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Message-ID: <ZFzouh4AJemaJAah@anisse-laptop>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 15:21:13 +0200
From: Anisse Astier <anisse@...ier.eu>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
Cc: Anisse Astier <an.astier@...teo.com>,
Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@...nel.org>,
Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Jeremy Kerr <jk@...abs.org>,
platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Richard Hughes <hughsient@...il.com>,
"Limonciello, Mario" <Mario.Limonciello@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] efivarfs: expose used and total size
Hi,
On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 05:13:36PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2023 at 21:59, Anisse Astier <anisse@...ier.eu> wrote:
> >
> > From: Anisse Astier <an.astier@...teo.com>
> >
> > When writing variables, one might get errors with no other message on
> > why it fails.
> >
> > Being able to see how much is used by EFI variables helps analyzing such
> > issues.
> >
> > Since this is not a conventionnal filesystem, block size is
> > intentionnally set to 1 instead of PAGE_SIZE.
> >
> > x86 quirks of reserved size are taken into account and available and
> > free size can be different, further helping debugging space issues.
> >
>
> I have no objections to this, but I'm not much of a user space/ VFS
> person, so adding some other folks that can chime in if they want.
Thanks !
>
> The point of this patch is that user space can query this information
> using statvfs(), right?
Yes, which means that a simple df command will show the used and free
space remaining in the EFI variable storage area:
$ df -h /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
efivarfs 176K 106K 66K 62% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
Regards,
Anisse
>
>
>
> > Signed-off-by: Anisse Astier <an.astier@...teo.com>
> > ---
> > Notes:
> > Patch isn't split per subsystem intentionally, for better understanding
> > of intent; split could be trivial in a later version.
> >
> > I'm not sure whether statfs(2) should return an error if the efi request
> > fails; I think it could be ignored with maybe a WARN_ONCE; which would
> > be close to the current behaviour.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Anisse
> >
> > ---
> > arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c | 8 ++++++++
> > drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 1 +
> > drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> > fs/efivarfs/super.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > include/linux/efi.h | 10 ++++++++++
> > 5 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> > index b0b848d6933a..587fa51230e2 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> > @@ -114,6 +114,14 @@ void efi_delete_dummy_variable(void)
> > EFI_VARIABLE_RUNTIME_ACCESS, 0, NULL);
> > }
> >
> > +u64 efi_reserved_space(void)
> > +{
> > + if (efi_no_storage_paranoia)
> > + return 0;
> > + return EFI_MIN_RESERVE;
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(efi_reserved_space);
> > +
> > /*
> > * In the nonblocking case we do not attempt to perform garbage
> > * collection if we do not have enough free space. Rather, we do the
> > diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> > index abeff7dc0b58..d0dfa007bffc 100644
> > --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> > @@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ static int generic_ops_register(void)
> > generic_ops.get_variable = efi.get_variable;
> > generic_ops.get_next_variable = efi.get_next_variable;
> > generic_ops.query_variable_store = efi_query_variable_store;
> > + generic_ops.query_variable_info = efi.query_variable_info;
> >
> > if (efi_rt_services_supported(EFI_RT_SUPPORTED_SET_VARIABLE)) {
> > generic_ops.set_variable = efi.set_variable;
> > diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c
> > index bd75b87f5fc1..c5382d5c3073 100644
