Re: [PATCH 2/2] efi: Add embedded peripheral firmware support

From: Hans de Goede
Date: Thu Apr 05 2018 - 07:51:37 EST


Hi,

On 03-04-18 21:53, Peter Jones wrote:
On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 02:19:44PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
index fddc5f706fd2..1a5ea950f58f 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
@@ -455,6 +455,7 @@ int __init efi_mem_desc_lookup(u64 phys_addr, efi_memory_desc_t *out_md)
u64 end;
if (!(md->attribute & EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME) &&
+ md->type != EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE &&
md->type != EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA &&
md->type != EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_DATA) {
continue;

Might be worth adding a comment here to ensure nobody comes along later
and adds something like EFI_BOOT_LOADER_DATA or other stuff that's
allocated later here. I don't want to accidentally patch our way into
having the ability to stumble across a firmware blob somebody dumped
into the middle of a grub config file, especially since you only need to
collide crc32 (within the same length) to pre-alias a match.

As discussed elsewhere in the thread, I'm going to switch to doing a
kmemdup on the found firmware, so this chunk will go away :)


...
+static int __init efi_check_md_for_embedded_firmware(
+ efi_memory_desc_t *md, const struct embedded_fw_desc *desc)
+{
...
+ if (found_fw_count >= MAX_EMBEDDED_FIRMWARES) {
+ pr_err("Error already have %d embedded firmwares\n",
+ MAX_EMBEDDED_FIRMWARES);
+ return -ENOSPC;
+ }

Doesn't seem like this needs to be pr_err(); after all we have already
found a valid match, so the firmware vendor has done something
moderately stupid, but we have a firmware that will probably work. Of
course it still needs to return != 0, but pr_warn() or even pr_info()
seems more reasonable.

We break from the search loop as soon as a firmware is found, this can
only trigger if someone adds a second firmware to the dmi data and then
does not update MAX_EMBEDDED_FIRMWARES...

But mcgrof wants me to switch to a linked list here, so this is going
away too.

Aside from those nits, looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, but v2 is going to have so much changes that I don't feel
comfortable bringing this forward to v2.

Regards,

Hans