From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>,
Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>, Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>,
SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>, KP Singh <kpsingh@chromium.org>,
linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, selinux@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 18/19] firmware: Add request_partial_firmware_into_buf()
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 08:22:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5ha6zig7s6.wl-tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200729011739.GL4332@42.do-not-panic.com>
On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 03:17:39 +0200,
Luis Chamberlain wrote:
>
> Long ago Takashi had some points about this strategy breaking
> compressed file use. Was that considered?
As long as I read the patch, it tries to skip both the compressed and
the fallback loading when FW_OPT_PARTIAL is set, which is good.
However...
> > @@ -771,18 +805,20 @@ _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p, const char *name,
> > }
> >
> > ret = _request_firmware_prepare(&fw, name, device, buf, size,
> > - opt_flags);
> > + offset, opt_flags);
> > if (ret <= 0) /* error or already assigned */
> > goto out;
> >
> > ret = fw_get_filesystem_firmware(device, fw->priv, "", NULL);
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_FW_LOADER_COMPRESS
> > - if (ret == -ENOENT)
> > +
> > + /* Only full reads can support decompression, platform, and sysfs. */
> > + if (!(opt_flags & FW_OPT_PARTIAL))
> > + nondirect = true;
> > +
> > + if (ret == -ENOENT && nondirect)
> > ret = fw_get_filesystem_firmware(device, fw->priv, ".xz",
> > fw_decompress_xz);
> > -#endif
... by dropping this ifdef, the fw loader would try to access *.xz
file unnecessarily even if CONFIG_FW_LOADER_COMPRESS is disabled.
thanks,
Takashi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-29 6:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-24 21:36 [PATCH v3 00/19] Introduce partial kernel_read_file() support Kees Cook
2020-07-24 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 01/19] test_firmware: Test platform fw loading on non-EFI systems Kees Cook
2020-07-24 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 02/19] selftest/firmware: Add selftest timeout in settings Kees Cook
2020-07-24 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 03/19] firmware_loader: EFI firmware loader must handle pre-allocated buffer Kees Cook
2020-07-25 10:07 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-25 15:50 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-25 17:20 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-24 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 04/19] fs/kernel_read_file: Remove FIRMWARE_PREALLOC_BUFFER enum Kees Cook
2020-07-27 13:35 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-07-24 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 05/19] fs/kernel_read_file: Remove FIRMWARE_EFI_EMBEDDED enum Kees Cook
2020-07-24 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 06/19] fs/kernel_read_file: Split into separate include file Kees Cook
2020-07-27 14:41 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-07-24 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 07/19] fs/kernel_read_file: Split into separate source file Kees Cook
2020-07-27 14:53 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-07-24 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 08/19] fs/kernel_read_file: Remove redundant size argument Kees Cook
2020-07-27 16:29 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-07-24 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 09/19] fs/kernel_read_file: Switch buffer size arg to size_t Kees Cook
2020-07-27 16:29 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-07-24 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 10/19] fs/kernel_read_file: Add file_size output argument Kees Cook
2020-07-27 16:29 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-07-24 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 11/19] LSM: Introduce kernel_post_load_data() hook Kees Cook
2020-07-27 10:49 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-07-28 19:41 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-24 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 12/19] firmware_loader: Use security_post_load_data() Kees Cook
2020-07-27 10:57 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-07-28 19:43 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-29 16:29 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-07-29 18:10 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-07-29 19:13 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-24 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 13/19] module: Call security_kernel_post_load_data() Kees Cook
2020-07-24 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 14/19] LSM: Add "contents" flag to kernel_read_file hook Kees Cook
2020-07-24 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 15/19] IMA: Add support for file reads without contents Kees Cook
2020-07-27 13:23 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-07-28 19:44 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-28 19:56 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-28 20:12 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-24 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 16/19] fs/kernel_file_read: Add "offset" arg for partial reads Kees Cook
2020-07-24 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 17/19] firmware: Store opt_flags in fw_priv Kees Cook
2020-07-24 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 18/19] firmware: Add request_partial_firmware_into_buf() Kees Cook
2020-07-29 1:17 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-07-29 6:22 ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
2020-07-29 17:43 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-24 21:36 ` [PATCH v3 19/19] test_firmware: Test partial read support Kees Cook
2020-07-25 5:14 ` [PATCH v3 00/19] Introduce partial kernel_read_file() support Scott Branden
2020-07-25 10:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-25 15:48 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-27 11:16 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-07-27 19:18 ` Scott Branden
2020-07-28 18:48 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-07-28 19:56 ` Scott Branden
2020-07-29 1:19 ` Luis Chamberlain
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