10796 Commits

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Michał Grzelak
eba6bdcd3a configure: Fix SDL2 typo by referencing value
During configuration of SDL2, variable enable_grub_emu_sdl2 is checked
whether to throw an error message. However, error could not happen
because two unequal strings were compared. Fix this by referencing
value of enable_grub_emu_sdl2, not name.

Fixes: 17d6ac1a7 (emu: Add SDL2 support)

Signed-off-by: Michał Grzelak <mchl.grzlk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
2023-08-14 17:19:51 +02:00
Glenn Washburn
459f028cd3 docs: Add missing assumption
Also reword a prior sentence to be more clear.

Fixes: 5a3d2b4742df (docs: Add debugging chapter to development documentation)

Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
Reviewed-by: Oskari Pirhonen <xxc3ncoredxx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-08-14 17:16:53 +02:00
Oskari Pirhonen
e641b4ab32 util/grub.d/25_bli.in: Fix shebang on unmerged-usr
On an unmerged-usr system, grub-mkconfig errors out with the following
error due to /usr/bin/sh not existing:

  /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig: /etc/grub.d/25_bli: /usr/bin/sh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Use a /bin/sh shebang to fix the error as well as match the other
existing files.

Fixes: 158a6583e (util/grub.d/25_bli.in: Activate bli module on EFI)

Signed-off-by: Oskari Pirhonen <xxc3ncoredxx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Oliver Steffen <osteffen@redhat.com>
2023-08-14 17:11:55 +02:00
Glenn Washburn
7f6149449c tests/util/grub-shell-luks-tester: Allow GRUB_SHELL_LUKS_DEFAULT_DEBUG and GRUB_TEST_DEFAULT_DEBUG to specify the debug level to grub-shell
Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-08-14 17:08:09 +02:00
Glenn Washburn
e1b97d7c37 tests/util/grub-shell: Allow setting the value of debug regardless of its previous state
This allows an invocation of grub-shell to set the value of debug regardless
of the global default environment variable GRUB_SHELL_DEFAULT_DEBUG.

Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-08-14 17:06:28 +02:00
Glenn Washburn
76e8962e85 tests/util/grub-shell: Allow setting default timeout via GRUB_SHELL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT envvar
Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-08-14 17:01:13 +02:00
Glenn Washburn
79ccfa90a1 tests/util/grub-shell: Add --verbose to grub-mkrescue when $debug is greater than 2
Since this is fairly verbose output, do not enable first level of debug
is turned on.

Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-08-14 16:58:15 +02:00
Daniel Kiper
7a994c87f5 Release 2.12~rc1
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-07-10 17:43:48 +02:00
Daniel Kiper
6425c12cd7 efi: Fallback to legacy mode if shim is loaded on x86 archs
The LoadImage() provided by the shim does not consult MOK when loading
an image. So, simply signature verification fails when it should not.
This means we cannot use Linux EFI stub to start the kernel when the
shim is loaded. We have to fallback to legacy mode on x86 architectures.
This is not possible on other architectures due to lack of legacy mode.

This is workaround which should disappear when the shim provides
LoadImage() which looks up MOK during signature verification.

On the occasion align constants in include/grub/efi/sb.h.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
2023-07-03 14:29:22 +02:00
Daniel Kiper
7082a5ca8a efi: Drop __grub_efi_api attribute from shim_lock->verify() function
... because (surprisingly) it does not use specific EFI calling convention...

Fixes: 6a080b9cd (efi: Add calling convention annotation to all prototypes)

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
2023-07-03 14:27:12 +02:00
Samuel Thibault
d6aac785c0 templates: Start pci-arbiter before acpi on Hurd
acpi actually needs to access PCI, while pci-arbiter will not be making
use of ACPI, so we need to start acpi first.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-07-03 14:24:09 +02:00
Michał Grzelak
b9b9705fbd configure.ac: Fix typo by adding missing $
During configuration of SDL, variable enable_grub_emu_sdl is checked
whether to throw an error message. However, error could not happen
because two unequal strings were compared. Fix this by referencing
value of enable_grub_emu_sdl, not name.

