[PATCH v2 2/3] efi_loader: binary_run: register an initrd

Adriano Córdova adrianox at gmail.com
Mon Apr 28 03:48:45 CEST 2025


Hi Weizhao,

Thank you for spotting this. I sent a patch, which you can also find here
on top of master:
https://github.com/0n41rd4/u-boot/tree/efi_initrd

Best,
Adriano


El dom, 27 abr 2025 a las 5:08, Weizhao Ouyang (<o451686892 at gmail.com>)
escribió:

> On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 11:45:00AM -0300, Adriano Cordova wrote:
> > Add support to install an initrd when running an EFI binary
> > with efi_binary_run
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Adriano Cordova <adriano.cordova at canonical.com>
>
> Hi Adriano,
>
> Recently I bumped U-Boot version on my Debian kit then it crashed while
> booting linux kernel:
>
> GRUB log:
> Loading Linux 6.12.22-arm64 ...
> Loading initial ramdisk ...
> error: failed to install protocols.
>
> Kernel log:
> [    0.794160] VFS: Cannot open root device
> "UUID=ebb74af9-b4b8-45bf-b1b9-d30d094a071d" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6
> [    0.795080] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the
> available partitions:
> [    0.795814] List of all bdev filesystems:
> [    0.796168]  fuseblk
> [    0.796170]
> [    0.796500] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(0,0)
> [    0.797226] CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted
> 6.12.22-arm64 #1  Debian 6.12.22-1
> [    0.797993] Hardware name: armsom ArmSoM Sige7/ArmSoM Sige7, BIOS
> 2025.04-g36835a9105cf-dirty 04/01/2025
> [    0.798823] Call trace:
> [    0.799041]  dump_backtrace+0xd8/0x130
> [    0.799380]  show_stack+0x20/0x38
> [    0.799675]  dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x80
> [    0.800003]  dump_stack+0x18/0x28
> [    0.800298]  panic+0x164/0x378
> [    0.800575]  mount_root_generic+0x200/0x2c8
> [    0.800948]  mount_root+0x17c/0x1a8
> [    0.801258]  prepare_namespace+0x1e0/0x250
> [    0.801623]  kernel_init_freeable+0x2c4/0x2f0
> [    0.802010]  kernel_init+0x28/0x150
> [    0.802323]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
> [    0.802643] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
> [    0.803101] Kernel Offset: 0x48fed5ba0000 from 0xffff800080000000
> [    0.803637] PHYS_OFFSET: 0xfff0f41e80000000
> [    0.804005] CPU features: 0x18,00000017,00280928,4201720b
> [    0.804482] Memory Limit: none
> [    0.804756] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount
> root fs on unknown-block(0,0) ]---
>
> I git bisect it to this commit. I didn't dive into the details, just did
> a workaround as below, please check it out:
>
> diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/efi_bootbin.c b/lib/efi_loader/efi_bootbin.c
> index 2cf972343a45..cd947bb525c4 100644
> --- a/lib/efi_loader/efi_bootbin.c
> +++ b/lib/efi_loader/efi_bootbin.c
> @@ -234,6 +234,9 @@ static efi_status_t efi_binary_run_dp(void *image,
> size_t size, void *fdt,
>         if (ret != EFI_SUCCESS)
>                 return ret;
>
> +       if (!initrd)
> +               goto out;
> +
>         dp_initrd = efi_dp_from_mem(EFI_LOADER_DATA, (uintptr_t)initrd,
> initd_sz);
>         if (!dp_initrd)
>                 return EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES;
> @@ -242,6 +245,7 @@ static efi_status_t efi_binary_run_dp(void *image,
> size_t size, void *fdt,
>         if (ret != EFI_SUCCESS)
>                 return ret;
>
> +out:
>         return efi_run_image(image, size, dp_dev, dp_img);
>  }
>
>
> BR,
> Weizhao
>
> > ---
> >
> > Changes in v2:
> > - Change EFI_RESERVED_MEMORY_TYPE for EFI_LOADER_DATA for dp_initrd
> >
> >  boot/bootm_os.c              |  3 ++-
> >  cmd/bootefi.c                |  2 +-
> >  include/efi_loader.h         |  2 +-
> >  lib/efi_loader/efi_bootbin.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++---
> >  4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/boot/bootm_os.c b/boot/bootm_os.c
> > index e9522cd3299..f403f352be1 100644
> > --- a/boot/bootm_os.c
> > +++ b/boot/bootm_os.c
> > @@ -507,7 +507,8 @@ static int do_bootm_efi(int flag, struct bootm_info
> *bmi)
> >
> >       ret = efi_binary_run(image_buf, images->os.image_len,
> >                            images->ft_len
> > -                          ? images->ft_addr : EFI_FDT_USE_INTERNAL);
> > +                          ? images->ft_addr : EFI_FDT_USE_INTERNAL,
> > +                              NULL, 0);
> >
> >       return ret;
