Some systems are memory constrained but they need to load very large
firmwares. The firmware subsystem allows drivers to request this
firmware be loaded from the filesystem, but this requires that the
entire firmware be loaded into kernel memory first before it's provided
to the driver. This can lead to a situation where we map the firmware
twice, once to load the firmware into kernel memory and once to copy the
firmware into the final resting place.
This creates needless memory pressure and delays loading because we have
to copy from kernel memory to somewhere else. Let's add a
request_firmware_into_buf() API that allows drivers to request firmware
be loaded directly into a pre-allocated buffer. This skips the
intermediate step of allocating a buffer in kernel memory to hold the
firmware image while it's read from the filesystem. It also requires
that drivers know how much memory they'll require before requesting the
firmware and negates any benefits of firmware caching because the
firmware layer doesn't manage the buffer lifetime.
For a 16MB buffer, about half the time is spent performing a memcpy from
the buffer to the final resting place. I see loading times go from
0.081171 seconds to 0.047696 seconds after applying this patch. Plus
the vmalloc pressure is reduced.
This is based on a patch from Vikram Mulukutla on codeaurora.org:
https://www.codeaurora.org/cgit/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/drivers/base/firmware_class.c?h=rel/msm-3.18&id=0a328c5f6cd999f5c591f172216835636f39bcb5
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160607164741.31849-4-stephen.boyd@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd@linaro.org>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some low memory systems with complex peripherals cannot afford to have
the relatively large firmware images taking up valuable memory during
suspend and resume. Change the internal implementation of
firmware_class to disallow caching based on a configurable option. In
the near future, variants of request_firmware will take advantage of
this feature.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160607164741.31849-3-stephen.boyd@linaro.org
[stephen.boyd@linaro.org: Drop firmware_desc design and use flags]
Signed-off-by: Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd@linaro.org>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some systems are memory constrained but they need to load very large
firmwares. The firmware subsystem allows drivers to request this
firmware be loaded from the filesystem, but this requires that the
entire firmware be loaded into kernel memory first before it's provided
to the driver. This can lead to a situation where we map the firmware
twice, once to load the firmware into kernel memory and once to copy the
firmware into the final resting place.
This design creates needless memory pressure and delays loading because
we have to copy from kernel memory to somewhere else. This patch sets
adds support to the request firmware API to load the firmware directly
into a pre-allocated buffer, skipping the intermediate copying step and
alleviating memory pressure during firmware loading. The drawback is
that we can't use the firmware caching feature because the memory for
the firmware cache is not managed by the firmware layer.
This patch (of 3):
We use similar structured code to read and write the kmapped firmware
pages. The only difference is read copies from the kmap region and
write copies to it. Consolidate this into one function to reduce
duplication.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160607164741.31849-2-stephen.boyd@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd@linaro.org>
Cc: Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Here is the big char/misc driver update for 4.6-rc1.
The majority of the patches here is hwtracing and some new mic drivers,
but there's a lot of other driver updates as well. Full details in the
shortlog.
All have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'char-misc-4.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big char/misc driver update for 4.6-rc1.
The majority of the patches here is hwtracing and some new mic
drivers, but there's a lot of other driver updates as well. Full
details in the shortlog.
All have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues"
* tag 'char-misc-4.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (238 commits)
goldfish: Fix build error of missing ioremap on UM
nvmem: mediatek: Fix later provider initialization
nvmem: imx-ocotp: Fix return value of imx_ocotp_read
nvmem: Fix dependencies for !HAS_IOMEM archs
char: genrtc: replace blacklist with whitelist
drivers/hwtracing: make coresight-etm-perf.c explicitly non-modular
drivers: char: mem: fix IS_ERROR_VALUE usage
char: xillybus: Fix internal data structure initialization
pch_phub: return -ENODATA if ROM can't be mapped
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Support kexec on ws2012 r2 and above
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Support handling messages on multiple CPUs
Drivers: hv: utils: Remove util transport handler from list if registration fails
Drivers: hv: util: Pass the channel information during the init call
Drivers: hv: vmbus: avoid unneeded compiler optimizations in vmbus_wait_for_unload()
Drivers: hv: vmbus: remove code duplication in message handling
Drivers: hv: vmbus: avoid wait_for_completion() on crash
Drivers: hv: vmbus: don't loose HVMSG_TIMER_EXPIRED messages
misc: at24: replace memory_accessor with nvmem_device_read
eeprom: 93xx46: extend driver to plug into the NVMEM framework
eeprom: at25: extend driver to plug into the NVMEM framework
...
