kernel/linux.git/drivers/firmware/efi, branch v7.0-rc7

x86/efi: defer freeing of boot services memory

2026-02-25T11:02:48+00:00

efi_free_boot_services() frees memory occupied by EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE and EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA using memblock_free_late(). There are two issue with that: memblock_free_late() should be used for memory allocated with memblock_alloc() while the memory reserved with memblock_reserve() should be freed with free_reserved_area(). More acutely, with CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT=y efi_free_boot_services() is called before deferred initialization of the memory map is complete. Benjamin Herrenschmidt reports that this causes a leak of ~140MB of RAM on EC2 t3a.nano instances which only have 512MB or RAM. If the freed memory resides in the areas that memory map for them is still uninitialized, they won't be actually freed because memblock_free_late() calls memblock_free_pages() and the latter skips uninitialized pages. Using free_reserved_area() at this point is also problematic because __free_page() accesses the buddy of the freed page and that again might end up in uninitialized part of the memory map. Delaying the entire efi_free_boot_services() could be problematic because in addition to freeing boot services memory it updates efi.memmap without any synchronization and that's undesirable late in boot when there is concurrency. More robust approach is to only defer freeing of the EFI boot services memory. Split efi_free_boot_services() in two. First efi_unmap_boot_services() collects ranges that should be freed into an array then efi_free_boot_services() later frees them after deferred init is complete. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ec2aaef14783869b3be6e3c253b2dcbf67dbc12a.camel@kernel.crashing.org Fixes: 916f676f8dc0 ("x86, efi: Retain boot service code until after switching to virtual mode") Cc: Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Reviewed-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel

Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments

2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00

This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split over multiple lines. I only did the ones that are easy to verify the resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next line. Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the middle of the script. I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial. So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed' scripts. The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want whitespace cleanup anyway. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

efi: Align unaccepted memory range to page boundary

2026-02-18T10:26:20+00:00

The accept_memory() and range_contains_unaccepted_memory() functions employ a "guard page" logic to prevent crashes with load_unaligned_zeropad(). This logic extends the range to be accepted (or checked) by one unit_size if the end of the range is aligned to a unit_size boundary. However, if the caller passes a range that is not page-aligned, the 'end' of the range might not be numerically aligned to unit_size, even if it covers the last page of a unit. This causes the "if (!(end % unit_size))" check to fail, skipping the necessary extension and leaving the next unit unaccepted, which can lead to a kernel panic when accessed by load_unaligned_zeropad(). Align the start address down and the size up to the nearest page boundary before performing the unit_size alignment check. This ensures that the guard unit is correctly added when the range effectively ends on a unit boundary. Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel

efi: Fix reservation of unaccepted memory table

2026-02-18T10:26:20+00:00

The reserve_unaccepted() function incorrectly calculates the size of the memblock reservation for the unaccepted memory table. It aligns the size of the table, but fails to account for cases where the table's starting physical address (efi.unaccepted) is not page-aligned. If the table starts at an offset within a page and its end crosses into a subsequent page that the aligned size does not cover, the end of the table will not be reserved. This can lead to the table being overwritten or inaccessible, causing a kernel panic in accept_memory(). This issue was observed when starting Intel TDX VMs with specific memory sizes (e.g., > 64GB). Fix this by calculating the end address first (including the unaligned start) and then aligning it up, ensuring the entire range is covered by the reservation. Fixes: 8dbe33956d96 ("efi/unaccepted: Make sure unaccepted table is mapped") Reported-by: Moritz Sanft Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel

efi: stmm: Constify struct efivar_operations

2026-02-18T10:26:20+00:00

The 'struct efivar_operations' is not modified by the driver after initialization, so it should follow typical practice of being static const for increased code safety and readability. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel

efi: export sysfb_primary_display for EDID

2026-02-17T11:25:09+00:00

The sysfb_primary_display structure is now part of efi-init.c but conditionally defined. One of the users is missing in the condition: aarch64-linux-ld: drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmon.o: in function `fb_firmware_edid': fbmon.c:(.text.fb_firmware_edid+0x3c): undefined reference to `sysfb_primary_display' Export it whenever CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID is set, so the fbdev core code can use it. Fixes: 4fcae6358871 ("sysfb: Move edid_info into sysfb_primary_display") Reported-by: kernel test robot Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202602111543.Do4nkY5l-lkp@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel

