Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v2] OvmfPkg/PlatformInitLib: Fix integrity checking failed of NvVarStore in some cases

["joeyli" <jlee@suse.com>]

Hi Jiewen,

Sorry for I didn't create tiano CI on github in time. And thanks for your
help to merge my patch. 

I will create tiano CI in next time after getting our Review-by tag.

Thanks!
Joey Lee

On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 03:17:42AM +0000, Yao, Jiewen via groups.io wrote:
> Thanks for the fix.
> Reviewed-by: Jiewen Yao <Jiewen.yao@intel.com>
> 
> Question: Have you run tiano CI by yourself, before submit the patch?
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lee, Chun-Yi <joeyli.kernel@gmail.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2022 10:27 PM
> > To: devel@edk2.groups.io
> > Cc: Xu, Min M <min.m.xu@intel.com>; Gerd Hoffmann
> > <kraxel@redhat.com>; Yao, Jiewen <jiewen.yao@intel.com>; Tom Lendacky
> > <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>; James Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>;
> > Aktas, Erdem <erdemaktas@google.com>; Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
> > Subject: [PATCH v2] OvmfPkg/PlatformInitLib: Fix integrity checking failed of
> > NvVarStore in some cases
> > 
> > In the commit 4f173db8b4 "OvmfPkg/PlatformInitLib: Add functions for
> > EmuVariableNvStore", it introduced a PlatformValidateNvVarStore() function
> > for checking the integrity of NvVarStore.
> > 
> > In some cases when the VariableHeader->StartId is VARIABLE_DATA, the
> > VariableHeader->State is not just one of the four primary states:
> > VAR_IN_DELETED_TRANSITION, VAR_DELETED, VAR_HEADER_VALID_ONLY,
> > VAR_ADDED.
> > The state may combined two or three states, e.g.
> > 
> >     0x3C = (VAR_IN_DELETED_TRANSITION & VAR_ADDED) & VAR_DELETED
> > or
> >     0x3D = VAR_ADDED & VAR_DELETED
> > 
> > When the variable store has those variables, system booting/rebooting will
> > hangs in a ASSERT:
> > 
> > NvVarStore Variable header State was invalid.
> > ASSERT
> > /mnt/working/source_code-
> > git/edk2/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/Platform.c(819):
> > ((BOOLEAN)(0==1))
> > 
> > Adding more log to UpdateVariable() and PlatformValidateNvVarStore(), we
> > saw some variables which have 0x3C or 0x3D state in store.
> > e.g.
> > 
> > UpdateVariable(), VariableName=BootOrder
> > L1871, State=0000003F			<-- VAR_ADDED
> > State &= VAR_DELETED=0000003D
> > FlushHobVariableToFlash(), VariableName=BootOrder
> > ...
> > UpdateVariable(), VariableName=InitialAttemptOrder
> > L1977, State=0000003F
> > State &= VAR_IN_DELETED_TRANSITION=0000003E
> > L2376, State=0000003E
> > State &= VAR_DELETED=0000003C
> > FlushHobVariableToFlash(), VariableName=InitialAttemptOrder
> > ...
> > UpdateVariable(), VariableName=ConIn
> > L1977, State=0000003F
> > State &= VAR_IN_DELETED_TRANSITION=0000003E
> > L2376, State=0000003E
> > State &= VAR_DELETED=0000003C
> > FlushHobVariableToFlash(), VariableName=ConIn
> > ...
> > 
> > So, only allowing the four primary states is not enough. This patch changes
> > the falid states list (Follow Jiewen Yao's suggestion):
> > 
> > 1. VAR_HEADER_VALID_ONLY (0x7F)
> > 	- Header added (*)
> > 2. VAR_ADDED (0x3F)
> > 	- Header + data added
> > 3. VAR_ADDED & VAR_IN_DELETED_TRANSITION (0x3E)
> > 	- marked as deleted, but still valid, before new data is added. (*)
> > 4. VAR_ADDED & VAR_IN_DELETED_TRANSITION & VAR_DELETED (0x3C)
> > 	- deleted, after new data is added.
> > 5. VAR_ADDED & VAR_DELETED (0x3D)
> > 	- deleted directly, without new data.
> > (*) means to support surprise shutdown.
> > 
> > And removed (VAR_IN_DELETED_TRANSITION) and (VAR_DELETED) because
> > they are
> > invalid states.
> > 
> > v2:
> > Follow Jiewen Yao's suggestion to add the following valid states:
> > 	VAR_ADDED & VAR_DELETED (0x3D)
> > 	VAR_ADDED & VAR_IN_DELETED_TRANSITION (0x3E)
> > 	VAR_ADDED & VAR_IN_DELETED_TRANSITION & VAR_DELETED
> > (0x3C)
> > and removed the following invalid states:
> > 	VAR_IN_DELETED_TRANSITION
> > 	VAR_DELETED
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: "Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee@suse.com>
> > ---
> >  OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/Platform.c | 9 +++++----
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/Platform.c
> > b/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/Platform.c
> > index 77f22de046..6963c47e0b 100644
> > --- a/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/Platform.c
> > +++ b/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformInitLib/Platform.c
> > @@ -702,10 +702,11 @@ PlatformValidateNvVarStore (
> > 
> >        VariableOffset = NvVarStoreHeader->Size - sizeof
> > (VARIABLE_STORE_HEADER);
> >      } else {
> > -      if (!((VariableHeader->State == VAR_IN_DELETED_TRANSITION) ||
> > -            (VariableHeader->State == VAR_DELETED) ||
> > -            (VariableHeader->State == VAR_HEADER_VALID_ONLY) ||
> > -            (VariableHeader->State == VAR_ADDED)))
> > +      if (!((VariableHeader->State == VAR_HEADER_VALID_ONLY) ||
> > +	    (VariableHeader->State == VAR_ADDED) ||
> > +	    (VariableHeader->State == (VAR_ADDED & VAR_DELETED)) ||
> > +	    (VariableHeader->State == (VAR_ADDED &
> > VAR_IN_DELETED_TRANSITION)) ||
> > +	    (VariableHeader->State == (VAR_ADDED &
> > VAR_IN_DELETED_TRANSITION & VAR_DELETED))))
> >        {
> >          DEBUG ((DEBUG_ERROR, "NvVarStore Variable header State was
> > invalid.\n"));
> >          return FALSE;
> > --
> > 2.35.3
> 
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