UEFI UNDI is a hideously ugly lump of poorly specified garbage bolted
on as an appendix of the UEFI specification. My personal favourite
line from the UNDI 'specification' is section E.2.2, which states
"Basically, the rule is: Do it right, or don't do it at all". The
author appears to believe that such exhortations are a viable
substitute for documenting what it is that the wretched reader is
supposed to, in fact, do.
(Second favourite is the section listing the pros and cons of various
driver types. This fails to identify a single con for the mythical
"Hardware UNDI", a design so insanely intrinsically slow that it
appears to have been the inspiration for the EFI_USB_IO_PROTOCOL.)
UNDI is functionally isomorphic to the substantially less preposterous
EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK_PROTOCOL. Provide an UNDI interface (as a thin
wrapper around the existing SNP interface) to allow for use by
third-party software that has made poor life choices.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Calling EDK2's OpenProtocol() with attributes BY_DRIVER|EXCLUSIVE will
call DisconnectController() in a loop to attempt to dislodge any
existing openers with attributes BY_DRIVER. The loop will continue
indefinitely until either no such openers remain, or until
DisconnectController() returns an error.
If our driver binding protocol's Stop() method is ever called to
disconnect a device that we are not in fact driving, then return
EFI_DEVICE_ERROR rather than EFI_SUCCESS, in order to break this
potentially infinite loop.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Allow the UEFI platform firmware to provide drivers for unrecognised
devices, by exposing our own implementation of EFI_USB_IO_PROTOCOL.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Many UEFI NBPs expect to find an EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL installed
in addition to the EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK_PROTOCOL. Most NBPs use the
EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL only to retrieve the cached DHCP packets.
This implementation has been tested with grub.efi, shim.efi,
syslinux.efi, and wdsmgfw.efi. Some methods (such as Discover() and
Arp()) are not used by any known NBP and so have not (yet) been
implemented.
Usage notes for the tested bootstraps are:
- grub.efi uses EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL only to retrieve the
cached DHCP packet, and uses no other methods.
- shim.efi uses EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL to retrieve the cached
DHCP packet and to retrieve the next NBP via the Mtftp() method.
If shim.efi was downloaded via HTTP (or other non-TFTP protocol)
then shim.efi will blindly call Mtftp() with an HTTP URI as the
filename: this allows the next NBP (e.g. grubx64.efi) to also be
transparently retrieved by HTTP.
shim.efi can also use the EFI_SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM_PROTOCOL to
retrieve files previously loaded by "imgfetch" or similar commands
in iPXE. The current implementation of shim.efi will use the
EFI_SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM_PROTOCOL only if it does not find an
EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL; this patch therefore prevents this
usage of our EFI_SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM_PROTOCOL. This logic could be
trivially reversed in shim.efi if needed.
- syslinux.efi uses EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL only to retrieve the
cached DHCP packet. Versions 6.03 and earlier have a bug which
may cause syslinux.efi to attach to the wrong NIC if there are
multiple NICs in the system (or if the UEFI firmware supports
IPv6).
- wdsmgfw.efi (ab)uses EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL to retrieve the
cached DHCP packets, and to send and retrieve UDP packets via the
UdpWrite() and UdpRead() methods. (This was presumably done in
order to minimise the amount of benefit obtainable by switching to
UEFI, by replicating all of the design mistakes present in the
original PXE specification.)
The EFI_DOWNGRADE_UX configuration option remains available for now,
until this implementation has received more widespread testing.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Our SNP ReceiveFilters() method is a no-op, since we always (if
possible) use promiscuous mode for all network cards. The method
currently returns EFI_NOT_READY if the SNP interfaces are claimed for
use by iPXE, as with all other SNP methods.
The WDS bootstrap wdsmgfw.efi attempts to use both the PXE Base Code
protocol and the Simple Network Protocol simultaneously. This is
fundamentally broken, since use of the PXE Base Code protocol requires
us to disable the use of SNP (by claiming the interfaces for use by
iPXE), otherwise MnpDxe swallows all of the received packets before
our PXE Base Code's UdpRead() method is able to return them.
The root cause of this problem is that, as with BIOS PXE, the network
booting portions of the UEFI specification are less of a specification
and more of an application note sketchily describing how the original
hacked-together Intel implementation works. No sane design would ever
have included the UdpWrite() and UdpRead() methods.
Work around these fundamental conceptual flaws by unconditionally
returning success from efi_snp_receive_filters().
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add definitions of protocols observed to be used by wdsmgfw.efi, and
add a handle name type for ConIn, ConOut, and StdErr.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add debug wrappers for more boot services functions, and print
symbolic values rather than raw numbers where possible.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The raw EFI_HANDLE value is almost never useful to know, and simply
adds noise to the already verbose debug messages. Improve the
legibility of debug messages by using only the name generated by
efi_handle_name().
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Allow the return status from an embedded image to propagate out to the
eventual return status from main(). When running under Linux, this
allows the pass/fail result of unit tests to be observable without
having to visually inspect the console output.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
UEFI platforms may provide a watchdog timer, which will reboot the
machine if an operating system takes more than five minutes to load.
This can cause long-lived iPXE downloads (or interactive shell
sessions) to unexpectedly reboot.
Fix by resetting the watchdog timer every ten seconds while the iPXE
main processing loop continues to run.
Reported-by: Bradley B Williams <bradleybwilliams@swbell.net>
Reported-by: John Clark <john.r.clark.3@gmail.com>
Reported-by: wdriever@gmail.com
Reported-by: Charlie Beima <cbeima@indiana.edu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
iPXE does not currently provide EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL: this
causes failures when chainloading bootloaders such as shim.efi which
assume that this protocol will be present.
Provide the ability to work around these problems via the build
configuration option EFI_DOWNGRADE_UX. If this option is enabled,
then we will not install our usual EFI_LOAD_FILE_PROTOCOL
implementation, thereby allowing the platform firmware to install its
own EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL implementation on top of our
EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK_PROTOCOL handle.
A somewhat major side-effect of this workaround is that almost all
iPXE features will be disabled.
This configuration option will be removed in future when support for
EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL is added.
Requested-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Requested-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Fix the TxBuf value filled in by GetStatus() to report the transmit
buffer address as required by the (now clarified) specification.
Simplify "interrupt" handling in GetStatus() to report only that one
or more packets have been transmitted or received; there is no need to
report one GetStatus() "interrupt" per packet.
Simplify receive handling to dequeue received packets immediately from
the network device into an internal list (thereby avoiding the hacks
previously used to determine when to report new packet arrivals).
Originally-fixed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Older, out-of-tree Xen kernel modules (such as those provided with
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11) do not clear the leftover "event
pending" bit when opening an event channel. Consequently, no event is
ever delivered to indicate that there is information in the XenStore
ring buffer, and the system hangs shortly after loading the
xen-platform-pci kernel module.
Work around this problem by always waiting for the XenStore event
channel to be signalled, and clearing the event before processing the
received data.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The current API for Base16 (and Base64) encoding requires the caller
to always provide sufficient buffer space. This prevents the use of
the generic encoding/decoding functionality in some situations, such
as in formatting the hex setting types.
Implement a generic hex_encode() (based on the existing
format_hex_setting()), implement base16_encode() and base16_decode()
in terms of the more generic hex_encode() and hex_decode(), and update
all callers to provide the additional buffer length parameter.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Rewrite (and relicense) the header files which are included in all
builds of iPXE (including non-Linux builds).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
These files cannot be automatically relicensed by util/relicense.pl
since they either contain unusual but trivial contributions (such as
the addition of __nonnull function attributes), or contain lines
dating back to the initial git revision (and so require manual
knowledge of the code's origin).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Relicence files with kind permission from the following contributors:
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Greg Jednaszewski <jednaszewski@gmail.com>
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Marin Hannache <git@mareo.fr>
Robin Smidsrød <robin@smidsrod.no>
Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com>
Thomas Horsten <thomas@horsten.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
We require the ability to disconnect from and reconnect to VMBus; if
we don't have this then there is no (viable) way for a loaded
operating system to continue to use any VMBus devices. (There is also
a small but non-zero risk that the host will continue to write to our
interrupt and monitor pages, since the VMBUS_UNLOAD message in earlier
versions is essentially a no-op.)
This requires us to ensure that the host supports protocol version 3.0
(VMBUS_VERSION_WIN8_1). However, we can't actually _use_ protocol
version 3.0, since doing so causes an iSCSI-booted Windows Server 2012
R2 VM to crash due to a NULL pointer dereference in vmbus.sys.
To work around this problem, we first ensure that we can connect using
protocol v3.0, then disconnect and reconnect using the oldest known
protocol.
This deliberately prevents the use of the iPXE native Hyper-V drivers
on older versions of Hyper-V, where we could use our drivers but in so
doing would break the loaded operating system.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The (undocumented) VMBus protocol seems to allow for transfer
page-based packets where the data payload is split into an arbitrary
set of ranges within the transfer page set.
The RNDIS protocol includes a length field within the header of each
message, and it is known from observation that multiple RNDIS messages
can be concatenated into a single VMBus message.
iPXE currently assumes that the transfer page range boundaries are
entirely arbitrary, and uses the RNDIS header length to determine the
RNDIS message boundaries.
Windows Server 2012 R2 generates an RNDIS_INDICATE_STATUS_MSG for an
undocumented and unknown status code (0x40020006) with a malformed
RNDIS header length: the length does not cover the StatusBuffer
portion of the message. This causes iPXE to report a malformed RNDIS
message and to discard any further RNDIS messages within the same
VMBus message.
The Linux Hyper-V driver assumes that the transfer page range
boundaries correspond to RNDIS message boundaries, and so does not
notice the malformed length field in the RNDIS header.
Match the behaviour of the Linux Hyper-V driver: assume that the
transfer page range boundaries correspond to the RNDIS message
boundaries and ignore the RNDIS header length. This avoids triggering
the "malformed packet" error and also avoids unnecessary data copying:
since we now have one I/O buffer per RNDIS message, there is no longer
any need to use iob_split().
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some UEFI systems (observed with a Hyper-V virtual machine) do not
provide EFI_PCI_ROOT_BRIDGE_IO_PROTOCOL. Make this an optional
protocol (and fail any attempts to access PCI configuration space via
the root bridge if the protocol is missing).
Reported-by: Colin Blacker <Colin.Blacker@computerplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Propagate our modified EFI system table to any images loaded by the
image that we wrap, thereby allowing us to observe boot services calls
made by all subsequent EFI images.
Also show details of intercepted ExitBootServices() calls. When
wrapping is used, exiting boot services will almost certainly fail,
but this at least allows us to see when it happens.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Under some circumstances (e.g. if iPXE itself is booted via iSCSI, or
after an unclean reboot), the backend may not be in the expected
InitWait state when iPXE starts up.
There is no generic reset mechanism for Xenbus devices. Recent
versions of xen-netback will gracefully perform all of the required
steps if the frontend sets its state to Initialising. Older versions
(such as that found in XenServer 6.2.0) require the frontend to
transition through Closed before reaching Initialising.
Add a reset mechanism for netfront devices which does the following:
- read current backend state
- if backend state is anything other than InitWait, then set the
frontend state to Closed and wait for the backend to also reach
Closed
- set the frontend state to Initialising and wait for the backend to
reach InitWait.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Using version 1 grant tables limits guests to using 16TB of grantable
RAM, and prevents the use of subpage grants. Some versions of the Xen
hypervisor refuse to allow the grant table version to be set after the
first grant references have been created, so the loaded operating
system may be stuck with whatever choice we make here. We therefore
currently use version 2 grant tables, since they give the most
flexibility to the loaded OS.
Current versions (7.2.0) of the Windows PV drivers have no support for
version 2 grant tables, and will merrily create version 1 entries in
what the hypervisor believes to be a version 2 table. This causes
some confusion.
Avoid this problem by attempting to use version 1 tables, since
otherwise we may render Windows unable to boot.
Play nicely with other potential bootloaders by accepting either
version 1 or version 2 grant tables (if we are unable to set our
requested version).
Note that the use of version 1 tables on a 64-bit system introduces a
possible failure path in which a frame number cannot fit into the
32-bit field within the v1 structure. This in turn introduces
additional failure paths into netfront_transmit() and
netfront_refill_rx().
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some EFI 1.10 systems (observed on an Apple iMac) do not allow us to
open the device path protocol with an attribute of
EFI_OPEN_PROTOCOL_BY_DRIVER and so we cannot maintain a safe,
long-lived pointer to the device path. Work around this by instead
opening the device path protocol with an attribute of
EFI_OPEN_PROTOCOL_GET_PROTOCOL whenever we need to use it.
Debugged-by: Curtis Larsen <larsen@dixie.edu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The ComponentName and ComponentName2 protocols differ only in the
standard which is used for language name codes.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Try very hard to avoid ever doing something invalid while attempting
to generate a debug message.
Debugged-by: Curtis Larsen <larsen@dixie.edu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Dump the existing openers of a protocol whenever we are unable to open
a protocol using attributes of BY_DEVICE, EXCLUSIVE, or
BY_CHILD_CONTROLLER.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
efi_file_install() and efi_download_install() are both used to install
onto existing handles. There is therefore no need to allow for each
of their calls to InstallMultipleProtocolInterfaces() to create a new
handle.
By passing the handle directly (rather than a pointer to the handle),
we avoid potential confusion (and erroneous debug message colours).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Using efi_devpath_text() is marginally more efficient if we already
have the device path protocol available, but the mild increase in
efficiency is not worth compromising the clarity of the pattern:
DBGC ( device, "THING %p %s ...", device, efi_handle_name ( device ) );
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Provide a function efi_handle_name() (as a generalisation of
efi_handle_devpath_text()) which tries various methods to produce a
human-readable name for an EFI handle.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
HII seems to fail on several systems. Since it is non-essential,
treat HII problems as non-fatal.
Debugged-by: Curtis Larsen <larsen@dixie.edu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
We currently treat network devices as available for use via the SNP
API only if RX queue processing has been frozen. (This is similar in
spirit to the way that RX queue processing is frozen for the network
device currently exposed via the PXE API.)
The default state of a freshly created network device is for the RX
queue to not be frozen, and thus to be unavailable for use via SNP.
This causes problems when devices are added through code paths other
than _efidrv_start() (which explicitly releases devices for use via
SNP).
We don't actually need to freeze RX queue processing, since calls via
the SNP API will always use netdev_poll() rather than net_poll(), and
so will never trigger the RX queue processing code path anyway.
We can therefore simplify the code to use a single global flag to
indicate whether network devices are claimed for use by iPXE or
available for use via SNP. Using a global flag allows the default
state for dynamically created network devices to behave sensibly.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add basic support for Xen PV-HVM domains (detected via the Xen
platform PCI device with IDs 5853:0001), including support for
accessing configuration via XenStore and enumerating devices via
XenBus.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
On some older EFI 1.10 implementations (observed with an old iMac), we
must use the (now obsolete) EFI_CONSOLE_CONTROL_PROTOCOL to switch the
console into text mode.
Modified-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
When building with DEBUG=efi_wrap, print details of calls made by the
loaded image to selected boot services functions.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The EFI FAT filesystem driver has a bug: if a block device contains no
FAT filesystem but does have an EFI_SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM_PROTOCOL
instance, the FAT driver will assume that it must have previously
installed the EFI_SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM_PROTOCOL. This causes the FAT
driver to claim control of our device, and to refuse to stop driving
it, which prevents us from later uninstalling correctly.
Work around this bug by opening the disk I/O protocol ourselves,
thereby preventing the FAT driver from opening it.
Note that the alternative approach of opening the block I/O protocol
(and thereby in theory preventing DiskIo from attaching to the block
I/O protocol) causes an endless loop of calls to our DRIVER_STOP
method when starting the EFI shell. I have no idea why this is.
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>
Expose the build timestamp (measured in seconds since the Epoch) and
the build name (e.g. "rtl8139.rom" or "ipxe.efi"), and provide the
product name and product short name in a single centralised location.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
With blade servers, the chassis serial number (exposed via ${serial})
may not be unique. Expose ${board-serial} as a named setting to
provide easy access to a more meaningful serial number.
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>
Some UEFI systems (observed with a Mac Pro) do not provide
EFI_HII_DATABASE_PROTOCOL. We can continue to function without
providing access to network device settings via HII, so make this
protocol optional and fall back to simply not providing any HII
protocols.
Reported-by: Matt Woodward <pxematt@woodwardcc.com>
Tested-by: Matt Woodward <pxematt@woodwardcc.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some UEFI systems (observed with a Mac Pro) do not provide
EFI_DEVICE_PATH_TO_TEXT_PROTOCOL. Since we use this protocol only for
debug messages, make it optional and fall back to printing the raw
device path bytes.
Reported-by: Matt Woodward <pxematt@woodwardcc.com>
Tested-by: Matt Woodward <pxematt@woodwardcc.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some UEFI builds will set up a timer to continuously poll any SNP
devices. This can drain packets from the network device's receive
queue before iPXE gets a chance to process them.
Use netdev_rx_[un]freeze() to explicitly indicate when we expect our
network devices to be driven via the external SNP API (as we do with
the UNDI API on the standard BIOS build), and disable the SNP API
except when receive queue processing is frozen.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
iPXE uses currticks() (along with the MAC address(es) of any network
devices) to seed the (non-cryptographic) random number generator. The
current implementation of linux_currticks() ensures that the first
call to currticks() will always return zero; this results in identical
random number sequences on each run of iPXE on a given machine. This
can cause odd-looking behaviour due to e.g. the reuse of local TCP
port numbers.
Fix by effectively rounding down the start time recorded by
linux_currticks() to the nearest whole second; this makes it unlikely
that consecutive runs of iPXE will use the exact same RNG sequence.
(Note that none of this affects the cryptographic RNG, which uses
/dev/random as a source of entropy.)
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Allow for multiple setting definitions with the same name but
different scopes and tags. For example, allow for a "filename"
setting with default scope and tag value 67 (for DHCPv4) and a
corresponding "filename" setting with IPv6 scope and tag value 59 (for
DHCPv6).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The fetch_setting() family of functions may currently modify the
definition of the specified setting (e.g. to add missing type
information). Clean up this interface by requiring callers to provide
an explicit buffer to contain the completed definition of the fetched
setting, if required.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown
Curtis Larsen
Dale Hamel