[PATCH 3/6] efi_loader: Replace config option with EFI variable for initrd loading

Ilias Apalodimas ilias.apalodimas at linaro.org
Mon Dec 28 13:24:35 CET 2020


Up to now we register EFI_LOAD_FILE2_PROTOCOL to load an initrd
unconditionally. Although we correctly return various EFI return codes
depending on the file status (i.e EFI_NO_MEDIA, EFI_NOT_FOUND etc), the
kernel loader, only falls back to the cmdline interpreted initrd if the
protocol is not registered.

This creates a problem for EFI installers, since they won't be able to
load their own initrd and continue the installation.

So let's introduce a different logic that will decopouple the initrd
path from the config option we currently support.
When the EFI application is launched through the bootmgr, we'll try to
match the BootCurrent value to an Initrd#### EFI variable.
i.e Boot0000 -> Initrd0000, Boot0010 -> Initrd0010 etc.

The Initrd#### EFI variable is expected to include the full file path,
i.e 'mmc 0:1 initrd'.  If the file is found, we'll register the
appropriate protocol so the kernel's efi-stub load our initrd.
If the file is not found the kernel will still try to load an initrd
parsing the kernel cmdline, since the protocol won't be registered.

This opens up another path using U-Boot and defines a new boot flow.
A user will be able to control the kernel/initrd pairs without explicit
cmdline args or GRUB. So we can base the whole boot flow on the Boot####
and Initrd#### paired values.

Suggested-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas at linaro.org>
---
 lib/efi_loader/Kconfig           | 12 ++---
 lib/efi_loader/Makefile          |  2 +-
 lib/efi_loader/efi_bootmgr.c     |  6 ++-
 lib/efi_loader/efi_load_initrd.c | 86 +++++++++-----------------------
 4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/Kconfig b/lib/efi_loader/Kconfig
index dd8b93bd3c5a..eca24e82b8b1 100644
--- a/lib/efi_loader/Kconfig
+++ b/lib/efi_loader/Kconfig
@@ -212,14 +212,10 @@ config EFI_LOAD_FILE2_INITRD
 	help
 	  Expose a EFI_FILE_LOAD2_PROTOCOL that the Linux UEFI stub can
 	  use to load the initial ramdisk. Once this is enabled using
-	  initrd=<ramdisk> will stop working.
-
-config EFI_INITRD_FILESPEC
-	string "initramfs path"
-	default "host 0:1 initrd"
-	depends on EFI_LOAD_FILE2_INITRD
-	help
-	  Full path of the initramfs file, e.g. mmc 0:2 initramfs.cpio.gz.
+	  initrd=<ramdisk> will stop working. The protocol will only be
+	  registered if bootmgr is used and the file is found on the defined
+	  path. A boot entry of Boot0001 will try to match Initrd0001 and use
+	  it. Initrd format 'mmc 0:1 <filename>'
 
 config EFI_SECURE_BOOT
 	bool "Enable EFI secure boot support"
diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/Makefile b/lib/efi_loader/Makefile
index cd4b252a417c..793e5b7f8730 100644
--- a/lib/efi_loader/Makefile
+++ b/lib/efi_loader/Makefile
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_GENERATE_ACPI_TABLE) += efi_acpi.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_GENERATE_SMBIOS_TABLE) += efi_smbios.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL) += efi_rng.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_EFI_TCG2_PROTOCOL) += efi_tcg2.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_EFI_LOAD_FILE2_INITRD) += efi_load_initrd.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_EFI_LOAD_FILE2_INITRD) += efi_helper.o efi_load_initrd.o
 obj-y += efi_signature.o
 
 EFI_VAR_SEED_FILE := $(subst $\",,$(CONFIG_EFI_VAR_SEED_FILE))
diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/efi_bootmgr.c b/lib/efi_loader/efi_bootmgr.c
index 61dc72a23da8..ceca5c5b1bf3 100644
--- a/lib/efi_loader/efi_bootmgr.c
+++ b/lib/efi_loader/efi_bootmgr.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #include <log.h>
 #include <malloc.h>
 #include <efi_loader.h>
+#include <efi_load_initrd.h>
 #include <efi_variable.h>
 #include <asm/unaligned.h>
 
@@ -348,8 +349,11 @@ efi_status_t efi_bootmgr_load(efi_handle_t *handle, void **load_options)
 		log_debug("%s trying to load Boot%04X\n", __func__,
 			  bootorder[i]);
 		ret = try_load_entry(bootorder[i], handle, load_options);
-		if (ret == EFI_SUCCESS)
+		if (ret == EFI_SUCCESS) {
+			if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_EFI_LOAD_FILE2_INITRD))
+				ret = efi_initrd_register();
 			break;
+		}
 	}
 
 	free(bootorder);
diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/efi_load_initrd.c b/lib/efi_loader/efi_load_initrd.c
index d517d686c330..984fea1bd679 100644
--- a/lib/efi_loader/efi_load_initrd.c
+++ b/lib/efi_loader/efi_load_initrd.c
@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@
 #include <dm.h>
 #include <fs.h>
 #include <efi_loader.h>
+#include <efi_variable.h>
 #include <efi_load_initrd.h>
+#include <efi_helper.h>
 
 static const efi_guid_t efi_guid_load_file2_protocol =
 		EFI_LOAD_FILE2_PROTOCOL_GUID;
@@ -45,40 +47,7 @@ static const struct efi_initrd_dp dp = {
 };
 
