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In some cases the platform's main firmware (e.g. the UEFI fw) may contain
an embedded copy of device firmware which needs to be (re)loaded into the
peripheral. Normally such firmware would be part of linux-firmware, but in
some cases this is not feasible, for 2 reasons:
1) The firmware is customized for a specific use-case of the chipset / use
with a specific hardware model, so we cannot have a single firmware file
for the chipset. E.g. touchscreen controller firmwares are compiled
specifically for the hardware model they are used with, as they are
calibrated for a specific model digitizer.
2) Despite repeated attempts we have failed to get permission to
redistribute the firmware. This is especially a problem with customized
firmwares, these get created by the chip vendor for a specific ODM and the
copyright may partially belong with the ODM, so the chip vendor cannot
give a blanket permission to distribute these.
This commit adds a new platform fallback mechanism to the firmware loader
which will try to lookup a device fw copy embedded in the platform's main
firmware if direct filesystem lookup fails.
Drivers which need such embedded fw copies can enable this fallback
mechanism by using the new firmware_request_platform() function.
Note that for now this is only supported on EFI platforms and even on
these platforms firmware_fallback_platform() only works if
CONFIG_EFI_EMBEDDED_FIRMWARE is enabled (this gets selected by drivers
which need this), in all other cases firmware_fallback_platform() simply
always returns -ENOENT.
Reported-by: Dave Olsthoorn <dave@bewaar.me>
Suggested-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200115163554.101315-5-hdegoede@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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This is a preparation patch for adding a new platform fallback mechanism,
which will have its own enable/disable FW_OPT_xxx option.
Note this also fixes a typo in one of the re-wordwrapped comments:
enfoce -> enforce.
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200115163554.101315-4-hdegoede@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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I mistakenly dropped the inline while resolving the patch conflicts in
the previous fix patch. Without inline, we get compiler warnings wrt
unused functions.
Note that Mauro's original patch contained the correct changes; it's
all my fault to submit a patch before a morning coffee.
Fixes: c8917b8ff09e ("firmware: fix build errors in paged buffer handling code")
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190723081159.22624-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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fw_{grow,map}_paged_buf() need to be defined as static inline
when CONFIG_FW_LOADER_PAGED_BUF is not enabled,
infact fw_free_paged_buf() is also defined as static inline
when CONFIG_FW_LOADER_PAGED_BUF is not enabled.
Fixes the following mutiple definition building errors for Android kernel:
drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback_efi.o: In function `fw_grow_paged_buf':
fallback_efi.c:(.text+0x0): multiple definition of `fw_grow_paged_buf'
drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.o:(.text+0x73b): first defined here
drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback_efi.o: In function `fw_map_paged_buf':
fallback_efi.c:(.text+0xf): multiple definition of `fw_map_paged_buf'
drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.o:(.text+0x74a): first defined here
[ slightly corrected the patch description -- tiwai ]
Fixes: 5342e7093ff2 ("firmware: Factor out the paged buffer handling code")
Fixes: 82fd7a8142a1 ("firmware: Add support for loading compressed files")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Rossi <issor.oruam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190722055536.15342-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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This patch adds the support for loading compressed firmware files.
The primary motivation is to reduce the storage size; e.g. currently
the files in /lib/firmware on my machine counts up to 419MB, while
they can be reduced to 130MB by file compression.
The patch introduces a new kconfig option CONFIG_FW_LOADER_COMPRESS.
Even with this option set, the firmware loader still tries to load the
original firmware file as-is at first, but then falls back to the file
with ".xz" extension when it's not found, and the decompressed file
content is returned to the caller of request_firmware(). So, no
change is needed for the rest.
Currently only XZ format is supported. A caveat is that the kernel XZ
helper code supports only CRC32 (or none) integrity check type, so
you'll have to compress the files via xz -C crc32 option.
Since we can't determine the expanded size immediately from an XZ
file, the patch re-uses the paged buffer that was used for the
user-mode fallback; it puts the decompressed content page, which are
vmapped at the end. The paged buffer code is conditionally built with
a new Kconfig that is selected automatically.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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This is merely a preparation for the upcoming compressed firmware
support and no functional changes. It moves the code to handle the
paged buffer allocation and mapping out of fallback.c into the main
code, so that they can be used commonly.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Use a common helper to release the paged buffer resources.
This is rather a preparation for the upcoming decompression support.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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This is done since this call is now exposed through kernel-doc,
and since this also paves the way for different future types of
fallback mechanims.
Signed-off-by: Andres Rodriguez <andresx7@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
[mcgrof: small coding style changes]
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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This should let us associate enum kdoc to these values.
While at it, kdocify the fw_opt.
Signed-off-by: Andres Rodriguez <andresx7@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
[mcgrof: coding style fixes, merge kdoc with enum move]
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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This will make it much easier to manage as we manage to
keep trimming componnents down into their own files to more
easily manage and maintain this codebase.
Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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