On some systems (observed with the Thunderbolt ports on a ThinkPad X1
Extreme Gen3 and a ThinkPad P53), if the IOMMU is enabled then the
system firmware will install an ExitBootServices notification event
that disables bus mastering on the Thunderbolt xHCI controller and all
PCI bridges, and destroys any extant IOMMU mappings. This leaves the
xHCI controller unable to perform any DMA operations.
As described in commit 236299b ("[xhci] Avoid DMA during shutdown if
firmware has disabled bus mastering"), any subsequent DMA operation
attempted by the xHCI controller will end up completing after the
operating system kernel has reenabled bus mastering, resulting in a
DMA operation to an area of memory that the hardware is no longer
permitted to access and, on Windows with the Driver Verifier enabled,
a STOP 0xE6 (DRIVER_VERIFIER_DMA_VIOLATION).
That commit avoids triggering any DMA attempts during the shutdown of
the xHCI controller itself. However, this is not a complete solution
since any attached and opened USB device (e.g. a USB NIC) may
asynchronously trigger DMA attempts that happen to occur after bus
mastering has been disabled but before we reset the xHCI controller.
Avoid this problem by installing our own ExitBootServices notification
event at TPL_NOTIFY, thereby causing it to be invoked before the
firmware's own ExitBootServices notification event that disables bus
mastering.
This unsurprisingly causes the shutdown hook itself to be invoked at
TPL_NOTIFY, which causes a fatal error when later code attempts to
raise the TPL to TPL_CALLBACK (which is a lower TPL). Work around
this problem by redefining the "internal" iPXE TPL to be variable, and
set this internal TPL to TPL_NOTIFY when the shutdown hook is invoked.
Avoid calling into an underlying SNP protocol instance from within our
shutdown hook at TPL_NOTIFY, since the underlying SNP driver may
attempt to raise the TPL to TPL_CALLBACK (which would cause a fatal
error). Failing to shut down the underlying SNP device is safe to do
since the underlying device must, in any case, have installed its own
ExitBootServices hook if any shutdown actions are required.
Reported-by: Andreas Hammarskjöld <junior@2PintSoftware.com>
Tested-by: Andreas Hammarskjöld <junior@2PintSoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The efi_unload() function is currently missing the calls to raise and
restore the TPL. This has the side effect of causing iPXE to return
from the driver unload entry point at TPL_CALLBACK, which will cause
unexpected behaviour (typically a system lockup) shortly afterwards.
Fix by adding the missing calls to raise and restore the TPL.
Debugged-by: Petr Borsodi <petr.borsodi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
iPXE will currently drop to TPL_APPLICATION whenever the current
system time is obtained via currticks(), since the system time
mechanism relies on a timer that can fire only when the TPL is below
TPL_CALLBACK.
This can cause unexpected behaviour if the system time is obtained in
the middle of an API call into iPXE by external code. For example,
MnpDxe sets up a 10ms periodic timer running at TPL_CALLBACK to poll
the underling EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK_PROTOCOL device for received packets.
If the resulting poll within iPXE happens to hit a code path that
requires obtaining the current system time (e.g. due to reception of
an STP packet, which affects iPXE's blocked link timer), then iPXE
will end up temporarily dropping to TPL_APPLICATION. This can
potentially result in retriggering the MnpDxe periodic timer, causing
code to be unexpectedly re-entered.
Fix by recording the external TPL at any entry point into iPXE and
dropping only as far as this external TPL, rather than dropping
unconditionally to TPL_APPLICATION.
The side effect of this change is that iPXE's view of the current
system time will be frozen for the duration of any API calls made into
iPXE by external code at TPL_CALLBACK or above. Since any such
external code is already responsible for allowing execution at
TPL_APPLICATION to occur, then this should not cause a problem in
practice.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The file:/ URI syntax may be used to refer to local files on the
filesystem from which the iPXE binary was loaded. This is currently
implemented by directly using the DeviceHandle recorded in our
EFI_LOADED_IMAGE_PROTOCOL.
This mechanism will fail when a USB-enabled build of iPXE is loaded
from USB storage and subsequently installs its own USB host controller
drivers, since doing so will disconnect and reconnect the existing USB
storage drivers and thereby invalidate the original storage device
handle.
Fix by recording the device path for the loaded image's DeviceHandle
at initialisation time and later using the recorded device path to
locate the appropriate device handle.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The NUL byte included within the stack cookie to act as a string
terminator should be placed at the lowest byte address within the
stack cookie, in order to avoid potentially including the stack cookie
value within an accidentally unterminated string.
