[pxe] Warn about PXE NBPs that may be EFI executables
A relatively common user mistake is to attempt to boot an EFI
executable (such as grub.efi) using a BIOS version of iPXE.
Unfortunately there are no signature checks that we can use to
unambiguously identify a PXE NBP, since a PXE NBP is just raw machine
code. We therefore have to accept anything sufficiently small to fit
into base memory as a valid PXE NBP.
We can detect that a file might be an EFI executable by checking for
the initial "MZ" signature bytes. This does not necessarily preclude
the file from also being a PXE NBP (since it would be possible to
create a hybrid binary which acts as both an EFI executable and a PXE
NBP, similar to the way in which wimboot and the Linux kernel are
hybrid binaries which act as both an EFI executable and a bzImage).
If the initial "MZ" signature bytes are present, then attempt to warn
the user by setting the image type to "PXE-NBP (may be EFI?)". We
can't (sensibly) prevent the user from accidentally running an EFI
executable as a PXE NBP, but we can at least make it easier for the
user to identify their mistake.
Inspired-by: Robin Smidsrød <robin@smidsrod.no>
Inspired-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[comboot] Avoid dragging in serial console support unconditionally
When the ability for iPXE to handle multiple serial ports was added,
the choice was made that the singular serial port referred to by
COMBOOT calls should mean the port used for the serial console. This
unintentionally caused IMAGE_COMBOOT to also enable CONSOLE_SERIAL.
Fix by providing a weak-symbol version of the serial console which
will be used if serial console support was not explicitly enabled.
Reported-by: Torgeir Wulfsberg <Torgeir.Wulfsberg@kongsberg.com>
Reported-by: Ján ONDREJ (SAL) <ondrejj@salstar.sk>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
We do not set up any kind of virtual addressing before invoking an
ELFBoot image. Reject if the image's program headers indicate that
virtual addresses are not equal to physical addresses.
This avoids problems when loading some RHEL5 kernels, which seem to
include ELFBoot headers using virtual addressing. With this change,
these kernels are no longer detected as ELFBoot, and so may be
(correctly) detected as bzImage instead.
Reported-by: Torgeir.Wulfsberg@kongsberg.com
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Expose the high bit of the VGA text attribute byte via the ANSI SGR
parameters 5 ("blink on") and 25 ("blink off").
Note that some video cards (and virtual machines) may display a high
intensity background colour instead of blinking text.
Signed-off-by: Christian Nilsson <nikize@gmail.com>
Modified-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[pxe] Always reconstruct packet for PXENV_GET_CACHED_INFO
Avoid accidentally returning stale packets (e.g. for a previously
attempted network device) by always constructing a fresh DHCP packet.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[mromprefix] Report a dummy size at offset 0x02 of .mrom payload
The size of the .mrom payload (the second PCI ROM image) is defined in
its PCI header. The code type for the .mrom payload image is
deliberately set to an invalid value (0xff) to ensure that no BIOS
tries to parse anything in the image other than the PCI header.
Since the code type is not set to 0x00 ("Intel x86, PC-AT
compatible"), bytes 0x02-0x17 should not be interpreted by the BIOS as
being in the standard ISA expansion ROM format. In particular, the
byte at offset 0x02 does not represent the length of the ROM image (in
512-byte blocks).
However, some Dell BIOSes seem to erroneously use the byte at offset
0x02 to determine the length of the .mrom payload when walking the
list of PCI ROM images. Since this byte is currently set to zero,
this can lead to the BIOS getting stuck in an infinite loop during
POST. (This problem may not arise if the .mrom payload is the final
image in the ROM, since the BIOS will then have no reason to attempt
to locate the next image.)
One possible workaround would be to put the real payload size in this
byte, but doing so would constrain the .mrom payload size to 128kB
(see commit 8049a52 ("[mromprefix] Allow for .mrom images larger than
128kB") for more details).
Another possible workaround would be to put the real payload size as a
word in bytes 0x02-0x03 (as is done for EFI ROMs). This would not
constrain the .mrom payload size, but a payload size which happened to
be exactly 128kB would result in a zero value in the byte at offset
0x02 and so could still result in infinite loops on BIOSes with this
bug.
We choose to place a fixed value of 0x01 in the byte at offset 0x02.
