[PATCH v9 06/23] x86/efistub: Clear BSS in EFI handover protocol entrypoint

Ard Biesheuvel posted 23 patches 2 years, 1 month ago
[PATCH v9 06/23] x86/efistub: Clear BSS in EFI handover protocol entrypoint
Posted by Ard Biesheuvel 2 years, 1 month ago
The so-called EFI handover protocol is value-add from the distros that
permits a loader to simply copy a PE kernel image into memory and call
an alternative entrypoint that is described by an embedded boot_params
structure.

Most implementations of this protocol do not bother to check the PE
header for minimum alignment, section placement, etc, and therefore also
don't clear the image's BSS, or even allocate enough memory for it.

Allocating more memory on the fly is rather difficult, but at least
clear the BSS region explicitly when entering in this manner, so that
the EFI stub code does not get confused by global variables that were
not zero-initialized correctly.

When booting in mixed mode, this BSS clearing must occur before any
global state is created, so clear it in the 32-bit asm entry point.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi_mixed.S    | 14 +++++++++++++-
 drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c | 13 +++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi_mixed.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi_mixed.S
index 9308b595f6f0a5de..8a02a151806df14c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi_mixed.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi_mixed.S
@@ -142,6 +142,18 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(__efi64_thunk)
 	.code32
 #ifdef CONFIG_EFI_HANDOVER_PROTOCOL
 SYM_FUNC_START(efi32_stub_entry)
+	call	1f
+1:	popl	%ecx
+
+	/* Clear BSS */
+	xorl	%eax, %eax
+	leal	(_bss - 1b)(%ecx), %edi
+	leal	(_ebss - 1b)(%ecx), %ecx
+	subl	%edi, %ecx
+	shrl	$2, %ecx
+	cld
+	rep	stosl
+
 	add	$0x4, %esp		/* Discard return address */
 	popl	%ecx
 	popl	%edx
@@ -334,7 +346,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(efi32_pe_entry)
 	.org	efi32_stub_entry + 0x200
 	.code64
 SYM_FUNC_START_NOALIGN(efi64_stub_entry)
-	jmp	efi_stub_entry
+	jmp	efi_handover_entry
 SYM_FUNC_END(efi64_stub_entry)
 #endif
 
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c
index 3f3b3edf7a387d7c..9247dbc7dbbd12ef 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c
@@ -970,12 +970,21 @@ void __noreturn efi_stub_entry(efi_handle_t handle,
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_EFI_HANDOVER_PROTOCOL
+void efi_handover_entry(efi_handle_t handle, efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg,
+			struct boot_params *boot_params)
+{
+	extern char _bss[], _ebss[];
+
+	memset(_bss, 0, _ebss - _bss);
+	efi_stub_entry(handle, sys_table_arg, boot_params);
+}
+
 #ifndef CONFIG_EFI_MIXED
-extern __alias(efi_stub_entry)
+extern __alias(efi_handover_entry)
 void efi32_stub_entry(efi_handle_t handle, efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg,
 		      struct boot_params *boot_params);
 
-extern __alias(efi_stub_entry)
+extern __alias(efi_handover_entry)
 void efi64_stub_entry(efi_handle_t handle, efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg,
 		      struct boot_params *boot_params);
 #endif
-- 
2.39.2
[tip: x86/boot] x86/efistub: Clear BSS in EFI handover protocol entrypoint
Posted by tip-bot2 for Ard Biesheuvel 2 years, 1 month ago
The following commit has been merged into the x86/boot branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     d7156b986d4cc0657fa6dc05c9fcf51c3d55a0fe
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/d7156b986d4cc0657fa6dc05c9fcf51c3d55a0fe
Author:        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
AuthorDate:    Mon, 07 Aug 2023 18:27:03 +02:00
Committer:     Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
CommitterDate: Mon, 07 Aug 2023 20:40:36 +02:00

x86/efistub: Clear BSS in EFI handover protocol entrypoint

The so-called EFI handover protocol is value-add from the distros that
permits a loader to simply copy a PE kernel image into memory and call
an alternative entrypoint that is described by an embedded boot_params
structure.

Most implementations of this protocol do not bother to check the PE
header for minimum alignment, section placement, etc, and therefore also
don't clear the image's BSS, or even allocate enough memory for it.

Allocating more memory on the fly is rather difficult, but at least
clear the BSS region explicitly when entering in this manner, so that
the EFI stub code does not get confused by global variables that were
not zero-initialized correctly.

When booting in mixed mode, this BSS clearing must occur before any
global state is created, so clear it in the 32-bit asm entry point.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230807162720.545787-7-ardb@kernel.org
---
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi_mixed.S    | 14 +++++++++++++-
 drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c | 13 +++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi_mixed.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi_mixed.S
index 9308b59..8a02a15 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi_mixed.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi_mixed.S
@@ -142,6 +142,18 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(__efi64_thunk)
 	.code32
 #ifdef CONFIG_EFI_HANDOVER_PROTOCOL
 SYM_FUNC_START(efi32_stub_entry)
+	call	1f
+1:	popl	%ecx
+
+	/* Clear BSS */
+	xorl	%eax, %eax
+	leal	(_bss - 1b)(%ecx), %edi
+	leal	(_ebss - 1b)(%ecx), %ecx
+	subl	%edi, %ecx
+	shrl	$2, %ecx
+	cld
+	rep	stosl
+
 	add	$0x4, %esp		/* Discard return address */
 	popl	%ecx
 	popl	%edx
@@ -334,7 +346,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(efi32_pe_entry)
 	.org	efi32_stub_entry + 0x200
 	.code64
 SYM_FUNC_START_NOALIGN(efi64_stub_entry)
-	jmp	efi_stub_entry
+	jmp	efi_handover_entry
 SYM_FUNC_END(efi64_stub_entry)
 #endif
 
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c
index 3f3b3ed..9247dbc 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c
@@ -970,12 +970,21 @@ fail:
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_EFI_HANDOVER_PROTOCOL
+void efi_handover_entry(efi_handle_t handle, efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg,
+			struct boot_params *boot_params)
+{
+	extern char _bss[], _ebss[];
+
+	memset(_bss, 0, _ebss - _bss);
+	efi_stub_entry(handle, sys_table_arg, boot_params);
+}
+
 #ifndef CONFIG_EFI_MIXED
-extern __alias(efi_stub_entry)
+extern __alias(efi_handover_entry)
 void efi32_stub_entry(efi_handle_t handle, efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg,
 		      struct boot_params *boot_params);
 
-extern __alias(efi_stub_entry)
+extern __alias(efi_handover_entry)
 void efi64_stub_entry(efi_handle_t handle, efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg,
 		      struct boot_params *boot_params);
 #endif