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Instead of passing opt_flags around so much, store it in the private
structure so it can be examined by internals without needing to add more
arguments to functions.
Co-developed-by: Scott Branden <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Scott Branden <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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"enum fw_opt" is not used as an enum.
Change fw_opt to u32 as FW_OPT_* values are OR'd together.
Signed-off-by: Scott Branden <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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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 <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Peter Jones <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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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 <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>
[mcgrof: small coding style changes]
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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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 <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>
[mcgrof: coding style fixes, merge kdoc with enum move]
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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Including:
- Fixup outdated kernel-doc paths
- Slightly too short title underline
- Some typos
Signed-off-by: Andres Rodriguez <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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You currently need four different kernel builds to test the firmware
API fully. By adding a proc knob to force disable the fallback mechanism
completely we are able to reduce the amount of kernels you need built
to test the firmware API down to two.
Acked-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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Currently one requires to test four kernel configurations to test the
firmware API completely:
0)
CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y
1)
o CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y
o CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=y
2)
o CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y
o CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=y
o CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK=y
3) When CONFIG_FW_LOADER=m the built-in stuff is disabled, we have
no current tests for this.
We can reduce the requirements to three kernel configurations by making
fw_config.force_sysfs_fallback a proc knob we flip on off. For kernels that
disable CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC this can also enable one to inspect if
CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK was enabled at build time by checking
the proc value at boot time.
Acked-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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