATE_CAPSULE,
> + QUERY_CAPSULE_CAPS,
> +};
> +
> +/*
> + * efi_runtime_work: Details of EFI Runtime Service work
> + * @arg<1-5>: EFI Runtime Service function arguments
> + * @status: Status of executing EFI Runtime Service
> + * @efi_rts_id: EFI Runtime Service function identifier
> + * @efi_rts_comp: Struct used for handling completions
> + */
> +struct efi_runtime_work {
> + void *arg1;
> + void *arg2;
> + void *arg3;
> + void *arg4;
> + void *arg5;
> + efi_status_t status;
> + struct work_struct work;
> + enum efi_rts_ids efi_rts_id;
> + struct completion efi_rts_comp;
> +};
> +
> +extern struct efi_runtime_work efi_rts_work;
> +
> /* Workqueue to queue EFI Runtime Services */
> extern struct workqueue_struct *efi_rts_wq;
>
> --
> 2.20.1
>