> >  }
> > diff --git a/cmd/bootefi.c b/cmd/bootefi.c
> > index c1454ffb948..dce8285b047 100644
> > --- a/cmd/bootefi.c
> > +++ b/cmd/bootefi.c
> > @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ static int do_bootefi(struct cmd_tbl *cmdtp, int
> flag, int argc,
> >               }
> >       }
> >
> > -     ret = efi_binary_run(image_buf, size, fdt);
> > +     ret = efi_binary_run(image_buf, size, fdt, NULL, 0);
> >
> >       if (ret != EFI_SUCCESS)
> >               return CMD_RET_FAILURE;
> > diff --git a/include/efi_loader.h b/include/efi_loader.h
> > index cc732dc4807..ad60805ae4f 100644
> > --- a/include/efi_loader.h
> > +++ b/include/efi_loader.h
> > @@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ efi_status_t efi_install_fdt(void *fdt);
> >  /* Execute loaded UEFI image */
> >  efi_status_t do_bootefi_exec(efi_handle_t handle, void *load_options);
> >  /* Run loaded UEFI image with given fdt */
> > -efi_status_t efi_binary_run(void *image, size_t size, void *fdt);
> > +efi_status_t efi_binary_run(void *image, size_t size, void *fdt, void
> *initrd, size_t initrd_sz);
> >
> >  /**
> >   * efi_bootflow_run() - Run a bootflow containing an EFI application
> > diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/efi_bootbin.c b/lib/efi_loader/efi_bootbin.c
> > index deafb2ce1c2..2cf972343a4 100644
> > --- a/lib/efi_loader/efi_bootbin.c
> > +++ b/lib/efi_loader/efi_bootbin.c
> > @@ -204,6 +204,8 @@ out:
> >   * @image:   memory address of the UEFI image
> >   * @size:    size of the UEFI image
> >   * @fdt:     device-tree
> > + * @initrd:  initrd
> > + * @initrd_sz:       initrd size
> >   * @dp_dev:  EFI device-path
> >   * @dp_img:  EFI image-path
> >   *
> > @@ -213,10 +215,12 @@ out:
> >   * Return:   status code
> >   */
> >  static efi_status_t efi_binary_run_dp(void *image, size_t size, void
> *fdt,
> > +                                   void *initrd, size_t initd_sz,
> >                                     struct efi_device_path *dp_dev,
> >                                     struct efi_device_path *dp_img)
> >  {
> >       efi_status_t ret;
> > +     struct efi_device_path *dp_initrd;
> >
> >       /* Initialize EFI drivers */
> >       ret = efi_init_obj_list();
> > @@ -230,6 +234,14 @@ static efi_status_t efi_binary_run_dp(void *image,
> size_t size, void *fdt,
> >       if (ret != EFI_SUCCESS)
> >               return ret;
> >
> > +     dp_initrd = efi_dp_from_mem(EFI_LOADER_DATA, (uintptr_t)initrd,
> initd_sz);
> > +     if (!dp_initrd)
> > +             return EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES;
> > +
> > +     ret = efi_initrd_register(dp_initrd);
> > +     if (ret != EFI_SUCCESS)
> > +             return ret;
> > +
> >       return efi_run_image(image, size, dp_dev, dp_img);
> >  }
> >
> > @@ -239,13 +251,15 @@ static efi_status_t efi_binary_run_dp(void *image,
> size_t size, void *fdt,
> >   * @image:   memory address of the UEFI image
> >   * @size:    size of the UEFI image
> >   * @fdt:     device-tree
> > + * @initrd:  initrd
> > + * @initrd_sz:       initrd size
> >   *
> >   * Execute an EFI binary image loaded at @image.
> >   * @size may be zero if the binary is loaded with U-Boot load command.
> >   *
> >   * Return:   status code
> >   */
> > -efi_status_t efi_binary_run(void *image, size_t size, void *fdt)
> > +efi_status_t efi_binary_run(void *image, size_t size, void *fdt, void
> *initrd, size_t initrd_sz)
> >  {
> >       efi_handle_t mem_handle = NULL;
> >       struct efi_device_path *file_path = NULL;
> > @@ -273,7 +287,7 @@ efi_status_t efi_binary_run(void *image, size_t
> size, void *fdt)
> >               log_debug("Loaded from disk\n");
> >       }
> >
> > -     ret = efi_binary_run_dp(image, size, fdt, bootefi_device_path,
> > +     ret = efi_binary_run_dp(image, size, fdt, initrd, initrd_sz,
> bootefi_device_path,
> >                               bootefi_image_path);
> >  out:
> >       if (mem_handle) {
> > @@ -355,7 +369,7 @@ efi_status_t efi_bootflow_run(struct bootflow *bflow)
> >               log_debug("Booting with external fdt\n");
> >               fdt = map_sysmem(bflow->fdt_addr, 0);
> >       }
> > -     ret = efi_binary_run_dp(bflow->buf, bflow->size, fdt, device,
> image);
> > +     ret = efi_binary_run_dp(bflow->buf, bflow->size, fdt, NULL, 0,
> device, image);
> >
> >       return ret;
> >  }
> > --
> > 2.48.1
> >
>


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