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arm64: efi: Recover from synchronous exceptions occurring in firmware
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Unlike x86, which has machinery to deal with page faults that occur
during the execution of EFI runtime services, arm64 has nothing like
that, and a synchronous exception raised by firmware code brings down
the whole system.

With more EFI based systems appearing that were not built to run Linux
(such as the Windows-on-ARM laptops based on Qualcomm SOCs), as well as
the introduction of PRM (platform specific firmware routines that are
callable just like EFI runtime services), we are more likely to run into
issues of this sort, and it is much more likely that we can identify and
work around such issues if they don't bring down the system entirely.

Since we already use a EFI runtime services call wrapper in assembler,
we can quite easily add some code that captures the execution state at
the point where the call is made, allowing us to revert to this state
and proceed execution if the call triggered a synchronous exception.

Given that the kernel and the firmware don't share any data structures
that could end up in an indeterminate state, we can happily continue
running, as long as we mark the EFI runtime services as unavailable from
that point on.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
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ardbiesheuvel committed Nov 3, 2022
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8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h
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#ifdef CONFIG_EFI
extern void efi_init(void);

bool efi_runtime_fixup_exception(struct pt_regs *regs, const char *msg);
#else
#define efi_init()

static inline
bool efi_runtime_fixup_exception(struct pt_regs *regs, const char *msg)
{
return false;
}
#endif

int efi_create_mapping(struct mm_struct *mm, efi_memory_desc_t *md);
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33 changes: 31 additions & 2 deletions arch/arm64/kernel/efi-rt-wrapper.S
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#include <linux/linkage.h>

SYM_FUNC_START(__efi_rt_asm_wrapper)
stp x29, x30, [sp, #-32]!
stp x29, x30, [sp, #-112]!
mov x29, sp

/*
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*/
stp x1, x18, [sp, #16]

/*
* Preserve all callee saved registers and record the stack pointer
* value in a per-CPU variable so we can recover from synchronous
* exceptions occurring while running the firmware routines.
*/
stp x19, x20, [sp, #32]
stp x21, x22, [sp, #48]
stp x23, x24, [sp, #64]
stp x25, x26, [sp, #80]
stp x27, x28, [sp, #96]

adr_this_cpu x8, __efi_rt_asm_recover_sp, x9
str x29, [x8]

/*
* We are lucky enough that no EFI runtime services take more than
* 5 arguments, so all are passed in registers rather than via the
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ldp x1, x2, [sp, #16]
cmp x2, x18
ldp x29, x30, [sp], #32
ldp x29, x30, [sp], #112
b.ne 0f
ret
0:
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mov x18, x2
b efi_handle_corrupted_x18 // tail call
SYM_FUNC_END(__efi_rt_asm_wrapper)

SYM_FUNC_START(__efi_rt_asm_recover)
ldr_this_cpu x8, __efi_rt_asm_recover_sp, x9
mov sp, x8

ldp x0, x18, [sp, #16]
ldp x19, x20, [sp, #32]
ldp x21, x22, [sp, #48]
ldp x23, x24, [sp, #64]
ldp x25, x26, [sp, #80]
ldp x27, x28, [sp, #96]
ldp x29, x30, [sp], #112

b efi_handle_runtime_exception
SYM_FUNC_END(__efi_rt_asm_recover)
26 changes: 26 additions & 0 deletions arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c
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#include <linux/efi.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/percpu.h>

#include <asm/efi.h>

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pr_err_ratelimited(FW_BUG "register x18 corrupted by EFI %s\n", f);
return s;
}

asmlinkage DEFINE_PER_CPU(u64, __efi_rt_asm_recover_sp);

asmlinkage efi_status_t __efi_rt_asm_recover(void);

asmlinkage efi_status_t efi_handle_runtime_exception(const char *f)
{
pr_err(FW_BUG "Synchronous exception occurred in EFI runtime service %s()\n", f);
clear_bit(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES, &efi.flags);
return EFI_ABORTED;
}

bool efi_runtime_fixup_exception(struct pt_regs *regs, const char *msg)
{
/* Check whether the exception occurred while running the firmware */
if (current_work() != &efi_rts_work.work || regs->pc >= TASK_SIZE_64)
return false;

pr_err(FW_BUG "Unable to handle %s in EFI runtime service\n", msg);
add_taint(TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, LOCKDEP_STILL_OK);
dump_stack();

regs->pc = (u64)__efi_rt_asm_recover;
return true;
}
4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
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#include <asm/bug.h>
#include <asm/cmpxchg.h>
#include <asm/cpufeature.h>
#include <asm/efi.h>
#include <asm/exception.h>
#include <asm/daifflags.h>
#include <asm/debug-monitors.h>
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msg = "paging request";
}

if (efi_runtime_fixup_exception(regs, msg))
return;

die_kernel_fault(msg, addr, esr, regs);
}

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