When we now use the new kernel_read_file_from_path() we
are reporting a failure when we iterate over all the paths
possible for firmware. Before using kernel_read_file_from_path()
we only reported a failure once we confirmed a file existed
with filp_open() but failed with fw_read_file_contents().
With kernel_read_file_from_path() both are done for us and
we obviously are now reporting too much information given that
some optional paths will always fail and clutter the logs.
fw_get_filesystem_firmware() already has a check for failure
and uses an internal flag, FW_OPT_NO_WARN, but this does not
let us capture other unxpected errors. This enables that
as changed by Neil via commit:
"firmware: Be a bit more verbose about direct firmware loading failure"
Reported-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Replace the fw_read_file_contents with kernel_file_read_from_path().
Although none of the upstreamed LSMs define a kernel_fw_from_file hook,
IMA is called by the security function to prevent unsigned firmware from
being loaded and to measure/appraise signed firmware, based on policy.
Instead of reading the firmware twice, once for measuring/appraising the
firmware and again for reading the firmware contents into memory, the
kernel_post_read_file() security hook calculates the file hash based on
the in memory file buffer. The firmware is read once.
This patch removes the LSM kernel_fw_from_file() hook and security call.
Changelog v4+:
- revert dropped buf->size assignment - reported by Sergey Senozhatsky
v3:
- remove kernel_fw_from_file hook
- use kernel_file_read_from_path() - requested by Luis
v2:
- reordered and squashed firmware patches
- fix MAX firmware size (Kees Cook)
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
This makes the error and success paths more readable while trying to
load firmware from the filesystem.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This will be re-used later through a new extensible interface.
Reviewed-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Simplify a few of the *generic* shared dev_warn() and dev_dbg()
print messages for three reasons:
0) Historically firmware_class code was added to help
get device driver firmware binaries but these days
request_firmware*() helpers are being repurposed for
general *system data* needed by the kernel.
1) This will also help generalize shared code as much as possible
later in the future in consideration for a new extensible firmware
API which will enable to separate usermode helper code out as much
as possible.
2) Kees Cook pointed out the the prints already have the device
associated as dev_*() helpers are used, that should help identify
the user and case in which the helpers are used. That should provide
enough context and simplifies the messages further.
v4: generalize debug/warn messages even further as suggested by
Kees Cook.
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Vojtěch Pavlík <vojtech@suse.cz>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
No need to use use continuous memory, it may be fail
when memory deeply fragmented.
Signed-off-by: Chen Feng <puck.chen@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Xia Qing <saberlily.xia@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Simplify a few of the *generic* shared dev_warn() and dev_dbg()
print messages for three reasons:
0) Historically firmware_class code was added to help
get device driver firmware binaries but these days
request_firmware*() helpers are being repurposed for
general *system data* needed by the kernel.
1) This will also help generalize shared code as much as possible
later in the future in consideration for a new extensible firmware
API which will enable to separate usermode helper code out as much
as possible.
2) Kees Cook pointed out the the prints already have the device
associated as dev_*() helpers are used, that should help identify
the user and case in which the helpers are used. That should provide
enough context and simplifies the messages further.
v4: generalize debug/warn messages even further as suggested by
Kees Cook.
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Vojtěch Pavlík <vojtech@suse.cz>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Device resource data allocated with devres_alloc() must be deallocated
by devres_free().
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@mleia.com>
Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The firmware class uevent function accessed the "fw_priv->buf" buffer
without the proper locking and testing for NULL. This is an old bug
(looks like it goes back to 2012 and commit 1244691c73: "firmware
loader: introduce firmware_buf"), but for some reason it's triggering
only now in 4.2-rc1.
Shuah Khan is trying to bisect what it is that causes this to trigger
more easily, but in the meantime let's just fix the bug since others are
hitting it too (at least Ingo reports having seen it as well).
Reported-and-tested-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The recent fix to use kstrdup_const() failed to add a
kfree upon failure of name allocation...
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
We currently use flexible arrays with a char at the
end for the remaining internal firmware name uses.
There are two limitations with the way we use this.
Since we're using a flexible array for a string on the
struct if we wanted to use two strings it means we'd
have a disjoint means of handling the strings, one
using the flexible array, and another a char * pointer.
We're also currently not using 'const' for the string.
We wish to later extend some firmware data structures
with other string/char pointers, but we also want to be
very pedantic about const usage. Since we're going to
change things to use 'const' we might as well also address
unified way to use multiple strings on the structs.
Replace the flexible array practice for strings with
kstrdup_const() and kfree_const(), this will avoid
allocations when the vmlinux .rodata is used, and just
allocate a new proper string for us when needed. This
also means we can simplify the struct allocations by
removing the string length from the allocation size
computation, which would otherwise get even more
complicated when supporting multiple strings.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
When direct firmware loading is used we iterate over a list
of possible firmware paths and concatenate the desired firmware
name with each path and look for the file there. Should the
passed firmware name be too long we end up truncating the
file we want to look for, the search however is still done.
Add a check for truncation instead of looking for a
truncated firmware filename.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The request_firmware*() APIs uses __getname() to iterate
over the list of paths possible for firmware to be found,
the code however never checked for failure on __getname().
Although *very unlikely*, this can still happen. Add the
missing check.
There is still no checks on the concatenation of the path
and filename passed, that requires a bit more work and
subsequent patches address this. The commit that introduced
this is abb139e7 ("firmware: teach the kernel to load
firmware files directly from the filesystem").
mcgrof@ergon ~/linux (git::firmware-fixes) $ git describe --contains abb139e7
v3.7-rc1~120
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
When using the user mode helper to load firmwares the function _request_firmware
gets a positive return value from fw_load_from_user_helper and because of this
the firmware buffer is not assigned. This happens only when the return value
is zero. This patch fixes this problem in _request_firmware_load. When the
completion is ready the return value is set to zero.
Signed-off-by: Zahari Doychev <zahari.doychev@linux.com>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Use the static attribute groups assigned to the device instead of
manual device_create_file() & co calls. It simplifies the code and
can avoid possible races, too.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Really tiny set of patches for this kernel. Nothing major, all
described in the shortlog and have been in linux-next for a while.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'driver-core-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core patches from Greg KH:
"Really tiny set of patches for this kernel. Nothing major, all
described in the shortlog and have been in linux-next for a while"
* tag 'driver-core-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core:
sysfs: fix warning when creating a sysfs group without attributes
firmware_loader: handle timeout via wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout()
firmware_loader: abort request if wait_for_completion is interrupted
firmware: Correct function name in comment
device: Change dev_<level> logging functions to return void
device: Fix dev_dbg_once macro
This patch reduces the kernel size by removing error messages that duplicate
the normal OOM message.
A simplified version of the semantic patch that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr)
@@
identifier f,print,l;
expression e;
constant char[] c;
@@
e = \(kzalloc\|kmalloc\|devm_kzalloc\|devm_kmalloc\)(...);
if (e == NULL) {
<+...
- print(...,c,...);
... when any
(
goto l;
|
return ...;
)
...+> }
Signed-off-by: Quentin Lambert <lambert.quentin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
It is simpler to handle timeout by wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout(),
so remove previous delay work for timeout.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
If current request is interrupted by signal, such as 'ctrl + c',
this request has to be aborted for the following reasons:
- the buf need to be removed from pending list
- same requests from other contexts need to be completed
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Use the correct function name in the kernel-doc comment above it.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The vunmap() function performes also input parameter validation. Thus the test
around the call is not needed.
