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2021-09-02iscsi_ibft: Fix isa_bus_to_virt not working under ARMKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk1-8/+16
The isa_bus_to_virt is only needed under X86 and in fact the code that sets the ibft_phys_addr is only compiled under X86. As such lets just ifdef the code. Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Reported-by: Vijayendra Suman <vijayendra.suman@oracle.com> CC: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@redhat.com> CC: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> --- v2: Remove the ibft_phys_addr as it is defined in iscsi_ibft.h
2021-08-01iscsi_ibft: fix crash due to KASLR physical memory remappingMaurizio Lombardi1-3/+7
Starting with commit a799c2bd29d1 ("x86/setup: Consolidate early memory reservations") memory reservations have been moved earlier during the boot process, before the execution of the Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization code. setup_arch() calls the iscsi_ibft's find_ibft_region() function to find and reserve the memory dedicated to the iBFT and this function also saves a virtual pointer to the iBFT table for later use. The problem is that if KALSR is active, the physical memory gets remapped somewhere else in the virtual address space and the pointer is no longer valid, this will cause a kernel panic when the iscsi driver tries to dereference it. iBFT detected. BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff888000099fd8 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI ..snip.. Call Trace: ? ibft_create_kobject+0x1d2/0x1d2 [iscsi_ibft] do_one_initcall+0x44/0x1d0 ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x119/0x220 do_init_module+0x5c/0x270 __do_sys_init_module+0x12e/0x1b0 do_syscall_64+0x40/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae Fix this bug by saving the address of the physical location of the ibft; later the driver will use isa_bus_to_virt() to get the correct virtual address. N.B. On each reboot KASLR randomizes the virtual addresses so assuming phys_to_virt before KASLR does its deed is incorrect. Simplify the code by renaming find_ibft_region() to reserve_ibft_region() and remove all the wrappers. Signed-off-by: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
2020-06-16ibft: Replace zero-length array with flexible-arrayGustavo A. R. Silva1-1/+1
There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare having a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure. Kernel code should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these cases. The older style of one-element or zero-length arrays should no longer be used[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21 Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
2020-01-12iscsi_ibft: Don't limits Targets and NICs to twoLubomir Rintel1-4/+5
According to iSCSI Boot Firmware Table Version 1.03 [1], the length of the control table is ">= 18", where the optional expansion structure pointer follow the mandatory ones. This allows for more than two NICs and Targets. [1] ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/systems/support/bladecenter/iscsi_boot_firmware_table_v1.03.pdf Let's enforce the minimum length of the control structure instead instead of limiting it to the smallest allowed size. Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@darnok.org>
2019-07-26Merge branch 'for-linus-5.3' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+4
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/ibft Pull iscsi_ibft fix from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk: "One tiny fix to enable iSCSI IBFT to be compiled under ARM" * 'for-linus-5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/ibft: iscsi_ibft: make ISCSI_IBFT depend on ACPI instead of ISCSI_IBFT_FIND
2019-07-20iscsi_ibft: make ISCSI_IBFT dependson ACPI instead of ISCSI_IBFT_FINDThomas Tai1-0/+4
iscsi_ibft can use ACPI to find the iBFT entry during bootup, currently, ISCSI_IBFT depends on ISCSI_IBFT_FIND which is a X86 legacy way to find the iBFT by searching through the low memory. This patch changes the dependency so that other arch like ARM64 can use ISCSI_IBFT as long as the arch supports ACPI. ibft_init() needs to use the global variable ibft_addr declared in iscsi_ibft_find.c. A #ifndef CONFIG_ISCSI_IBFT_FIND is needed to declare the variable if CONFIG_ISCSI_IBFT_FIND is not selected. Moving ibft_addr into the iscsi_ibft.c does not work because if ISCSI_IBFT is selected as a module, the arch/x86/kernel/setup.c won't be able to find the variable at compile time. Signed-off-by: Thomas Tai <thomas.tai@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2019-06-05treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 287Thomas Gleixner1-10/+1
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license v2 0 as published by the free software foundation this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more details extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-only has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 23 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net> Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190529141901.115786599@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-04-09ACPICA: Rename nameseg length macro/define for clarityBob Moore1-1/+1
ACPICA commit 24870bd9e73d71e2a1ff0a1e94519f8f8409e57d ACPI_NAME_SIZE changed to ACPI_NAMESEG_SIZE This clarifies that this is the length of an individual nameseg, not the length of a generic namestring/namepath. Improves understanding of the code. Link: https://github.com/acpica/acpica/commit/24870bd9 Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Erik Schmauss <erik.schmauss@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2019-02-12iscsi_ibft: Fix missing break in switch statementGustavo A. R. Silva1-0/+1
Add missing break statement in order to prevent the code from falling through to case ISCSI_BOOT_TGT_NAME, which is unnecessary. This bug was found thanks to the ongoing efforts to enable -Wimplicit-fallthrough. Fixes: b33a84a38477 ("ibft: convert iscsi_ibft module to iscsi boot lib") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2018-01-12ibft: Deprecate pci_get_bus_and_slot()Sinan Kaya1-2/+3
pci_get_bus_and_slot() is restrictive such that it assumes domain=0 as where a PCI device is present. This restricts the device drivers to be reused for other domain numbers. Getting ready to remove pci_get_bus_and_slot() function in favor of pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot(). We don't search for the device in other domains than zero. This is because on x86 platforms the BIOS executes only devices which are in domain 0. Furthermore, the iBFT spec doesn't have a domain id field. Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
2016-05-16ibft: Expose iBFT acpi header via sysfsDavid Bond1-1/+65
Some ethernet adapter vendors are supplying products which support optional (payed license) features. On some adapters this includes a hardware iscsi initiator. The same adapters in a normal (no extra licenses) mode of operation can be used as a software iscsi initiator. In addition, software iscsi boot initiators are becoming a standard part of many vendors uefi implementations. This is creating difficulties during early boot/install determining the proper configuration method for these adapters when they are used as a boot device. The attached patch creates sysfs entries to expose information from the acpi header of the ibft table. This information allows for a method to easily determining if an ibft table was created by a ethernet card's firmware or the system uefi/bios. In the case of a hardware initiator this information in combination with the pci vendor and device id can be used to ascertain any vendor specific behaviors that need to be accommodated. Reviewed-by: Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Bond <dbond@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2016-05-16iscsi_ibft: Add prefix-len attr and display netmaskHannes Reinecke1-0/+4
The iBFT table only specifies a prefix length, not a netmask. And the netmask is pretty much pointless for IPv6. So introduce a new attribute 'prefix-len'. Some older user-space code might rely on the netmask attribute being present, so we should always display it. Changes from v1: - Combined two patches into one Changes from v2: - Cleaned up/corrected wording for patch description Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
2015-06-06iscsi_ibft: filter null v4-mapped v6 addressesChris Leech1-15/+21
I've had reports of UEFI platforms failing iSCSI boot in various configurations, that ended up being caused by network initialization scripts getting tripped up by unexpected null addresses (0.0.0.0) being reported for gateways, dhcp servers, and dns servers. The tianocore EDK2 iSCSI driver generates an iBFT table that always uses IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses for the NIC structure fields. This results in values that are "not present or not specified" being reported as ::ffff:0.0.0.0 rather than all zeros as specified. The iscsi_ibft module filters unspecified fields from the iBFT from sysfs, preventing userspace from using invalid values and making it easy to check for the presence of a value. This currently fails in regard to these mapped null addresses. In order to remain consistent with how the iBFT information is exposed, we should accommodate the behavior of the tianocore iSCSI driver as it's already in the wild in a large number of servers. Tested under qemu using an OVMF build of tianocore EDK2. Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <cleech@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2014-05-13iscsi_ibft: Fix finding Broadcom specific ibft signVikas Chaudhary1-0/+1
Search for Broadcom specific ibft sign "BIFT" along with other possible values on UEFI This patch is fix for regression introduced in “935a9fee51c945b8942be2d7b4bae069167b4886”. https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/16/353 This impacts Broadcom CNA for iSCSI Boot on UEFI platform. Signed-off-by: Vikas Chaudhary <vikas.chaudhary@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Acked-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
2012-01-04switch ->is_visible() to returning umode_tAl Viro1-6/+6
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-12-13ibft: Fix finding IBFT ACPI table on UEFIYinghai Lu1-2/+40
Found one system with UEFI/iBFT, kernel does not detect the iBFT during iscsi_ibft module loading. Root cause: on x86 (UEFI), we are calling of find_ibft_region() much earlier - specifically in setup_arch() before ACPI is enabled. Try to split acpi checking code out and call that later At that time ACPI iBFT already get permanent mapped with ioremap. So isa_virt_to_bus() will get wrong phys from right virt address. We could just skip that phys address printing. For legacy one, print the found address early. -v2: update comments and description according to Konrad. -v3: fix problem about module use case that is found by Konrad. -v4: use acpi_get_table() instead of acpi_table_parse() to handle module use case that is found by Konrad again.. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
2011-06-30[SCSI] iscsi_ibft, be2iscsi, iscsi_boot: fix boot kobj data lifetime managementMike Christie1-3/+11
be2iscsi passes the boot functions its phba object which is allocated in the shost, but iscsi_ibft passes in a object allocated for each item to display. The problem is that iscsi_boot_sysfs was managing the lifetime of the object passed in and doing a kfree on release. This causes a double free for be2iscsi which frees the shost in its pci_remove. This patch fixes the problem by adding a release callback which the drivers can call kfree or a put() type of function (needed for be2iscsi which will do a get/put on the shost). Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
2011-04-26treewide: cleanup continuations and remove logging message whitespaceJoe Perches1-2/+2
Using C line continuation inside format strings is error prone. Clean up the unintended whitespace introduced by misuse of \. Neaten correctly used line continations as well for consistency. drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c has these errors as well, but arcmsr needs a lot more work and the driver should likely be moved to staging instead. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-08-12ibft: Kernel oops when rmmoding iscsi_ibft with no iBFT present.Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk1-2/+4
We failed to check to see if actually allocated structures to contain the iBFT structure and went ahead to dereference it. This patch fixes the OOPS. Reported-by: "Jayamohan Kalickal" <jayamohank@serverengines.com>   Tested-by: "Jayamohan Kalickal" <jayamohank@serverengines.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>  
2010-05-11ibft: convert iscsi_ibft module to iscsi boot libMike Christie1-451/+247
This patch just converts the iscsi_ibft module to the iscsi boot sysfs lib module. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
2010-05-11ibft: Update iBFT handling for v1.03 of the spec.Peter Jones1-12/+18
- Use struct acpi_table_ibft instead of struct ibft_table_header - Don't do reserve_ibft_region() on UEFI machines (section 1.4.3.1) - If ibft_addr isn't initialized when ibft_init() is called, check for ACPI-based tables. - Fix compiler error when CONFIG_ACPI is not defined. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
2010-03-08Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_typeEmese Revfy1-1/+1
Constify struct sysfs_ops. This is part of the ops structure constification effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al. Benefits of this constification: * prevents modification of data that is shared (referenced) by many other structure instances at runtime * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional) modification attempts on archs that enforce read-only kernel data at runtime * potentially better optimized code as the compiler can assume that the const data cannot be changed * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata and therefore exclude them from false sharing Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com> Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-01Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/David S. Miller1-5/+3
Conflicts: drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.c
2010-02-27drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.c: remove NIPQUAD_FMT, use %pI4Joe Perches1-5/+3
Convert netmask to __be32 and format it with %pI4 Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek <ketuzsezr@darnok.org> Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-07drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.c: use %pM to show MAC addresshartleys1-5/+1
Use the %pM kernel extension to display the MAC address. Also, remove the 'mac' variable and use nic->mac directly. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Acked-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-05iSCSI/iBFT: use proper address translationJan Beulich1-1/+1
In virtual environments (namely, Xen Dom0) virt <-> phys and virt <-> isa-bus translations cannot be freely interchanged (and even outside such environments it is not really correct to do so). When looking at memory below 1M, the latter translations should always be used. iscsi_ibft_find.c part from: Martin Wilck <martin.wilck@ts.fujitsu.com>. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <ketuzsezs@darnok.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-03ibft: fix the display of a few fields in the NIC attribute structure in sysfsAshutosh Naik1-2/+2
Fix the display of a few fields in the iBFT NIC attribute structure in sysfs. Ensure that, if the DHCP IP address and the subnet mask for the interface is present in the iBFT NIC structure, the corresponding entries are created in sysfs tree for the device. This would hence create the additional entries in the tree based on the iBFT table and would not delete any existing entries. Signed-off-by: Ashutosh Naik <ashutosh.naik@gmail.com> Cc: Vishnu V <vishnu@chelsio.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-11iscsi_ibft.c fix compilation warningJaswinder Singh Rajput1-2/+2
drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.c: In function ‘ibft_init’: drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.c:942: warning: format ‘%lx’ expects type ‘long unsigned int’, but argument 2 has type ‘phys_addr_t’ Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-31drivers: replace NIPQUAD()Harvey Harrison1-2/+1
Using NIPQUAD() with NIPQUAD_FMT, %d.%d.%d.%d or %u.%u.%u.%u can be replaced with %pI4 Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-29net: replace %p6 with %pI6Harvey Harrison1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-29misc: replace NIP6_FMT with %p6 format specifierHarvey Harrison1-3/+1
The iscsi_ibft.c changes are almost certainly a bugfix as the pointer 'ip' is a u8 *, so they never print the last 8 bytes of the IPv6 address, and the eight bytes they do print have a zero byte with them in each 16-bit word. Other than that, this should cause no difference in functionality. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-20x86: sysfs: kill owner field from attributeParag Warudkar1-1/+0
Tejun's commit 7b595756ec1f49e0049a9e01a1298d53a7faaa15 made sysfs attribute->owner unnecessary. But the field was left in the structure to ease the merge. It's been over a year since that change and it is now time to start killing attribute->owner along with its users - one arch at a time! This patch is attempt #1 to get rid of attribute->owner only for CONFIG_X86_64 or CONFIG_X86_32 . We will deal with other arches later on as and when possible - avr32 will be the next since that is something I can test. Compile (make allyesconfig / make allmodconfig / custom config) and boot tested. akpm: the idea is that we put the declaration of sttribute.owner inside `#ifndef CONFIG_X86'. But that proved to be too ambitious for now because new usages kept on turning up in subsystem trees. [akpm: remove the ifdef for now] Signed-off-by: Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@gmail.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.c: make 3 functions staticAdrian Bunk1-9/+9
This patch makes the following needlessly global functions static: - ibft_attr_show_initiator() - ibft_attr_show_nic() - ibft_attr_show_target() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek <ketuzsezr@darnok.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-09-03ibft: fix target info parsing in ibft moduleMike Christie1-2/+1
I got this patch through Red Hat's bugzilla from the bug submitter and patch creator. I have just fixed it up so it applies without fuzz to upstream kernels. Original patch and description from Shyam kumar Iyer: The issue [ibft module not displaying targets with short names] is because of an offset calculatation error in the iscsi_ibft.c code. Due to this error directory structure for the target in /sys/firmware/ibft does not get created and so the initiator is unable to connect to the target. Note that this bug surfaced only with an name that had a short section at the end. eg: "iqn.1984-05.com.dell:dell". It did not surface when the iqn's had a longer section at the end. eg: "iqn.2001-04.com.example:storage.disk2.sys1.xyz" So, the eot_offset was calculated such that an extra 48 bytes i.e. the size of the ibft_header which has already been accounted was subtracted twice. This was not evident with longer iqn names because they would overshoot the total ibft length more than 48 bytes and thus would escape the bug. Signed-off-by: Shyam Kumar Iyer <shyam_iyer@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek <konrad@virtualiron.com> Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-20Firmware: add iSCSI iBFT SupportKonrad Rzeszutek1-0/+982
Add /sysfs/firmware/ibft/[initiator|targetX|ethernetX] directories along with text properties which export the the iSCSI Boot Firmware Table (iBFT) structure. What is iSCSI Boot Firmware Table? It is a mechanism for the iSCSI tools to extract from the machine NICs the iSCSI connection information so that they can automagically mount the iSCSI share/target. Currently the iSCSI information is hard-coded in the initrd. The /sysfs entries are read-only one-name-and-value fields. The usual set of data exposed is: # for a in `find /sys/firmware/ibft/ -type f -print`; do echo -n "$a: "; cat $a; done /sys/firmware/ibft/target0/target-name: iqn.2007.com.intel-sbx44:storage-10gb /sys/firmware/ibft/target0/nic-assoc: 0 /sys/firmware/ibft/target0/chap-type: 0 /sys/firmware/ibft/target0/lun: 00000000 /sys/firmware/ibft/target0/port: 3260 /sys/firmware/ibft/target0/ip-addr: 192.168.79.116 /sys/firmware/ibft/target0/flags: 3 /sys/firmware/ibft/target0/index: 0 /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/mac: 00:11:25:9d:8b:01 /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/vlan: 0 /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/gateway: 192.168.79.254 /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/origin: 0 /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/subnet-mask: 255.255.252.0 /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/ip-addr: 192.168.77.41 /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/flags: 7 /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/index: 0 /sys/firmware/ibft/initiator/initiator-name: iqn.2007-07.com:konrad.initiator /sys/firmware/ibft/initiator/flags: 3 /sys/firmware/ibft/initiator/index: 0 For full details of the IBFT structure please take a look at: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/systems/support/system_x_pdf/ibm_iscsi_boot_firmware_table_v1.02.pdf [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek <konradr@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>