Suggested-by: Pete Beck <pete.beck@ioactive.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Several of the values used to compute a stack cookie (in the absence
of a viable entropy source) will tend to have either all-zeroes or
all-ones in the higher order bits. Rotate the values in order to
distribute the (minimal) available entropy more evenly.
Suggested-by: Pete Beck <pete.beck@ioactive.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Enable -fstack-protector for EFI builds, where binary size is less
critical than for BIOS builds.
The stack cookie must be constructed immediately on entry, which
prohibits the use of any viable entropy source. Construct a cookie by
XORing together various mildly random quantities to produce a value
that will at least not be identical on each run.
On detecting a stack corruption, attempt to call Exit() with an
appropriate error. If that fails, then lock up the machine since
there is no other safe action that can be taken.
The old conditional check for support of -fno-stack-protector is
omitted since this flag dates back to GCC 4.1.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Ensure that efi_systab is an undefined symbol in non-EFI builds. In
particular, this prevents users from incorrectly enabling IMAGE_EFI in
a BIOS build of iPXE.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
EFI provides no clean way for device drivers to shut down in
preparation for handover to a booted operating system. The platform
firmware simply doesn't bother to call the drivers' Stop() methods.
Instead, drivers must register an EVT_SIGNAL_EXIT_BOOT_SERVICES event
to be signalled when ExitBootServices() is called, and clean up
without any reference to the EFI driver model.
Unfortunately, all timers silently stop working when ExitBootServices()
is called. Even more unfortunately, and for no discernible reason,
this happens before any EVT_SIGNAL_EXIT_BOOT_SERVICES events are
signalled. The net effect of this entertaining design choice is that
any timeout loops on the shutdown path (e.g. for gracefully closing
outstanding TCP connections) may wait indefinitely.
There is no way to report failure from currticks(), since the API
lazily assumes that the host system continues to travel through time
in the usual direction. Work around EFI's violation of this
assumption by falling back to a simple free-running monotonic counter.
Debugged-by: Maor Dickman <maord@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Provide a single instance of EFI_DRIVER_BINDING_PROTOCOL (attached to
our image handle); this matches the expectations scattered throughout
the EFI specification.
Open the underlying hardware device using EFI_OPEN_PROTOCOL_BY_DRIVER
and EFI_OPEN_PROTOCOL_EXCLUSIVE, to prevent other drivers from
attaching to the same device.
Do not automatically connect to devices when being loaded as a driver;
leave this task to the platform firmware (or to the user, if loading
directly from the EFI shell).
When running as an application, forcibly disconnect any existing
drivers from devices that we want to control, and reconnect them on
exit.
Provide a meaningful driver version number (based on the build
timestamp), to allow platform firmware to automatically load newer
versions of iPXE drivers if multiple drivers are present.
Include device paths within debug messages where possible, to aid in
debugging.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some UEFI systems (observed with a Mac Pro) do not provide a loaded
image device path protocol. We don't currently use the loaded image
device path protocol for anything beyond printing a debug message, so
simply remove the code which attempts to fetch it.
Reported-by: Matt Woodward <pxematt@woodwardcc.com>
Tested-by: Matt Woodward <pxematt@woodwardcc.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Exploit the redefinition of iPXE error codes to include a "platform
error code" to allow for meaningful conversion of EFI_STATUS values to
iPXE errors and vice versa.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add a new network driver that consumes the EFI Simple Network
Protocol. Also add a bus driver that can find the Simple Network
Protocol that iPXE was loaded from; the resulting behavior is similar
to the "undionly" driver for BIOS systems.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Access to the gpxe.org and etherboot.org domains and associated
resources has been revoked by the registrant of the domain. Work
around this problem by renaming project from gPXE to iPXE, and
updating URLs to match.
Also update README, LOG and COPYRIGHTS to remove obsolete information.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Intel's C compiler (icc) chokes on the zero-length arrays that we
currently use as part of the mechanism for accessing linker table
entries. Abstract away the zero-length arrays, to make a port to icc
easier.
Introduce macros such as for_each_table_entry() to simplify the common
case of iterating over all entries in a linker table.
Represent table names as #defined string constants rather than
unquoted literals; this avoids visual confusion between table names
and C variable or type names, and also allows us to force a
compilation error in the event of incorrect table names.
elf2efi converts a suitable ELF executable (containing relocation
information, and with appropriate virtual addresses) into an EFI
executable. It is less tightly coupled with the gPXE build process
and, in particular, does not require the use of a hand-crafted PE
image header in efiprefix.S.
elf2efi correctly handles .bss sections, which significantly reduces
the size of the gPXE EFI executable.
Michael Brown
Geoff Lywood
Michael Brown