This should at least prevent the BIOS from getting stuck in an
infinite loop. (The BIOS may walk into the middle of the .mrom
payload, where it will almost certainly not find a valid {0x55,0xaa}
signature or a valid PCIR header, and will therefore hopefully abort
processing.)
Reported-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some HP BIOSes (observed with an HP ProLiant m710p Server Cartridge)
have a bug in the implementation of INT 1a,b101: they blithely assume
that real-mode code is able to read from anywhere in the 32-bit memory
space.
This problem affects the call to INT 1a,b101 made from within
pcibios_num_bus() (which uses REAL_CODE() and hence executes in
genuine real mode) but does not affect the call made from within
romprefix.S (since with a PMM BIOS, that call executes in flat real
mode anyway).
Work around the problem by explicitly calling flatten_real_mode()
before invoking INT 1a,b101. This is a rarely-used code path, and so
the extra overhead of emulating instructions in some VM configurations
(see commit 6d4deee ("[librm] Use genuine real mode to accelerate
operation in virtual machines") for more details) is negligible.
Reported-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Debugged-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Debugged-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[int13con] Add basic ability to log to a local disk via INT 13
Several popular public cloud providers do not provide any sensible
mechanism for obtaining debug output from an OS which is failing to
boot. For example, Amazon EC2 provides the "Get System Log" facility,
which occasionally deigns to report a random subset of the characters
emitted via the VM's serial port, but usually returns only a blank
screen. (Amazingly, this is still superior to the debugging
facilities provided by Azure.)
Work around these shortcomings by adding a console type which sends
output to a magically detected raw disk partition, and including such
a partition within any iPXE .usb-format image.
To use this facility:
- build an iPXE .usb image with CONSOLE_INT13 enabled
- boot the cloud VM from this image
- after the boot fails, attach the VM's boot disk to a second VM
- from this second VM, use "less -f -R /dev/sdb3" (or similar) to
view the iPXE output.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[pci] Provide PCI_CLASS() to calculate a scalar PCI class value
Rename PCI_CLASS() (which constructs a struct pci_class_id) to
PCI_CLASS_ID(), and provide PCI_CLASS() as a macro which constructs
the 24-bit scalar value of a PCI class code.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The assembler on OpenBSD 5.7 seems not to correctly handle the
combinations of .struct and .previous used in unlzma.S, and ends up
complaining about an "attempt to allocate data in absolute section".
Work around this problem by explicitly resetting the section after the
data structure definitions.
Reported-by: Jiri B <jirib@devio.us>
Tested-by: Jiri B <jirib@devio.us>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[build] Allow building PCI ROMs with device ID lists
PCI v3.0 supports a "device list" which allows the ROM to claim
support for multiple PCI device IDs (but only a single vendor ID).
Add support for building such ROMs by scanning the build target
element list and incorporating any device IDs into the ROM's device
list header. For example:
make bin/8086153a--8086153b.mrom
would build a ROM claiming support for both 8086:153a and 8086:153b.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[romprefix] Allow autoboot device filter to be disabled
Our current behaviour when booting as a ROM is to autoboot only from
devices which are attached via the PCI bus:dev.fn address passed to
the ROM's initialisation vector.
Add a build configuration option AUTOBOOT_ROM_FILTER (enabled by
default) to control this behaviour. This allows for ROMs to be built
which will attempt to boot from any detected device, even if not
attached via the original PCI bus:dev.fn address. (This is
particularly useful when building combined EHCI/xHCI ROMs for USB
network boot, since the BIOS may request a boot via the EHCI
controller but the xHCI driver will reroute the root hub ports to the
xHCI controller.)
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Commit 8ab4b00 ("[libc] Rewrite setjmp() and longjmp()") introduced a
regression in which the saved values of %ebx, %esi, and %edi were all
accidentally restored into %esp. The result is that the second and
subsequent returns from setjmp() would effectively corrupt %ebx, %esi,
%edi, and the stack pointer %esp.
Use of setjmp() and longjmp() is generally discouraged: our only use
occurs as part of the implementation of PXENV_RESTART_TFTP, since the
PXE API effectively mandates its use here. The call to setjmp()
occurs at the start of pxe_start_nbp(), where there are almost
certainly no values held in %ebx, %esi, or %edi. The corruption of
these registers therefore had no visible effect on program execution.
