linux/arch/arm64/include
Ard Biesheuvel de2af657ca arm64: efi: Execute runtime services from a dedicated stack
commit ff7a167961 upstream.

With the introduction of PRMT in the ACPI subsystem, the EFI rts
workqueue is no longer the only caller of efi_call_virt_pointer() in the
kernel. This means the EFI runtime services lock is no longer sufficient
to manage concurrent calls into firmware, but also that firmware calls
may occur that are not marshalled via the workqueue mechanism, but
originate directly from the caller context.

For added robustness, and to ensure that the runtime services have 8 KiB
of stack space available as per the EFI spec, introduce a spinlock
protected EFI runtime stack of 8 KiB, where the spinlock also ensures
serialization between the EFI rts workqueue (which itself serializes EFI
runtime calls) and other callers of efi_call_virt_pointer().

While at it, use the stack pivot to avoid reloading the shadow call
stack pointer from the ordinary stack, as doing so could produce a
gadget to defeat it.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-01-24 07:22:48 +01:00
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asm arm64: efi: Execute runtime services from a dedicated stack 2023-01-24 07:22:48 +01:00
uapi/asm