 /**
- * get_file_size() - retrieve the size of initramfs, set efi status on error
- *
- * @dev:			device to read from, e.g. "mmc"
- * @part:			device partition, e.g. "0:1"
- * @file:			name of file
- * @status:			EFI exit code in case of failure
- *
- * Return:			size of file
- */
-static loff_t get_file_size(const char *dev, const char *part, const char *file,
-			    efi_status_t *status)
-{
-	loff_t sz = 0;
-	int ret;
-
-	ret = fs_set_blk_dev(dev, part, FS_TYPE_ANY);
-	if (ret) {
-		*status = EFI_NO_MEDIA;
-		goto out;
-	}
-
-	ret = fs_size(file, &sz);
-	if (ret) {
-		sz = 0;
-		*status = EFI_NOT_FOUND;
-		goto out;
-	}
-
-out:
-	return sz;
-}
-
-/**
- * efi_load_file2initrd() - load initial RAM disk
+ * efi_load_file2_initrd() - load initial RAM disk
  *
  * This function implements the LoadFile service of the EFI_LOAD_FILE2_PROTOCOL
  * in order to load an initial RAM disk requested by the Linux kernel stub.
@@ -98,21 +67,14 @@ efi_load_file2_initrd(struct efi_load_file_protocol *this,
 		      struct efi_device_path *file_path, bool boot_policy,
 		      efi_uintn_t *buffer_size, void *buffer)
 {
-	char *filespec;
 	efi_status_t status = EFI_NOT_FOUND;
 	loff_t file_sz = 0, read_sz = 0;
-	char *dev, *part, *file;
-	char *pos;
 	int ret;
+	struct load_file_info info;
 
 	EFI_ENTRY("%p, %p, %d, %p, %p", this, file_path, boot_policy,
 		  buffer_size, buffer);
 
-	filespec = strdup(CONFIG_EFI_INITRD_FILESPEC);
-	if (!filespec)
-		goto out;
-	pos = filespec;
-
 	if (!this || this != &efi_lf2_protocol ||
 	    !buffer_size) {
 		status = EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER;
@@ -130,24 +92,11 @@ efi_load_file2_initrd(struct efi_load_file_protocol *this,
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * expect a string with three space separated parts:
-	 *
-	 * * a block device type, e.g. "mmc"
-	 * * a device and partition identifier, e.g. "0:1"
-	 * * a file path on the block device, e.g. "/boot/initrd.cpio.gz"
-	 */
-	dev = strsep(&pos, " ");
-	if (!dev)
-		goto out;
-	part = strsep(&pos, " ");
-	if (!part)
-		goto out;
-	file = strsep(&pos, " ");
-	if (!file)
+	status = efi_get_fp_from_var(L"Initrd####", 6, &info);
+	if (status != EFI_SUCCESS)
 		goto out;
 
-	file_sz = get_file_size(dev, part, file, &status);
+	file_sz = get_file_size(&info, &status);
 	if (!file_sz)
 		goto out;
 
@@ -155,23 +104,25 @@ efi_load_file2_initrd(struct efi_load_file_protocol *this,
 		status = EFI_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL;
 		*buffer_size = file_sz;
 	} else {
-		ret = fs_set_blk_dev(dev, part, FS_TYPE_ANY);
+		ret = fs_set_blk_dev(info.dev, info.part,
+				     FS_TYPE_ANY);
 		if (ret) {
 			status = EFI_NO_MEDIA;
 			goto out;
 		}
 
-		ret = fs_read(file, map_to_sysmem(buffer), 0, *buffer_size,
-			      &read_sz);
-		if (ret || read_sz != file_sz)
+		ret = fs_read(info.filename, map_to_sysmem(buffer), 0,
+			      *buffer_size, &read_sz);
+		if (ret || read_sz != file_sz) {
+			status = EFI_DEVICE_ERROR;
 			goto out;
+		}
 		*buffer_size = read_sz;
 
 		status = EFI_SUCCESS;
 	}
 
 out:
-	free(filespec);
 	return EFI_EXIT(status);
 }
 
@@ -189,6 +140,15 @@ efi_status_t efi_initrd_register(void)
 {
 	efi_handle_t efi_initrd_handle = NULL;
 	efi_status_t ret;
+	struct load_file_info info;
+
+	ret = efi_get_fp_from_var(L"Initrd####", 6, &info);
+	/*
+	 * Don't fail here. If we don't register the protocol the efi-stub will
+	 * try to load and initrd parsing the kernel cmdline
+	 */
+	if (ret != EFI_SUCCESS)
+		return EFI_SUCCESS;
 
 	ret = EFI_CALL(efi_install_multiple_protocol_interfaces
 		       (&efi_initrd_handle,
-- 
2.30.0.rc2



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