The corruption of %esp would have been visible on return from
pxe_start_nbp(), but there are no known PXE NBPs which first call
PXENV_RESTART_TFTP and subsequently attempt to return to the PXE base
code. The effect on program execution was therefore similar to that
of moving the stack to a pseudo-random location in the 32-bit address
space; this will often allow execution to complete successfully since
there is a high chance that the pseudo-random location will be unused.
The regression therefore went undetected for around one month.
Fix by restoring the correct registers from the saved jmp_buf
structure.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[legal] Relicense files under GPL2_OR_LATER_OR_UBDL
Several of the assembly files in arch/i386/prefix were missed by the
automated relicensing tool due to missing licence declarations, code
dating back to the initial git revision, etc. Manual review shows
that these files may be relicensed.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[legal] Relicense files under GPL2_OR_LATER_OR_UBDL
Relicense files with kind permission from
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
alongside the contributors who have already granted such relicensing
permission.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
At some point in the past few years, binutils became more aggressive
at removing unused symbols. To function as a symbol requirement, a
relocation record must now be in a section marked with @progbits and
must not be in a section which gets discarded during the link (either
via --gc-sections or via /DISCARD/).
Update REQUIRE_SYMBOL() to generate relocation records meeting these
criteria. To minimise the impact upon the final binary size, we use
existing symbols (specified via the REQUIRING_SYMBOL() macro) as the
relocation targets where possible. We use R_386_NONE or R_X86_64_NONE
relocation types to prevent any actual unwanted relocation taking
place. Where no suitable symbol exists for REQUIRING_SYMBOL() (such
as in config.c), the macro PROVIDE_REQUIRING_SYMBOL() can be used to
generate a one-byte-long symbol to act as the relocation target.
If there are versions of binutils for which this approach fails, then
the fallback will probably involve killing off REQUEST_SYMBOL(),
redefining REQUIRE_SYMBOL() to use the current definition of
REQUEST_SYMBOL(), and postprocessing the linked ELF file with
something along the lines of "nm -u | wc -l" to check that there are
no undefined symbols remaining.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[legal] Relicense files under GPL2_OR_LATER_OR_UBDL
These files cannot be automatically relicensed by util/relicense.pl
since they either contain unusual but trivial contributions (such as
the addition of __nonnull function attributes), or contain lines
dating back to the initial git revision (and so require manual
knowledge of the code's origin).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[zbin] Fix check for existence of most recent output byte
The code in lzma_literal() checks to see if we are at the start of the
compressed input data in order to determine whether or not a most
recent output byte exists. This check is incorrect, since
initialisation of the decompressor will always consume the first five
bytes of the compressed input data.
Fix by instead checking whether or not we are at the start of the
output data stream. This is, in any case, a more logical check.
This issue was masked during development and testing since virtual
machines tend to zero the initial contents of RAM; the spuriously-read
"most recent output byte" is therefore likely to already be a zero
when running in a virtual machine.
Reported-by: Robin Smidsrød <robin@smidsrod.no>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[zbin] Allow decompressor to generate debug output via BIOS console
The 0xe9 debug port exists only on virtual machines. Provide an
option to print debug output on the BIOS console, to allow for
debugging on real hardware.
Note that this option can be used only if the decompressor is called
in flat real mode; the easiest way to achieve this is to build with
DEBUG=libprefix.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[prefix] Call decompressor in flat real mode when DEBUG=libprefix is enabled
Allow the decompressor the option of generating debugging output via
the BIOS console by calling it in flat real mode (rather than 16-bit
protected mode) when libprefix.S is built with debugging enabled.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[zbin] Perform extra normalisation after completing decompression
LZMA performs an extra normalisation after decompression is complete,
which does not affect the output but may consume an extra byte from
the input (and so may affect which byte is identified as being the
start of the next block).
Reported-by: Robin Smidsrød <robin@smidsrod.no>
Tested-by: Robin Smidsrød <robin@smidsrod.no>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
LZMA provides significantly better compression (by ~15%) than the
current NRV2B algorithm.
