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Ard Biesheuvel 7bc9533e07 x86/efi: Make the deprecated EFI handover protocol optional 
commit cc3fdda287 upstream.

The EFI handover protocol permits a bootloader to invoke the kernel as a
EFI PE/COFF application, while passing a bootparams struct as a third
argument to the entrypoint function call.

This has no basis in the UEFI specification, and there are better ways
to pass additional data to a UEFI application (UEFI configuration
tables, UEFI variables, UEFI protocols) than going around the
StartImage() boot service and jumping to a fixed offset in the loaded
image, just to call a different function that takes a third parameter.

The reason for handling struct bootparams in the bootloader was that the
EFI stub could only load initrd images from the EFI system partition,
and so passing it via struct bootparams was needed for loaders like
GRUB, which pass the initrd in memory, and may load it from anywhere,
including from the network. Another motivation was EFI mixed mode, which
could not use the initrd loader in the EFI stub at all due to 32/64 bit
incompatibilities (which will be fixed shortly [0]), and could not
invoke the ordinary PE/COFF entry point either, for the same reasons.

Given that loaders such as GRUB already carried the bootparams handling
in order to implement non-EFI boot, retaining that code and just passing
bootparams to the EFI stub was a reasonable choice (although defining an
alternate entrypoint could have been avoided.) However, the GRUB side
changes never made it upstream, and are only shipped by some of the
distros in their downstream versions.

In the meantime, EFI support has been added to other Linux architecture
ports, as well as to U-boot and systemd, including arch-agnostic methods
for passing initrd images in memory [1], and for doing mixed mode boot
[2], none of them requiring anything like the EFI handover protocol. So
given that only out-of-tree distro GRUB relies on this, let's permit it
to be omitted from the build, in preparation for retiring it completely
at a later date. (Note that systemd-boot does have an implementation as
well, but only uses it as a fallback for booting images that do not
implement the LoadFile2 based initrd loading method, i.e., v5.8 or older)

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220927085842.2860715-1-ardb@kernel.org/
[1] ec93fc371f ("efi/libstub: Add support for loading the initrd from a device path")
[2] 97aa276579 ("efi/x86: Add true mixed mode entry point into .compat section")

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221122161017.2426828-18-ardb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2024-03-06 14:45:13 +00:00
arch x86/efi: Make the deprecated EFI handover protocol optional 2024-03-06 14:45:13 +00:00
block block: Fix WARNING in _copy_from_iter 2024-03-01 13:26:25 +01:00
certs certs: Fix build error when PKCS#11 URI contains semicolon 2023-02-09 11:28:11 +01:00
crypto crypto: api - Disallow identical driver names 2024-01-31 16:16:58 -08:00
Documentation arm64: Subscribe Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 to ARM Neoverse N2 errata 2024-02-23 09:12:52 +01:00
drivers efi: verify that variable services are supported 2024-03-06 14:45:13 +00:00
fs efivarfs: Request at most 512 bytes for variable names 2024-03-06 14:45:11 +00:00
include netfilter: bridge: confirm multicast packets before passing them up the stack 2024-03-06 14:45:08 +00:00
init update workarounds for gcc "asm goto" issue 2024-02-23 09:12:28 +01:00
io_uring io_uring/net: fix multishot accept overflow handling 2024-02-23 09:12:43 +01:00
ipc ipc: fix memory leak in init_mqueue_fs() 2022-12-31 13:32:01 +01:00
kernel bpf: Fix racing between bpf_timer_cancel_and_free and bpf_timer_cancel 2024-03-01 13:26:36 +01:00
lib netlink: add nla be16/32 types to minlen array 2024-03-06 14:45:06 +00:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm mm: huge_memory: don't force huge page alignment on 32 bit 2024-03-06 14:45:06 +00:00
net mptcp: fix possible deadlock in subflow diag 2024-03-06 14:45:12 +00:00
rust rust: allocator: Prevent mis-aligned allocation 2023-08-11 12:08:18 +02:00
samples work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with outputs 2024-02-23 09:12:28 +01:00
scripts bpf, scripts: Correct GPL license name 2024-03-01 13:26:35 +01:00
security landlock: Fix asymmetric private inodes referring 2024-03-06 14:45:10 +00:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: fix mute/micmute LED For HP mt440 2024-03-06 14:45:09 +00:00
tools selftests: mptcp: join: add ss mptcp support check 2024-03-06 14:45:12 +00:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt kvm/vfio: ensure kvg instance stays around in kvm_vfio_group_add() 2023-09-13 09:42:46 +02:00
.clang-format inet: ping: use hlist_nulls rcu iterator during lookup 2022-12-01 12:42:46 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore Kbuild: add Rust support 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
.mailmap 9 hotfixes. 6 for MM, 3 for other areas. Four of these patches address 2022-12-10 17:10:52 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Michal Marek from Kbuild maintainers 2022-11-16 14:53:00 +09:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS genirq/affinity: Move group_cpus_evenly() into lib/ 2024-01-10 17:10:33 +01:00
Makefile Linux 6.1.80 2024-03-01 13:26:39 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.