Merge tag 'soc-drivers-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc

2026-02-11T04:45:30+00:00

Pull SoC driver updates from Arnd Bergmann: "There are are a number of to firmware drivers, in particular the TEE subsystem: - a bus callback for TEE firmware that device drivers can register to - sysfs support for tee firmware information - minor updates to platform specific TEE drivers for AMD, NXP, Qualcomm and the generic optee driver - ARM SCMI firmware refactoring to improve the protocol discover among other fixes and cleanups - ARM FF-A firmware interoperability improvements The reset controller and memory controller subsystems gain support for additional hardware platforms from Mediatek, Renesas, NXP, Canaan and SpacemiT. Most of the other changes are for random drivers/soc code. Among a number of cleanups and newly added hardware support, including: - Mediatek MT8196 DVFS power management and mailbox support - Qualcomm SCM firmware and MDT loader refactoring, as part of the new Glymur platform support. - NXP i.MX9 System Manager firmware support for accessing the syslog - Minor updates for TI, Renesas, Samsung, Apple, Marvell and AMD SoCs" * tag 'soc-drivers-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc: (171 commits) bus: fsl-mc: fix an error handling in fsl_mc_device_add() reset: spacemit: Add SpacemiT K3 reset driver reset: spacemit: Extract common K1 reset code reset: Create subdirectory for SpacemiT drivers dt-bindings: soc: spacemit: Add K3 reset support and IDs reset: canaan: k230: drop OF dependency and enable by default reset: rzg2l-usbphy-ctrl: Add suspend/resume support reset: rzg2l-usbphy-ctrl: Propagate the return value of regmap_field_update_bits() reset: gpio: check the return value of gpiod_set_value_cansleep() reset: imx8mp-audiomix: Support i.MX8ULP SIM LPAV reset: imx8mp-audiomix: Extend the driver usage reset: imx8mp-audiomix: Switch to using regmap API reset: imx8mp-audiomix: Drop unneeded macros soc: fsl: qe: qe_ports_ic: Consolidate chained IRQ handler install/remove soc: mediatek: mtk-cmdq: Add mminfra_offset adjustment for DRAM addresses soc: mediatek: mtk-cmdq: Extend cmdq_pkt_write API for SoCs without subsys ID soc: mediatek: mtk-cmdq: Add pa_base parsing for hardware without subsys ID support soc: mediatek: mtk-cmdq: Add cmdq_get_mbox_priv() in cmdq_pkt_create() mailbox: mtk-cmdq: Add driver data to support for MT8196 mailbox: mtk-cmdq: Add mminfra_offset configuration for DRAM transaction ...

Merge tag 'efi-next-for-v7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi

2026-02-10T04:49:19+00:00

Pull EFI updates from Ard Biesheuvel: - Quirk the broken EFI framebuffer geometry on the Valve Steam Deck - Capture the EDID information of the primary display also on non-x86 EFI systems when booting via the EFI stub. * tag 'efi-next-for-v7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi: efi: Support EDID information sysfb: Move edid_info into sysfb_primary_display sysfb: Pass sysfb_primary_display to devices sysfb: Replace screen_info with sysfb_primary_display sysfb: Add struct sysfb_display_info efi: sysfb_efi: Reduce number of references to global screen_info efi: earlycon: Reduce number of references to global screen_info efi: sysfb_efi: Fix efidrmfb and simpledrmfb on Valve Steam Deck efi: sysfb_efi: Convert swap width and height quirk to a callback efi: sysfb_efi: Fix lfb_linelength calculation when applying quirks efi: sysfb_efi: Replace open coded swap with the macro