We use a raw LZMA stream (aka LZMA1) to avoid the need for code to
parse the LZMA2 block headers. We use parameters {lc=2,lp=0,pb=0} to
reduce the stack space required by the decompressor to acceptable
levels (around 8kB). Using lc=3 or pb=2 would give marginally better
compression, but at the cost of substantially increasing the required
stack space.
The build process now requires the liblzma headers to be present on
the build system, since we do not include a copy of an LZMA compressor
within the iPXE source tree. The decompressor is written from scratch
(based on XZ Embedded) and is entirely self-contained within the
iPXE source.
The branch-call-jump (BCJ) filter used to improve the compressibility
is specific to iPXE. We choose not to use liblzma's built-in BCJ
filter since the algorithm is complex and undocumented. Our BCJ
filter achieves approximately the same results (on typical iPXE
binaries) with a substantially simpler algorithm.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[prefix] Use .bss16 as temporary stack space for calls to install_block
Some decompression algorithms (e.g. LZMA) require large amounts of
temporary stack space, which may not be made available by all
prefixes. Use .bss16 as a temporary stack for the duration of the
calls to install_block (switching back to the external stack before we
start making calls into code which might access variables in .bss16),
and allow the decompressor to define a global symbol to force a
minimum value on the size of .bss16.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[timer] Rewrite the 8254 Programmable Interval Timer support
The 8254 timer code (used to implement udelay()) has an unknown
provenance. Rewrite this code to avoid potential licensing
uncertainty.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[build] Apply the "-fno-PIE -nopie" workaround only to i386 builds
Hardened versions of gcc default to building position-independent
code, which breaks our i386 build. Our build process therefore
detects such platforms and automatically adds "-fno-PIE -nopie" to the
gcc command line.
On x86_64, we choose to build position-independent code (in order to
reduce the final binary size and, in particular, the number of
relocations required for UEFI binaries). The workaround therefore
breaks the build process for x86_64 binaries on such platforms.
Fix by moving the workaround to the i386-specific portion of the
Makefile.
Reported-by: Jan Kundrát <jkt@kde.org>
Debugged-by: Jan Kundrát <jkt@kde.org>
Debugged-by: Marin Hannache <git@mareo.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[build] Use PRODUCT_SHORT_NAME for end-user visible strings
Use PRODUCT_SHORT_NAME instead of a hardcoded "iPXE" for strings which
are typically shown in the user interface.
Note that this only allows for customisation of the user interface.
Where the "iPXE" string serves a technical purpose (such as in the
HTTP User-Agent), the string cannot be customised.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[pxe] Maintain a queue for received PXE UDP packets
Some devices return multiple packets in a single poll. Handle such
devices gracefully by enqueueing received PXE UDP packets (along with
a pseudo-header to hold the IPv4 addresses and port numbers) and
dequeueing them on subsequent calls to PXENV_UDP_READ.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[tftp] Explicitly abort connection whenever parent interface is closed
Fetching the TFTP file size is currently implemented via a custom
"tftpsize://" protocol hack. Generalise this approach to instead
close the TFTP connection whenever the parent data-transfer interface
is closed.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Allow drivers to specify a supported PCI class code. To save space in
the final binary, make this an attribute of the driver rather than an
attribute of a PCI device ID list entry.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[build] Use -malign-double to build 32-bit UEFI binaries
The EDK2 codebase uses -malign-double for 32-bit builds, which causes
64-bit integers to be naturally aligned. This affects the layout of
some structures (including EFI_BLOCK_IO_MEDIA).
This mirrors wimboot commit 7b8f39d ("[build] Fix building of 32-bit
UEFI version").
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[mromprefix] Allow for .mrom images larger than 128kB
The .mrom payload has a code type of 0xff and so the initialisation
length field (single byte at offset 0x02) does not need to be
present. Use only the PCI header's image length field, which allows
the .mrom payload to be up to 32MB in size.
Inspired-by: Swift Geek <swiftgeek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[mromprefix] Use PCI length field to obtain length of individual images
mromprefix.S currently uses the initialisation length field (single
byte at offset 0x02) to determine the length of a ROM image within a
multi-image ROM BAR. For PCI ROM images with a code type other than
0, the initialisation length field may not be present.
Fix by using the PCI header's image length field instead.
Inspired-by: Swift Geek <swiftgeek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown