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Commit c7225494 authored by Ard Biesheuvel's avatar Ard Biesheuvel
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efi/arm: Work around missing cache maintenance in decompressor handover



The EFI stub executes within the context of the zImage as it was
loaded by the firmware, which means it is treated as an ordinary
PE/COFF executable, which is loaded into memory, and cleaned to
the PoU to ensure that it can be executed safely while the MMU
and caches are on.

When the EFI stub hands over to the decompressor, we clean the caches
by set/way and disable the MMU and D-cache, to comply with the Linux
boot protocol for ARM. However, cache maintenance by set/way is not
sufficient to ensure that subsequent instruction fetches and data
accesses done with the MMU off see the correct data. This means that
proceeding as we do currently is not safe, especially since we also
perform data accesses with the MMU off, from a literal pool as well as
the stack.

So let's kick this can down the road a bit, and jump into the relocated
zImage before disabling the caches. This removes the requirement to
perform any by-VA cache maintenance on the original PE/COFF executable,
but it does require that the relocated zImage is cleaned to the PoC,
which is currently not the case. This will be addressed in a subsequent
patch.

Signed-off-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
parent bb6d3fb3
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