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<title>kernel/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c, branch linux-6.9.y</title>
<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.</subtitle>
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<updated>2024-03-07T22:05:09Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>firmware_loader: Suppress warning on FW_OPT_NO_WARN flag</title>
<updated>2024-03-07T22:05:09Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mukesh Ojha</name>
<email>quic_mojha@quicinc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-19T16:39:54Z</published>
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Some of the warnings are still being printed even if FW_OPT_NO_WARN
is passed for some of the function e.g., firmware_request_nowarn().
Fix it by adding a check for FW_OPT_NO_WARN before printing the warning.

Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha &lt;quic_mojha@quicinc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240219163954.7719-1-quic_mojha@quicinc.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>firmware_loader: Abort all upcoming firmware load request once reboot triggered</title>
<updated>2023-10-27T11:30:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mukesh Ojha</name>
<email>quic_mojha@quicinc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-26T14:27:39Z</published>
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There could be following scenario where there is a ongoing reboot
is going from processA which tries to call all the reboot notifier
callback and one of them is firmware reboot call which tries to
abort all the ongoing firmware userspace request under fw_lock but
there could be another processB which tries to do request firmware,
which came just after abort done from ProcessA and ask for userspace
to load the firmware and this can stop the ongoing reboot ProcessA
to stall for next 60s(default timeout) which may not be expected
behaviour everyone like to see, instead we should abort any firmware
load request which came once firmware knows about the reboot through
notification.

      ProcessA                             ProcessB

kernel_restart_prepare
  blocking_notifier_call_chain
   fw_shutdown_notify
     kill_pending_fw_fallback_reqs
      __fw_load_abort
       fw_state_aborted                request_firmware
         __fw_state_set                 firmware_fallback_sysfs
...                                       fw_load_from_user_helper
..                                         ...
.                                          ..
                                            usermodehelper_read_trylock
                                             fw_load_sysfs_fallback
                                              fw_sysfs_wait_timeout
usermodehelper_disable
 __usermodehelper_disable
  down_write()

Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha &lt;quic_mojha@quicinc.com&gt;
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1698330459-31776-2-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>firmware_loader: Refactor kill_pending_fw_fallback_reqs()</title>
<updated>2023-10-27T11:30:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mukesh Ojha</name>
<email>quic_mojha@quicinc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-26T14:27:38Z</published>
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Rename 'only_kill_custom' and refactor logic related to it
to be more meaningful.

Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha &lt;quic_mojha@quicinc.com&gt;
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1698330459-31776-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>firmware_loader: Fix a NULL vs IS_ERR() check</title>
<updated>2023-05-31T19:31:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-16T08:12:51Z</published>
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The crypto_alloc_shash() function doesn't return NULL, it returns
error pointers.  Update the check accordingly.

Fixes: 02fe26f25325 ("firmware_loader: Add debug message with checksum for FW file")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Cezary Rojewski &lt;cezary.rojewski@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/36ef6042-ce74-4e8e-9e2c-5b5c28940610@kili.mountain
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>firmware_loader: Strip off \n from customized path</title>
<updated>2023-04-20T09:42:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Fainelli</name>
<email>f.fainelli@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-13T19:17:57Z</published>
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Having helped an user recently figure out why the customized path being
specified was not taken into account landed on a subtle difference
between using:

echo "/xyz/firmware" &gt; /sys/module/firmware_class/parameters/path

which inserts an additional newline which is passed as is down to
fw_get_filesystem_firmware() and ultimately kernel_read_file_from_path()
and fails.

Strip off \n from the customized firmware path such that users do not
run into these hard to debug situations.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230402135423.3235-1-f.fainelli@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230413191757.1949088-1-f.fainelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>firmware_loader: Add debug message with checksum for FW file</title>
<updated>2023-03-29T10:22:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Amadeusz Sławiński</name>
<email>amadeuszx.slawinski@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-17T22:47:29Z</published>
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Enable dynamic-debug logging of firmware filenames and SHA256 checksums
to clearly identify the firmware files that are loaded by the system.

Example output:
[   34.944619] firmware_class:_request_firmware: i915 0000:00:02.0: Loaded FW: i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin, sha256: 2cde41c3e5ad181423bcc3e98ff9c49f743c88f18646af4d0b3c3a9664b831a1
[   48.155884] firmware_class:_request_firmware: snd_soc_avs 0000:00:1f.3: Loaded FW: intel/avs/cnl/dsp_basefw.bin, sha256: 43f6ac1b066e9bd0423d914960fbbdccb391af27d2b1da1085eee3ea8df0f357
[   49.579540] firmware_class:_request_firmware: snd_soc_avs 0000:00:1f.3: Loaded FW: intel/avs/rt274-tplg.bin, sha256: 4b3580da96dc3d2c443ba20c6728d8b665fceb3ed57223c3a57582bbad8e2413
[   49.798196] firmware_class:_request_firmware: snd_soc_avs 0000:00:1f.3: Loaded FW: intel/avs/hda-8086280c-tplg.bin, sha256: 5653172579b2be1b51fd69f5cf46e2bac8d63f2a1327924311c13b2f1fe6e601
[   49.859627] firmware_class:_request_firmware: snd_soc_avs 0000:00:1f.3: Loaded FW: intel/avs/dmic-tplg.bin, sha256: 00fb7fbdb74683333400d7e46925dae60db448b88638efcca0b30215db9df63f

Reviewed-by: Cezary Rojewski &lt;cezary.rojewski@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Russ Weight &lt;russell.h.weight@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Amadeusz Sławiński &lt;amadeuszx.slawinski@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230317224729.1025879-1-amadeuszx.slawinski@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cred: Do not default to init_cred in prepare_kernel_cred()</title>
<updated>2022-11-01T17:04:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-26T23:31:11Z</published>
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A common exploit pattern for ROP attacks is to abuse prepare_kernel_cred()
in order to construct escalated privileges[1]. Instead of providing a
short-hand argument (NULL) to the "daemon" argument to indicate using
init_cred as the base cred, require that "daemon" is always set to
an actual task. Replace all existing callers that were passing NULL
with &amp;init_task.

Future attacks will need to have sufficiently powerful read/write
primitives to have found an appropriately privileged task and written it
to the ROP stack as an argument to succeed, which is similarly difficult
to the prior effort needed to escalate privileges before struct cred
existed: locate the current cred and overwrite the uid member.

This has the added benefit of meaning that prepare_kernel_cred() can no
longer exceed the privileges of the init task, which may have changed from
the original init_cred (e.g. dropping capabilities from the bounding set).

[1] https://google.com/search?q=commit_creds(prepare_kernel_cred(0))

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steve French &lt;sfrench@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Ronnie Sahlberg &lt;lsahlber@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Shyam Prasad N &lt;sprasad@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Talpey &lt;tom@talpey.com&gt;
Cc: Namjae Jeon &lt;linkinjeon@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com&gt;
Cc: Anna Schumaker &lt;anna@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Michal Koutný" &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: samba-technical@lists.samba.org
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;senozhatsky@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Russ Weight &lt;russell.h.weight@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) &lt;pc@cjr.nz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221026232943.never.775-kees@kernel.org
</content>
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<entry>
<title>firmware_loader: Replace kmap() with kmap_local_page()</title>
<updated>2022-07-28T14:32:56Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Fabio M. De Francesco</name>
<email>fmdefrancesco@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-14T23:50:30Z</published>
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The use of kmap() is being deprecated in favor of kmap_local_page().

Two main problems with kmap(): (1) It comes with an overhead as mapping
space is restricted and protected by a global lock for synchronization and
(2) kmap() also requires global TLB invalidation when the kmap’s pool
wraps and it might block when the mapping space is fully utilized until a
slot becomes available.

kmap_local_page() is preferred over kmap() and kmap_atomic(). Where it
cannot mechanically replace the latters, code refactor should be considered
(special care must be taken if kernel virtual addresses are aliases in
different contexts).

With kmap_local_page() the mappings are per thread, CPU local, can take
page faults, and can be called from any context (including interrupts).

Call kmap_local_page() in firmware_loader wherever kmap() is currently
used. In firmware_rw() use the helpers copy_{from,to}_page() instead of
open coding the local mappings + memcpy().