This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
An empty firmware request name will trigger warnings when building
device names. Make sure this is caught earlier and rejected.
The warning was visible via the test_firmware.ko module interface:
echo -ne "\x00" > /sys/devices/virtual/misc/test_firmware/trigger_request
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
"In this release:
- PKCS#7 parser for the key management subsystem from David Howells
- appoint Kees Cook as seccomp maintainer
- bugfixes and general maintenance across the subsystem"
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (94 commits)
X.509: Need to export x509_request_asymmetric_key()
netlabel: shorter names for the NetLabel catmap funcs/structs
netlabel: fix the catmap walking functions
netlabel: fix the horribly broken catmap functions
netlabel: fix a problem when setting bits below the previously lowest bit
PKCS#7: X.509 certificate issuer and subject are mandatory fields in the ASN.1
tpm: simplify code by using %*phN specifier
tpm: Provide a generic means to override the chip returned timeouts
tpm: missing tpm_chip_put in tpm_get_random()
tpm: Properly clean sysfs entries in error path
tpm: Add missing tpm_do_selftest to ST33 I2C driver
PKCS#7: Use x509_request_asymmetric_key()
Revert "selinux: fix the default socket labeling in sock_graft()"
X.509: x509_request_asymmetric_keys() doesn't need string length arguments
PKCS#7: fix sparse non static symbol warning
KEYS: revert encrypted key change
ima: add support for measuring and appraising firmware
firmware_class: perform new LSM checks
security: introduce kernel_fw_from_file hook
PKCS#7: Missing inclusion of linux/err.h
...
This attaches LSM hooks to the existing firmware loading interfaces:
filesystem-found firmware and demand-loaded blobs. On errors, loads
are aborted and the failure code is returned to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
_request_firmware_load() returns -ENOMEM when fw load is aborted after
timeout. Call is_fw_load_aborted() to check if fw load is aborted and
if true return -EAGAIN.
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Now that the udev firmware loader is optional request_firmware()
will not provide any information on the kernel ring buffer if
direct firmware loading failed and udev firmware loading is disabled.
If no information is needed request_firmware_direct() should be used
for optional firmware, at which point drivers can take on the onus
over informing of any failures, if udev firmware loading is disabled
though we should at the very least provide some sort of information
as when the udev loader was enabled by default back in the days.
With this change with a simple firmware load test module [0]:
Example output without FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK
platform fake-dev.0: Direct firmware load for fake.bin failed
with error -2
Example with FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK
platform fake-dev.0: Direct firmware load for fake.bin failed with error -2
platform fake-dev.0: Falling back to user helper
Without this change without FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK we
get no output logged upon failure.
Cc: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com>
Cc: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
use mm.h definition
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
There is no need to read attr because inode structure contains size
of the file. Use i_size_read() instead.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[The patch was originally proposed by Tom Gundersen, and rewritten
afterwards by me; most of changelogs below borrowed from Tom's
original patch -- tiwai]
Currently (at least) the dell-rbu driver selects FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER,
which means that distros can't really stop loading firmware through
udev without breaking other users (though some have).
Ideally we would remove/disable the udev firmware helper in both the
kernel and in udev, but if we were to disable it in udev and not the
kernel, the result would be (seemingly) hung kernels as no one would
be around to cancel firmware requests.
This patch allows udev firmware loading to be disabled while still
allowing non-udev firmware loading, as done by the dell-rbu driver, to
continue working. This is achieved by only using the fallback
mechanism when the uevent is suppressed.
The patch renames the user-selectable Kconfig from FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
to FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK, and the former is reverse-selected
by the latter or the drivers that need userhelper like dell-rbu.
Also, the "default y" is removed together with this change, since it's
been deprecated in udev upstream, thus rather better to disable it
nowadays.
Tested with
FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n
LATTICE_ECP3_CONFIG=y
DELL_RBU=y
and udev without the firmware loading support, but I don't have the
hardware to test the lattice/dell drivers, so additional testing would
be appreciated.
