kernel/linux.git/drivers/base/firmware_loader, branch v6.12.80

firmware_loader: make RUST_FW_LOADER_ABSTRACTIONS select FW_LOADER

2025-12-18T12:55:08+00:00

[ Upstream commit 9906efa545d1d2cf25a614eeb219d3f8d5a302cd ] The use of firmware_loader is an implementation detail of drivers rather than a dependency. FW_LOADER is typically selected rather than depended on; the Rust abstractions should do the same thing. Fixes: de6582833db0 ("rust: add firmware abstractions") Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251106-b4-select-rust-fw-v3-1-771172257755@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

firmware_loader: Fix possible resource leak in fw_log_firmware_info()

2024-12-05T13:02:38+00:00

[ Upstream commit 369a9c046c2fdfe037f05b43b84c386bdbccc103 ] The alg instance should be released under the exception path, otherwise there may be resource leak here. To mitigate this, free the alg instance with crypto_free_shash when kmalloc fails. Fixes: 02fe26f25325 ("firmware_loader: Add debug message with checksum for FW file") Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui Reviewed-by: Amadeusz Sławiński Reviewed-by: Russ Weight Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241016110335.3677924-1-cuigaosheng1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

firmware_loader: Block path traversal

2024-09-03T10:47:55+00:00

Most firmware names are hardcoded strings, or are constructed from fairly constrained format strings where the dynamic parts are just some hex numbers or such. However, there are a couple codepaths in the kernel where firmware file names contain string components that are passed through from a device or semi-privileged userspace; the ones I could find (not counting interfaces that require root privileges) are: - lpfc_sli4_request_firmware_update() seems to construct the firmware filename from "ModelName", a string that was previously parsed out of some descriptor ("Vital Product Data") in lpfc_fill_vpd() - nfp_net_fw_find() seems to construct a firmware filename from a model name coming from nfp_hwinfo_lookup(pf->hwinfo, "nffw.partno"), which I think parses some descriptor that was read from the device. (But this case likely isn't exploitable because the format string looks like "netronome/nic_%s", and there shouldn't be any *folders* starting with "netronome/nic_". The previous case was different because there, the "%s" is *at the start* of the format string.) - module_flash_fw_schedule() is reachable from the ETHTOOL_MSG_MODULE_FW_FLASH_ACT netlink command, which is marked as GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM (meaning CAP_NET_ADMIN inside a user namespace is enough to pass the privilege check), and takes a userspace-provided firmware name. (But I think to reach this case, you need to have CAP_NET_ADMIN over a network namespace that a special kind of ethernet device is mapped into, so I think this is not a viable attack path in practice.) Fix it by rejecting any firmware names containing ".." path components. For what it's worth, I went looking and haven't found any USB device drivers that use the firmware loader dangerously. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Danilo Krummrich Fixes: abb139e75c2c ("firmware: teach the kernel to load firmware files directly from the filesystem") Signed-off-by: Jann Horn Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240828-firmware-traversal-v3-1-c76529c63b5f@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'driver-core-6.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

2024-07-25T17:42:22+00:00

Pull driver core updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big set of driver core changes for 6.11-rc1. Lots of stuff in here, with not a huge diffstat, but apis are evolving which required lots of files to be touched. Highlights of the changes in here are: - platform remove callback api final fixups (Uwe took many releases to get here, finally!) - Rust bindings for basic firmware apis and initial driver-core interactions. It's not all that useful for a "write a whole driver in rust" type of thing, but the firmware bindings do help out the phy rust drivers, and the driver core bindings give a solid base on which others can start their work. There is still a long way to go here before we have a multitude of rust drivers being added, but it's a great first step. - driver core const api changes. This reached across all bus types, and there are some fix-ups for some not-common bus types that linux-next and 0-day testing shook out. This work is being done to help make the rust bindings more safe, as well as the C code, moving toward the end-goal of allowing us to put driver structures into read-only memory. We aren't there yet, but are getting closer. - minor devres cleanups and fixes found by code inspection - arch_topology minor changes - other minor driver core cleanups All of these have been in linux-next for a very long time with no reported problems" * tag 'driver-core-6.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (55 commits) ARM: sa1100: make match function take a const pointer sysfs/cpu: Make crash_hotplug attribute world-readable dio: Have dio_bus_match() callback take a const * zorro: make match function take a const pointer driver core: module: make module_[add|remove]_driver take a const * driver core: make driver_find_device() take a const * driver core: make driver_[create|remove]_file take a const * firmware_loader: fix soundness issue in `request_internal` firmware_loader: annotate doctests as `no_run` devres: Correct code style for functions that return a pointer type devres: Initialize an uninitialized struct member devres: Fix memory leakage caused by driver API devm_free_percpu() devres: Fix devm_krealloc() wasting memory driver core: platform: Switch to use kmemdup_array() driver core: have match() callback in struct bus_type take a const * MAINTAINERS: add Rust device abstractions to DRIVER CORE device: rust: improve safety comments MAINTAINERS: add Danilo as FIRMWARE LOADER maintainer MAINTAINERS: add Rust FW abstractions to FIRMWARE LOADER firmware: rust: improve safety comments ...

