[linux] Avoid starting currticks() from zero every time
iPXE uses currticks() (along with the MAC address(es) of any network
devices) to seed the (non-cryptographic) random number generator. The
current implementation of linux_currticks() ensures that the first
call to currticks() will always return zero; this results in identical
random number sequences on each run of iPXE on a given machine. This
can cause odd-looking behaviour due to e.g. the reuse of local TCP
port numbers.
Fix by effectively rounding down the start time recorded by
linux_currticks() to the nearest whole second; this makes it unlikely
that consecutive runs of iPXE will use the exact same RNG sequence.
(Note that none of this affects the cryptographic RNG, which uses
/dev/random as a source of entropy.)
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[tcp] Update window even if ACK does not acknowledge new data
iPXE currently ignores ACKs which do not acknowledge any new data.
(In particular, it does not stop the retransmission timer; this is
done to prevent an immediate retransmission if a duplicate ACK is
received while the transmit queue is non-empty.)
If a peer provides a window size of zero and later sends a duplicate
ACK to update the window size, this update will therefore be ignored
and iPXE will never be able to transmit data.
Fix by updating the window size even for ACKs which do not acknowledge
new data.
Reported-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[netdevice] Mark devices as open before calling open() method
When opening a VLAN device, vlan_open() will call netdev_open() on the
trunk device. This will result in a call to netdev_notify(), which
will cause vlan_notify() to call vlan_sync() on the original VLAN
device, which will see that the trunk device is now open but the VLAN
device apparently isn't (since it has not yet been flagged as open by
netdev_open()). The upshot is a second attempt to open the VLAN
device, which will result in an erroneous second call to vlan_open().
This convoluted chain of events then terminates harmlessly since
vlan_open() calls netdev_open() on the trunk device, which just
returns immediately since the trunk device is by now flagged as being
already open.
Prevent this from happening by having netdev_open() flag the device as
open prior to calling the device's open() method, and reflagging it as
closed if the open() method fails.
Originally-fixed-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[romprefix] Do not clobber stack segment when returning to BIOS
Commit c429bf0 ("[romprefix] Store boot bus:dev.fn address as autoboot
device location") introduced a regression by using register %cx to
temporarily hold the PCI bus:dev.fn address, despite the fact that %cx
was already being used to hold the stored BIOS stack segment.
Consequently, when returning to the BIOS after a failed or cancelled
boot attempt, iPXE would end up calling INT 18 with the stack segment
set equal to the PCI bus:dev.fn address. Writing to essentially
random areas of memory tends to upset even the more robust BIOSes.
Fix by using register %ax to temporarily hold the PCI bus:dev.fn
address.
Reported-by: Anton D. Kachalov <mouse@yandex-team.ru>
Tested-by: Anton D. Kachalov <mouse@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[bzimage] Report exact initrd length via bzImage header
iPXE currently pads initrd images to a multiple of 4kB and inserts
zero padding between images, as required by some versions of the Linux
kernel. The overall length reported via the ramdisk_size field in the
bzImage header includes this zero padding.
This causes problems when using memdisk to load a gzip-compressed disk
image. memdisk treats the ramdisk_size field as containing the exact
length of the initrd image, and uses this length to locate the 8-byte
gzip footer. This will generally cause memdisk to fail to decompress
the disk image.
Fix by reporting the exact length of the initrd image set, including
any padding inserted between images but excluding any padding added at
the end of the final image.
Reported-by: Levente LEVAI <levail@aviatronic.hu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
iPXE currently advertises a fixed MSS of 1460, which is correct only
for IPv4 over Ethernet. For IPv6 over Ethernet, the value should be
1440 (allowing for the larger IPv6 header). For non-Ethernet link
layers, the value should reflect the MTU of the underlying network
device.
Use tcpip_mtu() to calculate the transport-layer MTU associated with
the peer address, and calculate the MSS to allow for an optionless TCP
header as per RFC 6691.
As a side benefit, we can now fail a connection immediately with a
meaningful error message if we have no route to the destination
address.
Reported-by: Anton D. Kachalov <mouse@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[tcpip] Provide tcpip_mtu() to determine the maximum transmission unit
Provide the function tcpip_mtu() to allow external code to determine
the (transport-layer) maximum transmission unit for a given socket
address.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[tcpip] Provide tcpip_netdev() to determine the transmitting network device
Provide the function tcpip_netdev() to allow external code to
determine the transmitting network device for a given socket address.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[prefix] Ignore PCI autoboot device location if set to 00:00.0
qemu can load an option ROM which is not associated with a particular
PCI device using the "-option-rom" syntax. Under these circumstances,
we should ignore the PCI bus:dev.fn address that we expect to find in
%ax on entry to the initialisation vector.
Fix by using the PCI bus:dev.fn address only if it is non-zero. Since
00:00.0 will always be the host bridge, it can never be the address of
a network card.
Reported-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[romprefix] Store boot bus:dev.fn address as autoboot device location
Per the BIOS Boot Specification, the initialization phase of the ROM
is called with the PFA (PCI Function Address) in the %ax register.
The intention is that the ROM code will store that device address
somewhere and use it for booting from that device when the Boot Entry
Vector (BEV) is called. iPXE does store the PFA, but doesn't use it
to select the boot network device. This renders BIOS IPL lists fairly
ineffective.
Fix by using the BBS-specified bus:dev.fn address as the autoboot
device location.
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Modified-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[autoboot] Enable infrastructure to specify an autoboot device location
iPXE will currently attempt to boot from every network device for
which it has a driver. Where a system has more than one network
device supported by iPXE, this renders BIOS IPL lists ineffective.
Allow an autoboot device location to be specified. If such a location
is specified, then only devices matching that location will be used as
part of the automatic boot sequence. If no such location is
specified, then all devices will be used.
