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efi/libstub/x86: use ULONG_MAX as upper bound for all allocations

PATCH New Ard Biesheuvel 1 participant 1 message Mar 3, 2020 EFI

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PATCH 1/1 efi/libstub/x86: use ULONG_MAX as upper bound for all allocations

The header flag XLF_CAN_BE_LOADED_ABOVE_4G will inform us whether allocations above 4 GiB for kernel, command line, etc are permitted, so we take it into account when calling efi_allocate_pages() etc.

However, CONFIG_EFI_STUB implies CONFIG_RELOCATABLE, and so the flag is guaranteed to be set on x86_64 builds, whereas i386 builds are guaranteed to run under firmware that will not allocate above 4 GB in the first place.

So drop the check, and just pass ULONG_MAX as the upper bound for all allocations.

Signed-off-by Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c | 17 ++++-------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-stub.c +4 -13
index c774b97c9820..e4817579d96b 100644
@@ -375,7 +375,6 @@ efi_status_t __efiapi efi_pe_entry(efi_handle_t handle,
 	char *cmdline_ptr;
 	unsigned long ramdisk_addr;
 	unsigned long ramdisk_size;
-	bool above4g;
 
 	sys_table = sys_table_arg;
 

@@ -393,10 +392,8 @@ efi_status_t __efiapi efi_pe_entry(efi_handle_t handle,
 	image_offset = (void *)startup_32 - image_base;
 
 	hdr = &((struct boot_params *)image_base)->hdr;
-	above4g = hdr->xloadflags & XLF_CAN_BE_LOADED_ABOVE_4G;
 
-	status = efi_allocate_pages(0x4000, (unsigned long *)&boot_params,
-				    above4g ? ULONG_MAX : UINT_MAX);
+	status = efi_allocate_pages(0x4000, (unsigned long *)&boot_params, ULONG_MAX);
 	if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) {
 		efi_printk("Failed to allocate lowmem for boot params\n");
 		efi_exit(handle, status);

@@ -420,8 +417,7 @@ efi_status_t __efiapi efi_pe_entry(efi_handle_t handle,
 	hdr->type_of_loader = 0x21;
 
 	/* Convert unicode cmdline to ascii */
-	cmdline_ptr = efi_convert_cmdline(image, &options_size,
-					  above4g ? ULONG_MAX : UINT_MAX);
+	cmdline_ptr = efi_convert_cmdline(image, &options_size, ULONG_MAX);
 	if (!cmdline_ptr)
 		goto fail;
 

@@ -441,8 +437,7 @@ efi_status_t __efiapi efi_pe_entry(efi_handle_t handle,
 			status = efi_load_initrd(image, &ramdisk_addr,
 						 &ramdisk_size,
 						 hdr->initrd_addr_max,
-						 above4g ? ULONG_MAX
-							 : hdr->initrd_addr_max);
+						 ULONG_MAX);
 			if (status != EFI_SUCCESS)
 				goto fail2;
 			hdr->ramdisk_image = ramdisk_addr & 0xffffffff;

@@ -794,12 +789,8 @@ unsigned long efi_main(efi_handle_t handle,
 	 */
 	if (!noinitrd()) {
 		unsigned long addr, size;
-		unsigned long max_addr = hdr->initrd_addr_max;
 
-		if (hdr->xloadflags & XLF_CAN_BE_LOADED_ABOVE_4G)
-			max_addr = ULONG_MAX;
-
-		status = efi_load_initrd_dev_path(&addr, &size, max_addr);
+		status = efi_load_initrd_dev_path(&addr, &size, ULONG_MAX);
 		if (status == EFI_SUCCESS) {
 			hdr->ramdisk_image		= (u32)addr;
 			hdr->ramdisk_size 		= (u32)size;
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