rust: add firmware abstractions

2024-06-18T16:45:12+00:00

Add an abstraction around the kernels firmware API to request firmware images. The abstraction provides functions to access the firmware's size and backing buffer. The firmware is released once the abstraction instance is dropped. Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich Acked-by: Boqun Feng Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240618154841.6716-3-dakr@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

firmware: add nowarn variant of request_firmware_nowait()

2024-06-07T17:44:45+00:00

Device drivers with optional firmware may still want to use the asynchronous firmware loading interface. To avoid printing a warning into the kernel log when the optional firmware is absent, add a nowarn variant of this interface. Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240516102532.213874-1-l.stach@pengutronix.de Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul

firmware_loader: Suppress warning on FW_OPT_NO_WARN flag

2024-03-07T22:05:09+00:00

Some of the warnings are still being printed even if FW_OPT_NO_WARN is passed for some of the function e.g., firmware_request_nowarn(). Fix it by adding a check for FW_OPT_NO_WARN before printing the warning. Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240219163954.7719-1-quic_mojha@quicinc.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

firmware_loader: Expand Firmware upload error codes with firmware invalid error

2023-11-25T02:09:19+00:00

No error code are available to signal an invalid firmware content. Drivers that can check the firmware content validity can not return this specific failure to the user-space Expand the firmware error code with an additional code: - "firmware invalid" code which can be used when the provided firmware is invalid Sync lib/test_firmware.c file accordingly. Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Kory Maincent Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231122-feature_firmware_error_code-v3-1-04ec753afb71@bootlin.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge tag 'driver-core-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

2023-11-04T01:15:47+00:00

Pull driver core updates from Greg KH: "Here is the set of driver core updates for 6.7-rc1. Nothing major in here at all, just a small number of changes including: - minor cleanups and updates from Andy Shevchenko - __counted_by addition - firmware_loader update for aborting loads cleaner - other minor changes, details in the shortlog - documentation update All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'driver-core-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (21 commits) firmware_loader: Abort all upcoming firmware load request once reboot triggered firmware_loader: Refactor kill_pending_fw_fallback_reqs() Documentation: security-bugs.rst: linux-distros relaxed their rules driver core: Release all resources during unbind before updating device links driver core: class: remove boilerplate code driver core: platform: Annotate struct irq_affinity_devres with __counted_by resource: Constify resource crosscheck APIs resource: Unify next_resource() and next_resource_skip_children() resource: Reuse for_each_resource() macro PCI: Implement custom llseek for sysfs resource entries kernfs: sysfs: support custom llseek method for sysfs entries debugfs: Fix __rcu type comparison warning device property: Replace custom implementation of COUNT_ARGS() drivers: base: test: Make property entry API test modular driver core: Add missing parameter description to __fwnode_link_add() device property: Clarify usage scope of some struct fwnode_handle members devres: rename the first parameter of devm_add_action(_or_reset) driver core: platform: Unify the firmware node type check driver core: platform: Use temporary variable in platform_device_add() driver core: platform: Refactor error path in a couple places ...

firmware_loader: Abort all upcoming firmware load request once reboot triggered

2023-10-27T11:30:38+00:00

There could be following scenario where there is a ongoing reboot is going from processA which tries to call all the reboot notifier callback and one of them is firmware reboot call which tries to abort all the ongoing firmware userspace request under fw_lock but there could be another processB which tries to do request firmware, which came just after abort done from ProcessA and ask for userspace to load the firmware and this can stop the ongoing reboot ProcessA to stall for next 60s(default timeout) which may not be expected behaviour everyone like to see, instead we should abort any firmware load request which came once firmware knows about the reboot through notification. ProcessA ProcessB kernel_restart_prepare blocking_notifier_call_chain fw_shutdown_notify kill_pending_fw_fallback_reqs __fw_load_abort fw_state_aborted request_firmware __fw_state_set firmware_fallback_sysfs ... fw_load_from_user_helper .. ... . .. usermodehelper_read_trylock fw_load_sysfs_fallback fw_sysfs_wait_timeout usermodehelper_disable __usermodehelper_disable down_write() Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1698330459-31776-2-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman