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2016-08-11	efi/capsule: Allocate whole capsule into virtual memory	Austin Christ	1	-3/+5
	According to UEFI 2.6 section 7.5.3, the capsule should be in contiguous virtual memory and firmware may consume the capsule immediately. To correctly implement this functionality, the kernel driver needs to vmap the entire capsule at the time it is made available to firmware. The virtual allocation of the capsule update has been changed from kmap, which was only allocating the first page of the update, to vmap, and allocates the entire data payload. Signed-off-by: Austin Christ <austinwc@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.7 Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@nexus-software.ie> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Kweh Hock Leong <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470912120-22831-3-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-04-28	efi: Add misc char driver interface to update EFI firmware	Kweh, Hock Leong	1	-0/+343
	This patch introduces a kernel module to expose a capsule loader interface (misc char device file note) for users to upload capsule binaries. Example: cat firmware.bin > /dev/efi_capsule_loader Any upload error will be returned while doing "cat" through file operation write() function call. Signed-off-by: Kweh, Hock Leong <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com> [ Update comments and Kconfig text ] Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@nexus-software.ie> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@linaro.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: joeyli <jlee@suse.com> Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461614832-17633-30-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>