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port-amd64/59121: x86 efiboot: bootinfo pointers truncated when mapped >4GB
>Number: 59121
>Category: port-amd64
>Synopsis: x86 efiboot: bootinfo pointers truncated when mapped >4GB
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: port-amd64-maintainer
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Mon Mar 03 15:20:00 +0000 2025
>Originator: Taylor R Campbell
>Release: current, 10, 9, ...
>Organization:
The NetEFI Over4Gdation
>Environment:
>Description:
On certain machines, the efiboot code is loaded into physical addresses >4GB. But efiboot puts them into a structure with only 32 bits:
31 struct bootinfo {
32 uint32_t nentries;
33 uint32_t entry[1];
34 };
https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/sys/arch/i386/stand/lib/bootinfo.h?r=1.12#31
49 bootinfo->entry[bootinfo->nentries++] = vtophys(what);
https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/sys/arch/i386/stand/lib/bootinfo.c?r=1.6#49
The kernel only accepts 32-bit addresses. And we already migrate the bootinfo to a safe space chosen by the libsa allocator (somewhere below EFI_ALLOCATE_MAX_ADDRESS, default 0x100000000, as returned by UEFI AllocatePages(EfiLoaderData, AllocateMaxAddress, ...) for whatever reason (efiboot program location gets unmapped or reused for something else by system firmware, presumably):
516 #ifdef EFIBOOT
517 /* Copy bootinfo to safe arena. */
518 for (i = 0; i < bootinfo->nentries; i++) {
519 struct btinfo_common *bi = (void *)(u_long)bootinfo->entry[i];
520 char *p = alloc(bi->len);
521 memcpy(p, bi, bi->len);
522 bootinfo->entry[i] = vtophys(p);
523 }
https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/sys/arch/i386/stand/lib/exec.c?r=1.81#516
But before then, the bootinfo->entry[i] paddrs are truncated to 32 bits.
[Originally reported by Vladimir `phcoder' Serbinenko: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2025/03/02/msg030102.html]
>How-To-Repeat:
boot NetBSD on a system that maps the efiboot program into physical addresses >4GB, like the darp10-b
>Fix:
Patch suggested by phcoder at https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2025/03/02/msg030102.html creates separate bootinfo and bootinfo32 structures:
- bootinfo is used internally by efiboot and records paddrs with uintptr_t (XXX do we not have paddr_t in the bootloader?)
- bootinfo32 is used to pass paddrs allocated in the safe arena to the kernel with uint32_t
However, it looks like this patch will break the non-efi bootloaders -- either the mapping from bootinfo to bootinfo32 needs to happen for all of them, or the bootinfo/bootinfo32 split needs to be conditional on EFIBOOT so that for non-EFIBOOT, bootinfo still uses uint32_t.
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