UEFI implements VLAN support within the Managed Network Protocol (MNP)
driver, which may create child VLAN devices automatically based on
stored UEFI variables. These child devices do not themselves provide
a raw-packet interface via EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK_PROTOCOL, and may be
consumed only via the EFI_MANAGED_NETWORK_PROTOCOL interface.
The device paths constructed for these child devices may conflict with
those for the EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK_PROTOCOL instances that iPXE attempts
to install for its own VLAN devices. The upshot is that creating an
iPXE VLAN device (e.g. via the "vcreate" command) will fail if the
UEFI Managed Network Protocol has already created a device for the
same VLAN tag.
Fix by providing our own EFI_VLAN_CONFIG_PROTOCOL instance on the same
device handle as EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK_PROTOCOL. This causes the MNP
driver to treat iPXE's device as supporting hardware VLAN offload, and
it will therefore not attempt to install its own instance of the
protocol.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The UEFI specification allows uninstallation of a protocol interface
to fail. There is no sensible way for code to react to this, since
uninstallation is likely to be taking place on a code path that cannot
itself fail (e.g. a code path that is itself a failure path).
Where the protocol structure exists within a dynamically allocated
block of memory, this leads to possible use-after-free bugs. Work
around this unfortunate design choice by nullifying the protocol
(i.e. overwriting the method pointers with no-ops) and leaking the
memory containing the protocol structure.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown