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efi: Avoid cold plugged memory for placing the kernel

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UEFI 2.11 introduced EFI_MEMORY_HOT_PLUGGABLE to annotate system memory
regions that are 'cold plugged' at boot, i.e., hot pluggable memory that
is available from early boot, and described as system RAM by the
firmware.

Existing loaders and EFI applications running in the boot context will
happily use this memory for allocating data structures that cannot be
freed or moved at runtime, and this prevents the memory from being
unplugged. Going forward, the new EFI_MEMORY_HOT_PLUGGABLE attribute
should be tested, and memory annotated as such should be avoided for
such allocations.

In the EFI stub, there are a couple of occurrences where, instead of the
high-level AllocatePages() UEFI boot service, a low-level code sequence
is used that traverses the EFI memory map and carves out the requested
number of pages from a free region. This is needed, e.g., for allocating
as low as possible, or for allocating pages at random.

While AllocatePages() should presumably avoid special purpose memory and
cold plugged regions, this manual approach needs to incorporate this
logic itself, in order to prevent the kernel itself from ending up in a
hot unpluggable region, preventing it from being unplugged.

So add the EFI_MEMORY_HOTPLUGGABLE macro definition, and check for it
where appropriate.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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Ard Biesheuvel 2025-02-01 18:21:35 +01:00
parent 2014c95afe
commit ba69e0750b
4 changed files with 11 additions and 2 deletions
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6
drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
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@ -934,13 +934,15 @@ char * __init efi_md_typeattr_format(char *buf, size_t size,
EFI_MEMORY_WB | EFI_MEMORY_UCE | EFI_MEMORY_RO |
EFI_MEMORY_WP | EFI_MEMORY_RP | EFI_MEMORY_XP |
EFI_MEMORY_NV | EFI_MEMORY_SP | EFI_MEMORY_CPU_CRYPTO |
EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME | EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE))
EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE | EFI_MEMORY_HOT_PLUGGABLE |
EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME))
snprintf(pos, size, "|attr=0x%016llx]",
(unsigned long long)attr);
else
snprintf(pos, size,
"|%3s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%3s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s]",
"|%3s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%3s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s]",
attr & EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME ? "RUN" : "",
attr & EFI_MEMORY_HOT_PLUGGABLE ? "HP" : "",
attr & EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE ? "MR" : "",
attr & EFI_MEMORY_CPU_CRYPTO ? "CC" : "",
attr & EFI_MEMORY_SP ? "SP" : "",

3
drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/randomalloc.c
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@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ static unsigned long get_entry_num_slots(efi_memory_desc_t *md,
if (md->type != EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY)
return 0;
if (md->attribute & EFI_MEMORY_HOT_PLUGGABLE)
return 0;
if (efi_soft_reserve_enabled() &&
(md->attribute & EFI_MEMORY_SP))
return 0;

3
drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/relocate.c
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@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ efi_status_t efi_low_alloc_above(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
if (desc->type != EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY)
continue;
if (desc->attribute & EFI_MEMORY_HOT_PLUGGABLE)
continue;
if (efi_soft_reserve_enabled() &&
(desc->attribute & EFI_MEMORY_SP))
continue;

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include/linux/efi.h
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@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ typedef struct {
#define EFI_MEMORY_RO ((u64)0x0000000000020000ULL) /* read-only */
#define EFI_MEMORY_SP ((u64)0x0000000000040000ULL) /* soft reserved */
#define EFI_MEMORY_CPU_CRYPTO ((u64)0x0000000000080000ULL) /* supports encryption */
#define EFI_MEMORY_HOT_PLUGGABLE BIT_ULL(20) /* supports unplugging at runtime */
#define EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME ((u64)0x8000000000000000ULL) /* range requires runtime mapping */
#define EFI_MEMORY_DESCRIPTOR_VERSION 1