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From: Baskov Evgeniy <baskov@ispras.ru>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Baskov Evgeniy <baskov@ispras.ru>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH RFC 4/5] efi: Add option for handling efi memory protection
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 13:46:12 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211110104613.23881-5-baskov@ispras.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211110104613.23881-1-baskov@ispras.ru>

Add option to enable handling strict page table permissions
added in previous patches.

Signed-off-by: Baskov Evgeniy <baskov@ispras.ru>
---
 drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
index 2c3dac5ecb36..f57a9c865dce 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
@@ -243,6 +243,23 @@ config EFI_DISABLE_PCI_DMA
 	  options "efi=disable_early_pci_dma" or "efi=no_disable_early_pci_dma"
 	  may be used to override this option.
 
+config EFI_STRICT_PGTABLE
+	bool "Handle strict page table permissions in libstub"
+	depends on EFI_STUB && X86
+	default y
+	help
+	  Some firmware disables execution of memory allocated in boot loader
+	  and/or lower megabyte of physical address space, since it is allowed
+	  by specification. That prevents Linux kernel from booting.
+
+	  This option makes libstub either create temporary identity mapped
+	  page tables with unset non-executable flag  on x86_64 or just disable
+	  paging altogether on i386 to overcome the issue.
+
+	  If firmware does not restrict permissions on identity page tables,
+	  temporary page table creation may be disabled with kernel command
+	  line option "efi=notemppt".
+
 endmenu
 
 config EFI_EMBEDDED_FIRMWARE
-- 
2.33.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-10 10:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-10 10:46 [PATCH RFC 0/5] Handle UEFI NX-restricted page tables Baskov Evgeniy
2021-11-10 10:46 ` [PATCH RFC 1/5] efi/x86: Disable paging when booting via efistub Baskov Evgeniy
2021-11-10 10:46 ` [PATCH RFC 2/5] efi/x86_64: set page table if provided by libstub Baskov Evgeniy
2021-11-10 10:46 ` [PATCH RFC 3/5] libstub: build temporary page table without NX-bit Baskov Evgeniy
2021-11-10 10:46 ` Baskov Evgeniy [this message]
2021-11-10 10:46 ` [PATCH RFC 5/5] Docs: document notemppt option Baskov Evgeniy
2021-11-10 11:11 ` [PATCH RFC 0/5] Handle UEFI NX-restricted page tables Ard Biesheuvel
2021-11-25  7:36   ` baskov
2021-12-16 17:30     ` Ard Biesheuvel

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