Fixes: 17d6ac1a7 (emu: Add SDL2 support)

Signed-off-by: Michał Grzelak <mchl.grzlk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-07-03 14:15:44 +02:00
Glenn Washburn
11bc42b41e docs: Minor corrections
When referring to initrd16 the link for initrd16 should be used, not a link
for initrd. Also, correct the spelling of additionally and add a comma after
it to correct its grammatical usage.

Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-07-03 14:13:32 +02:00
Glenn Washburn
6dd3857c22 kern/misc: Add space after comma in function argument list
Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-07-03 14:11:29 +02:00
Glenn Washburn
1c9c930320 commands/regexp: Fix typo
Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-07-03 14:10:01 +02:00
Glenn Washburn
712309eaae term/serial: Use grub_strncpy() instead of grub_snprintf() when only copying string
Using grub_strncpy() instead of grub_snprintf() is less overhead and
indicates clearly that the dest should be the same string as the source.

Also fix indentation.

Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-07-03 14:07:49 +02:00
Glenn Washburn
7c1a022d78 loader/linux: Print debug message for each generated newc path generated
Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-07-03 14:02:33 +02:00
Glenn Washburn
bd04ff8fd9 include/grub/types.h: Add PRI*GRUB_OFFSET and PRI*GRUB_DISK_ADDR
These are currently always the same as PRI*GRUB_UINT64_T, but they may
not be in the future.

Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-07-03 13:54:27 +02:00
Glenn Washburn
9ea4bf08e2 kern/misc: Support octal printf format code
Also add parenthesis to nested ternary operator to improve clarity.

Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-07-03 13:44:44 +02:00
Glenn Washburn
fb1f897373 gitignore: Ignore python bytecode files
Python bytecode files, which end in .pyc, may be generated by the build
system as needed and should not go into the git repository.

Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-07-03 13:41:32 +02:00
Glenn Washburn
16b09cd056 loader/linux: Only emit newc directory once
When creating at runtime a newc initrd via arguments to initrd with "newc:"
prefixes, only emit a directory path record once. The original code
intended to do that by bailing out of emitting the record when the record
to be created matches an existing record. However, this does not happen
because grub_memcmp() is improperly checked.

Generating duplicate newc directory records does not cause any problems
because the Linux unpacker will skip it once it sees the directory already
exists. This fix saves a little processing and makes the generated newc
cpio archive a little smaller.

Fixes: 92750e4c60 (Add ability to generate newc additions on runtime.)

Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-07-03 13:36:10 +02:00
Glenn Washburn
931a912b43 loader/efi/linux: Fix formatting and remove unneeded parenthesis
Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-07-03 13:31:15 +02:00
Glenn Washburn
64395c5ab2 loader/efi/linux: Print EFI status as hex number instead of uint
EFI status codes are of different classes depending on the first byte and
all error status codes defined in appendix D of the main spec start from
1 and have the high bit set. When printing as a uint, the decimal is a very
large number that needs have the high bit cleared get the spec error code.
This can be easily visually done by a human if the number is printed as hex.

Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-07-03 13:29:28 +02:00
Oskari Pirhonen
8fa86d2e29 docs: Minor edits to debugging chapter
Small set of wording and grammatical edits which did not make it in time
for the original review of the chapter.

Signed-off-by: Oskari Pirhonen <xxc3ncoredxx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-07-03 13:19:38 +02:00
Daniel Kiper
9dbfbcd660 lib/relocator: Fix OOB write when initializing lo->freebytes[]
Fixes: CID 96636

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>
2023-06-23 00:50:39 +02:00
Daniel Kiper
5658f35af9 lib/relocator: Enforce GRUB_RELOCATOR_FIRMWARE_REQUESTS_QUANT divisibility by 8
Most of leftover code blindly assumes GRUB_RELOCATOR_FIRMWARE_REQUESTS_QUANT
divisibility by 8. So, enforce this at compile time.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>
2023-06-23 00:50:38 +02:00
Julian Andres Klode
17d6ac1a7d emu: Add SDL2 support
So all we did with the surface in SDL1 was split into window,
surface, renderer and texture. Instead of drawing into the
surface and then flipping, you build your pixels, then update
a texture and then copy the texture to the renderer.