Note that this does not affect the "autoboot" command, which will
continue to use all devices.
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Modified-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[romprefix] Allow ROM banner timeout to be configured independently
iPXE currently prints a "Press Ctrl-B" banner twice: once when the ROM
is first called for initialisation and again if we attempt to boot
from the ROM. This slows boot, especially when the NIC is not the
primary boot device. Tools such as libguestfs make use of QEMU VMs
for performing maintenance on disk images and may make use of NICs in
the VM for network support. If iPXE introduces a static init-time
delay, that directly translates to increased runtime for the tools.
Fix by allowing the ROM banner timeout to be configured independently
of the main banner timeout.
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Modified-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add support for parsing of URIs containing literal IPv6 addresses
(e.g. "http://[fe80::69ff:fe50:5845%25net0]/boot.ipxe").
Duplicate URIs by directly copying the relevant fields, rather than by
formatting and reparsing a URI string. This relaxes the requirements
on the URI formatting code and allows it to focus on generating
human-readable URIs (e.g. by not escaping ':' characters within
literal IPv6 addresses). As a side-effect, this allows relative URIs
containing parameter lists (e.g. "../boot.php##params") to function
as expected.
Add validity check for FTP paths to ensure that only printable
characters are accepted (since FTP is a human-readable line-based
protocol with no support for character escaping).
Construct TFTP next-server+filename URIs directly, rather than parsing
a constructed "tftp://..." string,
Add self-tests for URI functions.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Commit b5f5f73 ("[cmdline] Expand settings within each command-line
token individually") effectively rendered the "uristring" setting type
obsolete, since strings containing whitespace no longer break the
command line parser. The concept of the "uristring" type is not well
defined, since URI escaping rules depend on which portion of a URI is
being escaped.
Remove the "uristring" type, converting it into an alias for the
"string" setting type so as to avoid breaking existing scripts.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[dhcp] Copy exactly the required length when resizing DHCP options
When resizing DHCP options, iPXE currently calculates the length to be
copied by subtracting the destination pointer from the end of buffer
pointer. This works and guarantees not to write beyond the end of the
buffer, but may end up reading beyond the end of the buffer.
Fix by calculating the required length exactly.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[dns] Update end-of-name pointer after processing CNAME record
Commit d4c0226 ("[dns] Support DNS search lists") introduced a
regression when handling CNAME records resolving to names longer than
the original name. The "end of name" offset stored in dns->offset was
not updated to reflect the length of the new name, causing
dns_question() to append the (empty) search suffix at an incorrect
offset within the name buffer, resulting in a mangled DNS name.
In the case of a CNAME record resolving to a name shorter than or
equal in length to the original name, then the mangling would occur in
an unused portion of the name buffer. In the common case of a name
server returning the A (or AAAA) record along with the CNAME record,
this would cause name resolution to succeed despite the mangling. (If
the name server did not return the A or AAAA record along with the
CNAME record, then the mangling would be revealed by the subsequent
invalid query packet.)
Reported-by: Nicolas Sylvain <nsylvain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Update the DNS resolver to support DNS search lists (as provided by
DHCP option 119, DHCPv6 option 24, or NDP option 31).
Add validation code to ensure that parsing of DNS packets does not
overrun the input, get stuck in infinite loops, or (worse) write
beyond the end of allocated buffers.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[cmdline] Rename "console" command's --bpp option to --depth
Rename the "--bpp" option to "--depth", to free up the single-letter
option "-b" for "--bottom" in preparation for adding margin support.
This does not break backwards compatibility with documented features,
since the "console" command has not yet been documented.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[vesafb] Allow for an arbitrary margin around the text area
Allow for an arbitrary margin to be specified in the console
configuration. If the actual screen size does not match the requested
screen size, then update any margins specified so that they remain in
the same place relative to the requested screen size. If margins are
unspecified (i.e. zero), then leave them as zero.
The underlying assumption here is that any specified margins are
likely to describe an area within a background picture, and so should
remain in the same place relative to that background picture.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Centre the background picture on the console, to give a more
consistent result when the aspect ratio does not match the requested
width and height.
Once drawn for the first time, nothing should ever overwrite the
margins of the display. We can therefore eliminate the logic used to
redraw only the margin areas, and use much simpler code to draw the
complete initial background image.
Simplify the redrawing logic further by making the background picture
buffer equal in size to the frame buffer. In the common case of a
background picture which is designed to fill the screen, this wastes
no extra memory, and the combined code simplifications reduce the size
of fbcon.o by approximately 15%.
Redefine the concept of "margin" to match the intuitive definition
(i.e. the size of the gap, rather than the position of the boundary
line).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Fix incorrect calculation used to determine length of data to be
copied within a literal data block, and add a test case to prevent
this bug from going undetected in future.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[test] Add okx() macro taking an explicit file name and line number
Allow test reports to specify an explicit file name and line number
using the extended okx() macro. This allows large blocks of test
report code such as tcpip_random_ok() to be implemented as functions
rather than macros.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[vesafb] Set "magic" colour to transparent when a background picture is used
Use the magic colour facility to cause the user interface background
to become transparent when we have a background picture.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The magic basic colour can be remapped at runtime from COLOR_NORMAL_BG
(usually blue) to COLOR_DEFAULT (which will be transparent as a
background colour on the framebuffer console).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[console] Add centralised concept of colours and colour pairs
Add a centralised concept of colours and colour pairs (using the
default colour pairs as configured via config/colour.h). A colour
pair consists of a pair of colour indices.
Add the ability to redefine both a colour pair and an individual
colour index, with minimal overhead if this feature is not required
(e.g. because the relevant shell commands are not present in the
build).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown