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<updated>2023-09-23T09:14:32Z</updated>
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<title>efivarfs: fix statfs() on efivarfs</title>
<updated>2023-09-23T09:14:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Heinrich Schuchardt</name>
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<published>2023-09-10T04:54:45Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 79b83606abc778aa3cbee535b362ce905d0b9448 ]

Some firmware (notably U-Boot) provides GetVariable() and
GetNextVariableName() but not QueryVariableInfo().

With commit d86ff3333cb1 ("efivarfs: expose used and total size") the
statfs syscall was broken for such firmware.

If QueryVariableInfo() does not exist or returns EFI_UNSUPPORTED, just
report the file system size as 0 as statfs_simple() previously did.

Fixes: d86ff3333cb1 ("efivarfs: expose used and total size")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230910045445.41632-1-heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com/
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt &lt;heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com&gt;
[ardb: log warning on QueryVariableInfo() failure]
Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas &lt;ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>efivarfs: expose used and total size</title>
<updated>2023-05-17T16:21:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Anisse Astier</name>
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<published>2023-05-17T15:38:12Z</published>
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When writing EFI variables, one might get errors with no other message
on why it fails. Being able to see how much is used by EFI variables
helps analyzing such issues.

Since this is not a conventional filesystem, block size is intentionally
set to 1 instead of PAGE_SIZE.

x86 quirks of reserved size are taken into account; so that available
and free size can be different, further helping debugging space issues.

With this patch, one can see the remaining space in EFI variable storage
via efivarfs, like this:

   $ df -h /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/
   Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
   efivarfs        176K  106K   66K  62% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

Signed-off-by: Anisse Astier &lt;an.astier@criteo.com&gt;
[ardb: - rename efi_reserved_space() to efivar_reserved_space()
       - whitespace/coding style tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'efi-next-for-v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi</title>
<updated>2023-02-23T22:41:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
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<published>2023-02-23T22:41:48Z</published>
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Pull EFI updates from Ard Biesheuvel:
 "A healthy mix of EFI contributions this time:

   - Performance tweaks for efifb earlycon (Andy)

   - Preparatory refactoring and cleanup work in the efivar layer, which
     is needed to accommodate the Snapdragon arm64 laptops that expose
     their EFI variable store via a TEE secure world API (Johan)

   - Enhancements to the EFI memory map handling so that Xen dom0 can
     safely access EFI configuration tables (Demi Marie)

   - Wire up the newly introduced IBT/BTI flag in the EFI memory
     attributes table, so that firmware that is generated with ENDBR/BTI
     landing pads will be mapped with enforcement enabled

   - Clean up how we check and print the EFI revision exposed by the
     firmware

   - Incorporate EFI memory attributes protocol definition and wire it
     up in the EFI zboot code (Evgeniy)

     This ensures that these images can execute under new and stricter
     rules regarding the default memory permissions for EFI page
     allocations (More work is in progress here)

   - CPER header cleanup (Dan Williams)

   - Use a raw spinlock to protect the EFI runtime services stack on
     arm64 to ensure the correct semantics under -rt (Pierre)

   - EFI framebuffer quirk for Lenovo Ideapad (Darrell)"

* tag 'efi-next-for-v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi: (24 commits)
  firmware/efi sysfb_efi: Add quirk for Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 3
  arm64: efi: Make efi_rt_lock a raw_spinlock
  efi: Add mixed-mode thunk recipe for GetMemoryAttributes
  efi: x86: Wire up IBT annotation in memory attributes table
  efi: arm64: Wire up BTI annotation in memory attributes table
  efi: Discover BTI support in runtime services regions
  efi/cper, cxl: Remove cxl_err.h
  efi: Use standard format for printing the EFI revision
  efi: Drop minimum EFI version check at boot
  efi: zboot: Use EFI protocol to remap code/data with the right attributes
  efi/libstub: Add memory attribute protocol definitions
  efi: efivars: prevent double registration
  efi: verify that variable services are supported
  efivarfs: always register filesystem
  efi: efivars: add efivars printk prefix
  efi: Warn if trying to reserve memory under Xen
  efi: Actually enable the ESRT under Xen
  efi: Apply allowlist to EFI configuration tables when running under Xen
  efi: xen: Implement memory descriptor lookup based on hypercall
  efi: memmap: Disregard bogus entries instead of returning them
  ...
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<title>efivarfs: always register filesystem</title>
<updated>2023-01-26T20:32:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Johan Hovold</name>
</author>
<published>2023-01-19T16:42:53Z</published>
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The efivar ops are typically registered at subsys init time so that
they are available when efivarfs is registered at module init time.

Other efivars implementations, such as Google SMI, exist and can
currently be built as modules which means that efivar may not be
available when efivarfs is initialised.