Here we use an empty RGB surface to hold our pixels, which enables
us to keep most of the code the same. The SDL1 code has been adjusted
to refer to "surface" instead of "window" when trying to access the
properties of the surface.

This approaches the configuration by adding a new --enable-grub-emu-sdl2
argument. If set to yes, or auto detected, it disables SDL1 support
automatically.

This duplicates the sdl module block in Makefile.core.def which may
be something to be aware of, but we also don't want to build separate
module.

Fixes: https://bugs.debian.org/1038035

Signed-off-by: Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-06-23 00:50:38 +02:00
Julian Andres Klode
d131335d4e emu: SDL style fixes
These should be quite obvious and will make the SDL2 patch easier
to read then doing it inline there.

Signed-off-by: Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-06-23 00:50:38 +02:00
Michał Grzelak
afdef4a563 tpm: Enable boot despite unknown firmware failure
Currently booting the system is prevented when call to EFI firmware
hash_log_extend_event() returns unknown error. Solve this by following
convention used in commit a4356538d (commands/tpm: Don't propagate
measurement failures to the verifiers layer).

Let the system to be bootable by default when unknown TPM error is
encountered. Check environment variable tpm_fail_fatal to fallback to
previous behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Michał Grzelak <mchl.grzlk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-06-23 00:50:38 +02:00
Daniel Kiper
5c7578e727 bootstrap: Fix patching warnings
Currently bootstrap complains in the following way when
patching gnulib files:

  patching file argp-help.c
  Hunk #1 succeeded at 52 (offset 1 line).
  Hunk #2 succeeded at 1548 (offset 115 lines).
  patching file mbswidth.c
  patching file mbswidth.h
  Hunk #1 succeeded at 40 (offset -5 lines).

Let's fix it by amending line numbers in the patch.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Alec Brown <alec.r.brown@oracle.com>
2023-06-23 00:50:38 +02:00
Daniel Kiper
6d8853e215 efi: Add missing __grub_efi_api attributes
The commit bb4aa6e06 (efi: Drop all uses of efi_call_XX() wrappers) did
not add some __grub_efi_api attributes to the EFI calls. Lack of them
led to hangs on x86_64-efi target. So, let's add missing __grub_efi_api
attributes.

Fixes: bb4aa6e06 (efi: Drop all uses of efi_call_XX() wrappers)

Reported-by: Christian Hesse <list@eworm.de>
Reported-by: Robin Candau <antiz@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Robin Candau <antiz@archlinux.org>
Tested-by: Christian Hesse <list@eworm.de>
Reviewed-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
2023-06-23 00:50:38 +02:00
Julian Andres Klode
b2c72f4641 disk: Generalize MD_MAX_DISKS to GRUB_MDRAID_MAX_DISKS
Move the constant from grub-core/osdep/linux/getroot.c to
include/grub/disk.h and then reuse it in place of the
hardcoded 1024 limit in diskfilter.

Fixes: 2a5e3c1f2 (disk/diskfilter: Don't make a RAID array with more than 1024 disks)

Cc: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-06-23 00:50:38 +02:00
Xiaotian Wu
87247635c0 loongarch: Disable relaxation relocations
A working GRUB cannot be built with upcoming binutils and GCC, because linker
relaxation was added [1] causing new unsupported relocations to appear in modules.

So we pass -mno-relax to GCC if it is supported, to disable relaxation and make
GRUB forward-compatible with new toolchains.