Successfully tested with "firmware" selftests on a QEMU/KVM 32-bits VM
with 4GB RAM, booting a kernel with HIGHMEM64GB enabled.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco &lt;fmdefrancesco@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220714235030.12732-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2022-06-03T18:48:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-03T18:48:47Z</published>
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the set of driver core changes for 5.19-rc1.

  Lots of tiny driver core changes and cleanups happened this cycle, but
  the two major things are:

   - firmware_loader reorganization and additions including the ability
     to have XZ compressed firmware images and the ability for userspace
     to initiate the firmware load when it needs to, instead of being
     always initiated by the kernel. FPGA devices specifically want this
     ability to have their firmware changed over the lifetime of the
     system boot, and this allows them to work without having to come up
     with yet-another-custom-uapi interface for loading firmware for
     them.

   - physical location support added to sysfs so that devices that know
     this information, can tell userspace where they are located in a
     common way. Some ACPI devices already support this today, and more
     bus types should support this in the future.

  Smaller changes include:

   - driver_override api cleanups and fixes

   - error path cleanups and fixes

   - get_abi script fixes

   - deferred probe timeout changes.

  It's that last change that I'm the most worried about. It has been
  reported to cause boot problems for a number of systems, and I have a
  tested patch series that resolves this issue. But I didn't get it
  merged into my tree before 5.18-final came out, so it has not gotten
  any linux-next testing.

  I'll send the fixup patches (there are 2) as a follow-on series to this
  pull request.

  All have been tested in linux-next for weeks, with no reported issues
  other than the above-mentioned boot time-outs"

* tag 'driver-core-5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (55 commits)
  driver core: fix deadlock in __device_attach
  kernfs: Separate kernfs_pr_cont_buf and rename_lock.
  topology: Remove unused cpu_cluster_mask()
  driver core: Extend deferred probe timeout on driver registration
  MAINTAINERS: add Russ Weight as a firmware loader maintainer
  driver: base: fix UAF when driver_attach failed
  test_firmware: fix end of loop test in upload_read_show()
  driver core: location: Add "back" as a possible output for panel
  driver core: location: Free struct acpi_pld_info *pld
  driver core: Add "*" wildcard support to driver_async_probe cmdline param
  driver core: location: Check for allocations failure
  arch_topology: Trace the update thermal pressure
  kernfs: Rename kernfs_put_open_node to kernfs_unlink_open_file.
  export: fix string handling of namespace in EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS
  rpmsg: use local 'dev' variable
  rpmsg: Fix calling device_lock() on non-initialized device
  firmware_loader: describe 'module' parameter of firmware_upload_register()
  firmware_loader: Move definitions from sysfs_upload.h to sysfs.h
  firmware_loader: Fix configs for sysfs split
  selftests: firmware: Add firmware upload selftests
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>firmware_loader: use kernel credentials when reading firmware</title>
<updated>2022-05-06T08:00:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thiébaud Weksteen</name>
<email>tweek@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-02T00:49:52Z</published>
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Device drivers may decide to not load firmware when probed to avoid
slowing down the boot process should the firmware filesystem not be
available yet. In this case, the firmware loading request may be done
when a device file associated with the driver is first accessed. The
credentials of the userspace process accessing the device file may be
used to validate access to the firmware files requested by the driver.
Ensure that the kernel assumes the responsibility of reading the
firmware.

This was observed on Android for a graphic driver loading their firmware
when the device file (e.g. /dev/mali0) was first opened by userspace
(i.e. surfaceflinger). The security context of surfaceflinger was used
to validate the access to the firmware file (e.g.
/vendor/firmware/mali.bin).

Previously, Android configurations were not setting up the
firmware_class.path command line argument and were relying on the
userspace fallback mechanism. In this case, the security context of the
userspace daemon (i.e. ueventd) was consistently used to read firmware
files. More Android devices are now found to set firmware_class.path
which gives the kernel the opportunity to read the firmware directly
(via kernel_read_file_from_path_initns). In this scenario, the current
process credentials were used, even if unrelated to the loading of the
firmware file.

Signed-off-by: Thiébaud Weksteen &lt;tweek@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 5.10
Reviewed-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220502004952.3970800-1-tweek@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
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