Move the efivar availability check from module init to when the
filesystem is mounted to allow late registration of efivars.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold &lt;johan+linaro@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: port -&gt;fileattr_set() to pass mnt_idmap</title>
<updated>2023-01-19T08:24:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
</author>
<published>2023-01-13T11:49:21Z</published>
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Convert to struct mnt_idmap.

Last cycle we merged the necessary infrastructure in
256c8aed2b42 ("fs: introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts").
This is just the conversion to struct mnt_idmap.

Currently we still pass around the plain namespace that was attached to a
mount. This is in general pretty convenient but it makes it easy to
conflate namespaces that are relevant on the filesystem with namespaces
that are relevent on the mount level. Especially for non-vfs developers
without detailed knowledge in this area this can be a potential source for
bugs.

Once the conversion to struct mnt_idmap is done all helpers down to the
really low-level helpers will take a struct mnt_idmap argument instead of
two namespace arguments. This way it becomes impossible to conflate the two
eliminating the possibility of any bugs. All of the vfs and all filesystems
only operate on struct mnt_idmap.

Acked-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>fs: port -&gt;create() to pass mnt_idmap</title>
<updated>2023-01-19T08:24:25Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
</author>
<published>2023-01-13T11:49:13Z</published>
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Convert to struct mnt_idmap.

Last cycle we merged the necessary infrastructure in
256c8aed2b42 ("fs: introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts").
This is just the conversion to struct mnt_idmap.

Currently we still pass around the plain namespace that was attached to a
mount. This is in general pretty convenient but it makes it easy to
conflate namespaces that are relevant on the filesystem with namespaces
that are relevent on the mount level. Especially for non-vfs developers
without detailed knowledge in this area this can be a potential source for
bugs.

Once the conversion to struct mnt_idmap is done all helpers down to the
really low-level helpers will take a struct mnt_idmap argument instead of
two namespace arguments. This way it becomes impossible to conflate the two
eliminating the possibility of any bugs. All of the vfs and all filesystems
only operate on struct mnt_idmap.

Acked-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>efi: efivars: drop kobject from efivars_register()</title>
<updated>2023-01-17T15:14:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Johan Hovold</name>
</author>
<published>2023-01-17T12:43:09Z</published>
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Since commit 0f5b2c69a4cb ("efi: vars: Remove deprecated 'efivars' sysfs
interface") and the removal of the sysfs interface there are no users of
the efivars kobject.

Drop the kobject argument from efivars_register() and add a new
efivar_is_available() helper in favour of the old efivars_kobject().

Note that the new helper uses the prefix 'efivar' (i.e. without an 's')
for consistency with efivar_supports_writes() and the rest of the
interface (except the registration functions).

For the benefit of drivers with optional EFI support, also provide a
dummy implementation of efivar_is_available().

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold &lt;johan+linaro@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>efi: vars: prohibit reading random seed variables</title>
<updated>2022-12-01T08:51:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
</author>
<published>2022-11-22T02:04:00Z</published>
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In anticipation of putting random seeds in EFI variables, it's important
that the random GUID namespace of variables remains hidden from
userspace. We accomplish this by not populating efivarfs with entries
from that GUID, as well as denying the creation of new ones in that
GUID.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>efi: efivars: Fix variable writes without query_variable_store()</title>
<updated>2022-10-21T09:09:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
</author>
<published>2022-10-19T21:29:58Z</published>
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Commit bbc6d2c6ef22 ("efi: vars: Switch to new wrapper layer")
refactored the efivars layer so that the 'business logic' related to
which UEFI variables affect the boot flow in which way could be moved
out of it, and into the efivarfs driver.

This inadvertently broke setting variables on firmware implementations
that lack the QueryVariableInfo() boot service, because we no longer
tolerate a EFI_UNSUPPORTED result from check_var_size() when calling
efivar_entry_set_get_size(), which now ends up calling check_var_size()
a second time inadvertently.

If QueryVariableInfo() is missing, we support writes of up to 64k -
let's move that logic into check_var_size(), and drop the redundant
call.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v6.0
Fixes: bbc6d2c6ef22 ("efi: vars: Switch to new wrapper layer")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>efi: vars: Move efivar caching layer into efivarfs</title>
<updated>2022-06-24T18:40:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
</author>
<published>2022-06-20T16:19:43Z</published>
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Move the fiddly bits of the efivar layer into its only remaining user,
efivarfs, and confine its use to that particular module. All other uses
of the EFI variable store have no need for this additional layer of
complexity, given that they either only read variables, or read and
write variables into a separate GUIDed namespace, and cannot be used to
manipulate EFI variables that are covered by the EFI spec and/or affect
the boot flow.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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