While similar code already exists for sparc64 in configure.ac, sparc64 sets
LDFLAGS while LoongArch requires CFLAGS to be set. If we only set LDFLAGS on
LoongArch, GCC will still generate relaxation relocations in the .o files, so
the sparc64 code cannot be reused.

[1] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=56576f4a722b7398d35802ecf7d4185c27d6d69b

Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Wu <wuxiaotian@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-06-23 00:50:38 +02:00
Xiaotian Wu
857af0e17b loongarch: Add ELF relocation types documentation and comments
See https://github.com/loongson/la-abi-specs/blob/release/laelf.adoc#relocations

Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Wu <wuxiaotian@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-06-13 16:00:39 +02:00
Xiaotian Wu
22a6f8a482 loongarch: Rename function names
According to the relocation documentation, the following function names are
renamed to show their exact meaning:
  - from grub_loongarch64_xxx64_hi12() to grub_loongarch64_abs64_hi12(),
  - from grub_loongarch64_xxx64_hi12() to grub_loongarch64_abs64_lo20().

Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Wu <wuxiaotian@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-06-13 16:00:39 +02:00
Xiaotian Wu
1385254f17 util/grub-mkimagexx: Optimize code using pc variable
We already have the pc variable, no need to calculate it again.

Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Wu <wuxiaotian@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-06-13 16:00:39 +02:00
Xiaotian Wu
985631c3d9 kern/{arm64,loongarch64}/dl_helper: Use the correct format specifier for formatted output
Use PRIxGRUB_INT64_T format specifier for grub_int64_t type
and drop redundant casts.

Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Wu <wuxiaotian@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-06-13 16:00:39 +02:00
Qiumiao Zhang
4fb58cf0af kern/acpi: Use xsdt_addr if present
According to the ACPI specification, in ACPI 2.0 or later, an
ACPI-compatible OS must use the XSDT if present. So, we should
use xsdt_addr instead of rsdt_addr if xsdt_addr is valid.

Signed-off-by: Qiumiao Zhang <zhangqiumiao1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-06-13 16:00:39 +02:00
Qiumiao Zhang
b2b477e6b2 commands/acpi: Use xsdt_addr if present
According to the ACPI specification, in ACPI 2.0 or later, an
ACPI-compatible OS must use the XSDT if present. So, we should
use xsdt_addr instead of rsdt_addr if xsdt_addr is valid.

Signed-off-by: Qiumiao Zhang <zhangqiumiao1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-06-13 15:59:18 +02:00
Lidong Chen
a24ea9241c fs/udf: Fix out of bounds access
Implemented a boundary check before advancing the allocation
descriptors pointer.

Signed-off-by: Lidong Chen <lidong.chen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-06-13 14:48:38 +02:00
Glenn Washburn
5a3d2b4742 docs: Add debugging chapter to development documentation
Debugging GRUB can be tricky and require arcane knowledge. This will
help those unfamiliar with the process to get started debugging GRUB
with less effort.

Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-06-13 14:28:34 +02:00
Darren Kenny
ef7850c757 fs/xfs: Fix issues found while fuzzing the XFS filesystem
While performing fuzz testing with XFS filesystem images with ASAN
enabled, several issues were found where the memory accesses are made
beyond the data that is allocated into the struct grub_xfs_data
structure's data field.

The existing structure didn't store the size of the memory allocated into
the buffer in the data field and had no way to check it. To resolve these
issues, the data size is stored to enable checks into the data buffer.

With these checks in place, the fuzzing corpus no longer cause any crashes.

Signed-off-by: Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Robbie Harwood <rharwood@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marta Lewandowska <mlewando@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lidong Chen <lidong.chen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-06-13 14:26:47 +02:00
Alexander Kanavin
4ffe6391ca util/import_unicode.py: Ensure output is deterministic
Ensure the generated unidata.c file is deterministic by sorting the
keys of the dict.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-06-13 14:16:08 +02:00
Alexander Kanavin
87648e9c12 grub-core/genmoddep.awk: Ensure output is deterministic
The output in moddep.lst generated from syminfo.lst using genmoddep.awk
is not deterministic since the order of the dependencies on each line
can vary depending on how awk sorts the values in the array.

Be deterministic in the output by sorting the dependencies on each line.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-06-13 14:12:07 +02:00
Alexander Kanavin
ab2aeda76c gentpl.py: Ensure output is deterministic
The output of the SOURCES lines in grub-core/Makefile.core.am, generated
from grub-core/Makefile.core.def with gentpl.py is not deterministic due to
missing sorting of the list used to generate it. Add such a sort.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-06-13 14:08:09 +02:00
Glenn Washburn
c016a969d1 gdb: Add gdbinfo command for printing the load address of the EFI application
EFI firmware determines where to load the GRUB EFI at runtime, and so the
addresses of debug symbols are not known ahead of time. There is a command
defined in the gdb_grub script which will load the debug symbols at the
appropriate addresses, if given the application load address for GRUB.
So add a command named "gdbinfo" to allow the user to print this GDB command
string with the application load address on-demand. For the outputted GDB
command to have any effect when entered into a GDB session, GDB should have
been started with the script as an argument to the -x option or sourced into
an active GDB session before running the outputted command.

Documentation for the gdbinfo command is also added.

Co-developed-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-06-01 12:10:04 +02:00
Glenn Washburn
db1d70f2f3 loader/efi/chainloader: Do not require a $root visible to EFI firmware when chainloading
The EFI chainloader checks that a device path can be created for the $root
device before allowing chainloading to a given file. This is probably to
ensure that the given file can be accessed and loaded by the firmware.
However, since GRUB is loading the image itself, the firmware need not
be able to access the file location of the image. So remove this check.

Also, this fixes an issue where chainloading an image file on a location
that is accessible by the firmware, e.g. (hd0,1)/efi/boot.efi, would
fail when root is a location inaccessible by the firmware, e.g. memdisk.

Use GRUB_EFI_BYTES_TO_PAGES() instead of doing the calculation explicitly.

Add comment noting the section where the load options for the chainloaded
EFI application is constructed.

Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-06-01 12:09:55 +02:00
Glenn Washburn
cfb2acae01 docs: Document extra arguments to chainloader on EFI
Extra arguments given to chainloader on EFI platforms will be sent to
the chainloaded application. Also, minor edit in the chainloading section
to note that chainloading can be a jump via the firmware and not
necessarily in real mode (which does not exist on some architectures).

Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-06-01 12:09:21 +02:00
Oliver Steffen
158a6583e6 util/grub.d/25_bli.in: Activate bli module on EFI
Add a new configuration drop-in file that loads the bli module and runs
the command if booting on the EFI platform.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Steffen <osteffen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-06-01 11:45:01 +02:00
Oliver Steffen
e0fa7dc84c bli: Add a module for the Boot Loader Interface
Add a new module named bli. It implements a small but quite useful part
of the Boot Loader Interface [0]. This interface uses EFI variables for
communication between the boot loader and the operating system.

When loaded, this module sets two EFI variables under the vendor GUID
4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f:

- LoaderInfo: contains GRUB + <version number>.
  This allows the running operating system to identify the boot loader
  used during boot.

- LoaderDevicePartUUID: contains the partition UUID of the EFI System
  Partition (ESP). This is used by systemd-gpt-auto-generator [1] to
  find the root partitions (and others too), via partition type IDs [2].

This module is available on EFI platforms only. The bli module relies on
the part_gpt module which has to be loaded beforehand to make the GPT
partitions discoverable.

Update the documentation, add a new chapter "Modules" and describe the
bli module there.

[0] https://systemd.io/BOOT_LOADER_INTERFACE/
[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.html
[2] https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/discoverable_partitions_specification/

Signed-off-by: Oliver Steffen <osteffen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2023-06-01 11:45:00 +02:00