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authorArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>2025-02-01 20:21:35 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-02-21 15:50:04 +0300
commitd7c19014762ae0a2f46d61a8385c3c84dde09bea (patch)
tree91d994ed1f761ef415b59e50ee668e2cc80fae91 /drivers/firmware
parent17d24ff755a805271fdb2c2e90211706c8662cf5 (diff)
downloadlinux-d7c19014762ae0a2f46d61a8385c3c84dde09bea.tar.xz
efi: Avoid cold plugged memory for placing the kernel
commit ba69e0750b0362870294adab09339a0c39c3beaf upstream. UEFI 2.11 introduced EFI_MEMORY_HOT_PLUGGABLE to annotate system memory regions that are 'cold plugged' at boot, i.e., hot pluggable memory that is available from early boot, and described as system RAM by the firmware. Existing loaders and EFI applications running in the boot context will happily use this memory for allocating data structures that cannot be freed or moved at runtime, and this prevents the memory from being unplugged. Going forward, the new EFI_MEMORY_HOT_PLUGGABLE attribute should be tested, and memory annotated as such should be avoided for such allocations. In the EFI stub, there are a couple of occurrences where, instead of the high-level AllocatePages() UEFI boot service, a low-level code sequence is used that traverses the EFI memory map and carves out the requested number of pages from a free region. This is needed, e.g., for allocating as low as possible, or for allocating pages at random. While AllocatePages() should presumably avoid special purpose memory and cold plugged regions, this manual approach needs to incorporate this logic itself, in order to prevent the kernel itself from ending up in a hot unpluggable region, preventing it from being unplugged. So add the EFI_MEMORY_HOTPLUGGABLE macro definition, and check for it where appropriate. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/firmware')
-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c6
-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/randomalloc.c3
-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/relocate.c3
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
index 28d4defc5d0c..9786dfff9f84 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
@@ -835,13 +835,15 @@ char * __init efi_md_typeattr_format(char *buf, size_t size,
EFI_MEMORY_WB | EFI_MEMORY_UCE | EFI_MEMORY_RO |
EFI_MEMORY_WP | EFI_MEMORY_RP | EFI_MEMORY_XP |
EFI_MEMORY_NV | EFI_MEMORY_SP | EFI_MEMORY_CPU_CRYPTO |
- EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME | EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE))
+ EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE | EFI_MEMORY_HOT_PLUGGABLE |
+ EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME))
snprintf(pos, size, "|attr=0x%016llx]",
(unsigned long long)attr);
else
snprintf(pos, size,
- "|%3s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%3s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s]",
+ "|%3s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%3s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s]",
attr & EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME ? "RUN" : "",
+ attr & EFI_MEMORY_HOT_PLUGGABLE ? "HP" : "",
attr & EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE ? "MR" : "",
attr & EFI_MEMORY_CPU_CRYPTO ? "CC" : "",
attr & EFI_MEMORY_SP ? "SP" : "",
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/randomalloc.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/randomalloc.c
index fff826f56728..5d88a5a46b09 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/randomalloc.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/randomalloc.c
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ static unsigned long get_entry_num_slots(efi_memory_desc_t *md,
if (md->type != EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY)
return 0;
+ if (md->attribute & EFI_MEMORY_HOT_PLUGGABLE)
+ return 0;
+
if (efi_soft_reserve_enabled() &&
(md->attribute & EFI_MEMORY_SP))
return 0;
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/relocate.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/relocate.c
index bf6fbd5d22a1..713ee2de02cf 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/relocate.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/relocate.c
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ efi_status_t efi_low_alloc_above(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
if (desc->type != EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY)
continue;
+ if (desc->attribute & EFI_MEMORY_HOT_PLUGGABLE)
+ continue;
+
if (efi_soft_reserve_enabled() &&
(desc->attribute & EFI_MEMORY_SP))
continue;