> > --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c
> > +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c
> > @@ -245,3 +245,15 @@ efi_status_t efivar_set_variable(efi_char16_t *name, efi_guid_t *vendor,
> > return status;
> > }
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(efivar_set_variable, EFIVAR);
> > +
> > +efi_status_t efivar_query_variable_info(u32 attr,
> > + u64 *storage_space,
> > + u64 *remaining_space,
> > + u64 *max_variable_size)
> > +{
> > + if (!__efivars->ops->query_variable_info)
> > + return EFI_UNSUPPORTED;
> > + return __efivars->ops->query_variable_info(attr, storage_space,
> > + remaining_space, max_variable_size);
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(efivar_query_variable_info, EFIVAR);
> > diff --git a/fs/efivarfs/super.c b/fs/efivarfs/super.c
> > index 482d612b716b..064bfc0243c9 100644
> > --- a/fs/efivarfs/super.c
> > +++ b/fs/efivarfs/super.c
> > @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
> > #include <linux/ucs2_string.h>
> > #include <linux/slab.h>
> > #include <linux/magic.h>
> > +#include <linux/statfs.h>
> >
> > #include "internal.h"
> >
> > @@ -23,8 +24,31 @@ static void efivarfs_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
> > clear_inode(inode);
> > }
> >
> > +static int efivarfs_statfs(struct dentry *dentry, struct kstatfs *buf)
> > +{
> > + u64 storage_space, remaining_space, max_variable_size;
> > + efi_status_t status;
> > + const u32 attr = (EFI_VARIABLE_NON_VOLATILE | EFI_VARIABLE_BOOTSERVICE_ACCESS |
> > + EFI_VARIABLE_RUNTIME_ACCESS);
> > +
> > + buf->f_type = dentry->d_sb->s_magic;
> > + buf->f_bsize = 1;
> > + buf->f_namelen = NAME_MAX;
> > +
> > + status = efivar_query_variable_info(attr, &storage_space, &remaining_space,
> > + &max_variable_size);
> > + if (status != EFI_SUCCESS)
> > + return efi_status_to_err(status);
> > + buf->f_blocks = storage_space;
> > + buf->f_bfree = remaining_space;
> > + if (remaining_space > efi_reserved_space())
> > + buf->f_bavail = remaining_space - efi_reserved_space();
> > + else
> > + buf->f_bavail = 0;
> > + return 0;
> > +}
> > static const struct super_operations efivarfs_ops = {
> > - .statfs = simple_statfs,
> > + .statfs = efivarfs_statfs,
> > .drop_inode = generic_delete_inode,
> > .evict_inode = efivarfs_evict_inode,
> > };
> > diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h
> > index 7aa62c92185f..d2b686191870 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/efi.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/efi.h
> > @@ -703,6 +703,7 @@ static inline void efi_enter_virtual_mode (void) {}
> > extern efi_status_t efi_query_variable_store(u32 attributes,
> > unsigned long size,
> > bool nonblocking);
> > +extern u64 efi_reserved_space(void);
> > #else
> >
> > static inline efi_status_t efi_query_variable_store(u32 attributes,
> > @@ -711,6 +712,10 @@ static inline efi_status_t efi_query_variable_store(u32 attributes,
> > {
> > return EFI_SUCCESS;
> > }
> > +static inline u64 efi_reserved_space(void)
> > +{
> > + return 0;
> > +}
> > #endif
> > extern void __iomem *efi_lookup_mapped_addr(u64 phys_addr);
> >
> > @@ -1042,6 +1047,7 @@ struct efivar_operations {
> > efi_set_variable_t *set_variable;
> > efi_set_variable_t *set_variable_nonblocking;
> > efi_query_variable_store_t *query_variable_store;
> > + efi_query_variable_info_t *query_variable_info;
> > };
> >
> > struct efivars {
> > @@ -1087,6 +1093,10 @@ efi_status_t efivar_set_variable_locked(efi_char16_t *name, efi_guid_t *vendor,
> > efi_status_t efivar_set_variable(efi_char16_t *name, efi_guid_t *vendor,
> > u32 attr, unsigned long data_size, void *data);
> >
> > +efi_status_t efivar_query_variable_info(u32 attr, u64 *storage_space,
> > + u64 *remaining_space,
> > + u64 *max_variable_size);
> > +
> > #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_EFI_CAPSULE_LOADER)
> > extern bool efi_capsule_pending(int *reset_type);
> >
> > --
> > 2.34.1
> >
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