Reviewed-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com>
Cc: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Tested-by: Balaji Singh <B_B_Singh@DELL.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
During restore, pm_notifier chain are called with
PM_RESTORE_PREPARE. The firmware_class driver handler
fw_pm_notify does not have a handler for this. As a result,
it keeps a reader on the kmod.c umhelper_sem. During
freeze_processes, the call to __usermodehelper_disable tries to
take a write lock on this semaphore and hangs waiting.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Capella <sebastian.capella@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: All applicable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Allow the scheduler to select the most appropriate CPU for running the
firmware load timeout routine and delayed routine for firmware unload.
This extends idle residency times and conserves power.
This functionality is enabled when CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT is selected.
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Shaibal Dutta <shaibal.dutta@broadcom.com>
[zoran.markovic@linaro.org: Rebased to latest kernel, added commit message.
Fixed code alignment.]
Signed-off-by: Zoran Markovic <zoran.markovic@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
We expect to read firmware blobs with a single call to kernel_read(),
which returns int. Therefore the size must be within the range of
int, not long.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Avoid that sparse reports the following warning on __fw_free_buf():
drivers/base/firmware_class.c:230:9: warning: context imbalance in '__fw_free_buf' - unexpected unlock
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The commit [3e358ac2bb: firmware: Be a bit more verbose about direct
firmware loading failure] introduced a new warning message about
falling back to user helper, but this isn't true when
CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER isn't set.
In this patch, clear the FW_OPT_FALLBACK flag in the case without
userhelper, so that the corresponding code will be disabled.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
More than two boolean arguments to a function are rather confusing and
error-prone for callers. Let's make the behavior bit flags instead of
triple combos.
A nice suggestion by Borislav Petkov.
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
When CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER is set, request_firmware() falls
back to the usermode helper for loading via udev when the direct
loading fails. But the recent udev takes way too long timeout (60
seconds) for non-existing firmware. This is unacceptable for the
drivers like microcode loader where they load firmwares optionally,
i.e. it's no error even if no requested file exists.
This patch provides a new helper function, request_firmware_direct().
It behaves as same as request_firmware() except for that it doesn't
fall back to usermode helper but returns an error immediately if the
f/w can't be loaded directly in kernel.
Without CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=y, request_firmware_direct() is
just an alias of request_firmware(), due to obvious reason.
Tested-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The direct firmware loading interface is a bit quiet about failures. Failures
that occur during loading are masked if firmware exists in multiple locations,
and may be masked entirely in the event that we fall back to the user mode
helper code. It would be nice to see some of the more unexpected errors get
logged, so in the event that you expect the direct firmware loader to work (like
if CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER is enabled), and something goes wrong, you can
figure out what happened.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Got the following oops just before reboot:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
[<8028d300>] (__list_del_entry+0x44/0xac)
[<802e3320>] (__fw_load_abort.part.13+0x1c/0x50)
[<802e337c>] (fw_shutdown_notify+0x28/0x50)
[<80034f80>] (notifier_call_chain.isra.1+0x5c/0x9c)
[<800350ec>] (__blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x44/0x58)
[<80035114>] (blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x14/0x18)
[<80035d64>] (kernel_restart_prepare+0x14/0x38)
[<80035d94>] (kernel_restart+0xc/0x50)
The following race condition triggers here:
_request_firmware_load()
device_create_file(...)
kobject_uevent(...)
(schedule)
(resume)
firmware_loading_store(1)
firmware_loading_store(0)
list_del_init(&buf->pending_list)
(schedule)
(resume)
list_add(&buf->pending_list, &pending_fw_head);
wait_for_completion(&buf->completion);
causing an oops later when walking pending_list after the firmware has
been released.
The proposed fix is to move the list_add() before sysfs attribute
creation.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Use __ATTR_RW() instead of __ATTR() to make it more obvious what the
type of attribute is being created.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch fixes another compiling warning with PM_SLEEP unset:
drivers/base/firmware_class.c:221:29: warning: 'fw_lookup_buf' defined
but not used [-Wunused-function]
This time I do build kernel with both PM_SLEEP set and unset, and no
warning found any more with the patch.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
