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Ard Biesheuvel 930775060c x86/efistub: Call mixed mode boot services on the firmware's stack 
commit cefcd4fe2e upstream.

Normally, the EFI stub calls into the EFI boot services using the stack
that was live when the stub was entered. According to the UEFI spec,
this stack needs to be at least 128k in size - this might seem large but
all asynchronous processing and event handling in EFI runs from the same
stack and so quite a lot of space may be used in practice.

In mixed mode, the situation is a bit different: the bootloader calls
the 32-bit EFI stub entry point, which calls the decompressor's 32-bit
entry point, where the boot stack is set up, using a fixed allocation
of 16k. This stack is still in use when the EFI stub is started in
64-bit mode, and so all calls back into the EFI firmware will be using
the decompressor's limited boot stack.

Due to the placement of the boot stack right after the boot heap, any
stack overruns have gone unnoticed. However, commit

  5c4feadb00 ("x86/decompressor: Move global symbol references to C code")

moved the definition of the boot heap into C code, and now the boot
stack is placed right at the base of BSS, where any overruns will
corrupt the end of the .data section.

While it would be possible to work around this by increasing the size of
the boot stack, doing so would affect all x86 systems, and mixed mode
systems are a tiny (and shrinking) fraction of the x86 installed base.

So instead, record the firmware stack pointer value when entering from
the 32-bit firmware, and switch to this stack every time a EFI boot
service call is made.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # v6.1+
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2024-04-03 15:28:45 +02:00
arch x86/efistub: Call mixed mode boot services on the firmware's stack 2024-04-03 15:28:45 +02:00
block Revert "block/mq-deadline: use correct way to throttling write requests" 2024-04-03 15:28:33 +02:00
certs certs: Reference revocation list for all keyrings 2023-08-17 20:12:41 +00:00
crypto crypto: jitter - fix CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY help text 2024-03-26 18:19:52 -04:00
Documentation docs: Restore "smart quotes" for quotes 2024-04-03 15:28:22 +02:00
drivers drm/amd/display: handle range offsets in VRR ranges 2024-04-03 15:28:45 +02:00
fs fs/aio: Check IOCB_AIO_RW before the struct aio_kiocb conversion 2024-04-03 15:28:44 +02:00
include mm, vmscan: prevent infinite loop for costly GFP_NOIO | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL allocations 2024-04-03 15:28:44 +02:00
init init/Kconfig: lower GCC version check for -Warray-bounds 2024-04-03 15:28:41 +02:00
io_uring io_uring: clean rings on NO_MMAP alloc fail 2024-04-03 15:28:31 +02:00
ipc Add x86 shadow stack support 2023-08-31 12:20:12 -07:00
kernel tracing: Use .flush() call to wake up readers 2024-04-03 15:28:41 +02:00
lib pci_iounmap(): Fix MMIO mapping leak 2024-04-03 15:28:17 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm mm, vmscan: prevent infinite loop for costly GFP_NOIO | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL allocations 2024-04-03 15:28:44 +02:00
net xfrm: Avoid clang fortify warning in copy_to_user_tmpl() 2024-04-03 15:28:40 +02:00
rust rust: upgrade to Rust 1.73.0 2024-02-16 19:10:43 +01:00
samples work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with outputs 2024-02-23 09:24:47 +01:00
scripts kbuild: Move -Wenum-{compare-conditional,enum-conversion} into W=1 2024-04-03 15:28:29 +02:00
security landlock: Warn once if a Landlock action is requested while disabled 2024-04-03 15:28:27 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: fix mute/micmute LEDs for HP EliteBook 2024-04-03 15:28:44 +02:00
tools selftests: mptcp: diag: return KSFT_FAIL not test_cnt 2024-04-03 15:28:40 +02:00
usr initramfs: Encode dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP 2023-06-06 17:54:49 +09:00
virt KVM: Always flush async #PF workqueue when vCPU is being destroyed 2024-04-03 15:28:18 +02:00
.clang-format iommu: Add for_each_group_device() 2023-05-23 08:15:51 +02:00
.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: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: rename binkernel.spec to kernel.spec 2023-07-25 00:59:33 +09:00
.mailmap 20 hotfixes. 12 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.5 issues 2023-10-24 09:52:16 -10:00
.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 USB: Remove Wireless USB and UWB documentation 2023-08-09 14:17:32 +02:00
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 MAINTAINERS: add Catherine as xfs maintainer for 6.6.y 2024-02-16 19:10:43 +01:00
Makefile Linux 6.6.23 2024-03-26 18:22:53 -04:00
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.