Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH v2 2/3] efi: call get_event_log before ExitBootServices

Javier Martinez Canillas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups net.sourceforge.lists.tpmdd-devel,org.kernel.vger.linux-efi,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 09/18/2017 02:11 PM, Thiebaud Weksteen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 12:24 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 09/11/2017 12:00 PM, Thiebaud Weksteen via tpmdd-devel wrote:

[snip]

>>> +
>>> +     if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) {
>>> +             efi_printk(sys_table_arg,
>>> +                        "Unable to allocate memory for event log\n");
>>> +             return;
>>> +     }
>>
>> If this fails or any previous error that will prevent the event log table + logs
>> to be allocated, shouldn't tpm_read_log_efi() be notified somehow? Since AFAICT
>> it will still try to access them even if the EFI allocate_pool did not succeed.
>>
> 
> The implicit part that covers this case is in
> drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c. The match_config_table function will go
> through all the installed configuration tables and only fill up the
> associated member of the efi structure if it exists. In this case,
> .tpm_log will remains at EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR unless
> efi_call_early(install_configuration_table, ...) is called. So no
> further processing is to be expected should the allocation failed.
>

I see, missed that. Thanks a lot for the explanation.

>>> + */
>>> +int __init efi_tpm_eventlog_init(void)
>>> +{
>>> +     struct linux_efi_tpm_eventlog *tbl;
>>> +     unsigned int tbl_size;
>>> +
>>
>> The functions efi_retrieve_tpm2_eventlog_1_2() and tpm_read_log_efi() are using
>> log_tbl as variable name, so I would use it here too for consistency.
>>
> 
> Done.
> 
>>> +     if (efi.tpm_log == EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR)
>>> +             return 0;
>>> +
>>> +     tbl = early_memremap(efi.tpm_log, sizeof(*tbl));
>>> +     if (!tbl) {
>>> +             pr_err("Failed to map TPM Event Log table @ 0x%lx\n",
>>> +                     efi.tpm_log);
>>> +             return -ENOMEM;
>>> +     }
>>> +
>>
>> Same question than before, if this fails then the table + logs memory won't be
>> reserved but tpm_read_log_efi() will still try to access it. I'm not sure what
>> is the correct way to notify though, maybe setting efi.tpm_log to 0 and then in
>> tpm_read_log_efi() check efi.tpm_log for 0 or EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR instead?
>>
> 
> That's right. To keep it simple, it might be easier to just set
> tpm_log to EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR if that happens. Added in the next
> version of the patch set.
>

Right. I wasn't sure if you wanted to distinguish between the two cases, but that
is simpler indeed.

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Software Engineer - Desktop Hardware Enablement
Red Hat
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