We attempt to mimic the behaviour of Intel's PXE ROM by skipping the
separate ProxyDHCPREQUEST if the ProxyDHCPOFFER already contains a
boot filename or a PXE boot menu.
Experimentation reveals that Intel's PXE ROM will also check for a
non-empty next-server address alongside the boot filename. Update our
test to match this behaviour.
Reported-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Tested-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Commit 09b057c ("[settings] Remove "uristring" setting type") removed
support for URI-encoded settings via the "uristring" setting type, on
the basis that such encoding was no longer necessary to avoid problems
with the command line parser.
Other valid use cases for the "uristring" setting type do exist: for
example, a password containing a '/' character expanded via
chain http://username:${password:uristring}@server.name/boot.php
Restore the existence of the "uristring" setting, avoiding the
potentially large stack allocations that were used in the old code
prior to commit 09b057c ("[settings] Remove "uristring" setting
type").
Requested-by: Robin Smidsrød <robin@smidsrod.no>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
When booting without an embedded script, display the imgstat()
information immediately before executing the downloaded image. This
allows potentially useful diagnostic information (such as the detected
image type) to be observed by the user without needing to enter the
iPXE shell and manually download the image.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The current usage pattern of image_probe() is a legacy from the time
before commit 34b6ecb ("[image] Simplify image management") when
loading an image to its executable location in memory was a separate
action from actually executing the image.
Call image_probe() as soon as an image is registered. This allows
"imgstat" to display image type information for all images and allows
image-consuming code to assume that image->type is already set
correctly.
Ignore failures if image_probe() does not recognise the image, since
we do expect to handle unrecognised images (initrds, modules, etc).
Unrecognised images will be left with a NULL image->type, which
image-consuming code can easily check.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Allow the return status from an embedded image to propagate out to the
eventual return status from main(). When running under Linux, this
allows the pass/fail result of unit tests to be observable without
having to visually inspect the console output.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
A relatively common user mistake is to attempt to boot an EFI
executable (such as grub.efi) using a BIOS version of iPXE.
Unfortunately there are no signature checks that we can use to
unambiguously identify a PXE NBP, since a PXE NBP is just raw machine
code. We therefore have to accept anything sufficiently small to fit
into base memory as a valid PXE NBP.
We can detect that a file might be an EFI executable by checking for
the initial "MZ" signature bytes. This does not necessarily preclude
the file from also being a PXE NBP (since it would be possible to
create a hybrid binary which acts as both an EFI executable and a PXE
NBP, similar to the way in which wimboot and the Linux kernel are
hybrid binaries which act as both an EFI executable and a bzImage).
If the initial "MZ" signature bytes are present, then attempt to warn
the user by setting the image type to "PXE-NBP (may be EFI?)". We
can't (sensibly) prevent the user from accidentally running an EFI
executable as a PXE NBP, but we can at least make it easier for the
user to identify their mistake.
Inspired-by: Robin Smidsrød <robin@smidsrod.no>
Inspired-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some ProxyDHCP servers and PXE boot servers do not specify a DHCP
server identifier via option 54. We currently work around this in a
variety of ad-hoc ways:
- if a ProxyDHCPACK has no server identifier then we treat it as
having the correct server identifier,
- if a boot server ACK has no server identifier then we use the
packet's source IP address as the server identifier.
Introduce the concept of a DHCP server pseudo-identifier, defined as
being:
- the server identifier (option 54), or
- if there is no server identifier, then the next-server address
(siaddr),
- if there is no server identifier or next-server address, then the
DHCP packet's source IP address.
Use the pseudo-identifier in place of the server identifier when
handling ProxyDHCP and PXE boot server responses.
Originally-fixed-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The Infiniband link status change callback ipoib_link_state_changed()
may be called while the IPoIB device is closed, in which case there
will not be an IPoIB queue pair to be joined to the IPv4 broadcast
group. This leads to NULL pointer dereferences in ib_mcast_attach()
and ib_mcast_detach().
Fix by not attempting to join (or leave) the broadcast group unless we
actually have an IPoIB queue pair.
Signed-off-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Modified-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Rewrite the HTTP core to allow for the addition of arbitrary content
encoding mechanisms, such as PeerDist and gzip.
The core now exposes http_open() which can be used to create requests
with an explicitly selected HTTP method, an optional requested content
range, and an optional request body. A simple wrapper provides the
preexisting behaviour of creating either a GET request or an
application/x-www-form-urlencoded POST request (if the URI includes
parameters).
The HTTP SAN interface is now implemented using the generic block
device translator. Individual blocks are requested using http_open()
to create a range request.
Server connections are now managed via a connection pool; this allows
for multiple requests to the same server (e.g. for SAN blocks) to be
completely unaware of each other. Repeated HTTPS connections to the
same server can reuse a pooled connection, avoiding the per-connection
overhead of establishing a TLS session (which can take several seconds
if using a client certificate).
Support for HTTP SAN booting and for the Basic and Digest
authentication schemes is now optional and can be controlled via the
SANBOOT_PROTO_HTTP, HTTP_AUTH_BASIC, and HTTP_AUTH_DIGEST build
configuration options in config/general.h.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
UEFI platforms may provide a watchdog timer, which will reboot the
machine if an operating system takes more than five minutes to load.
This can cause long-lived iPXE downloads (or interactive shell
sessions) to unexpectedly reboot.
Fix by resetting the watchdog timer every ten seconds while the iPXE
main processing loop continues to run.
Reported-by: Bradley B Williams <bradleybwilliams@swbell.net>
Reported-by: John Clark <john.r.clark.3@gmail.com>
Reported-by: wdriever@gmail.com
Reported-by: Charlie Beima <cbeima@indiana.edu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add support for SHA-224, SHA-384, and SHA-512 as digest algorithms in
X.509 certificates, and allow the choice of public-key, cipher, and
digest algorithms to be configured at build time via config/crypto.h.
Originally-implemented-by: Tufan Karadere <tufank@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The current implementation handles big-endian 24-bit integers (which
occur in several TLS record types) by treating them as big-endian
32-bit integers which are shifted by 8 bits. This can result in
"Invalid read" errors when running under valgrind, if the 24-bit field
happens to be exactly at the end of an I/O buffer.
Fix by ensuring that we touch only the three bytes which comprise the
24-bit integer.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Check for existence of the UART in uart_select(), not just in
uart_init(). This allows uart_select() to refuse to set a non-working
address in uart->base, which in turns means that the serial console
code will not attempt to use a non-existent UART.
Reported-by: Torgeir Wulfsberg <Torgeir.Wulfsberg@kongsberg.com>
Reported-by: Ján ONDREJ (SAL) <ondrejj@salstar.sk>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
When the ability for iPXE to handle multiple serial ports was added,
the choice was made that the singular serial port referred to by
COMBOOT calls should mean the port used for the serial console. This
unintentionally caused IMAGE_COMBOOT to also enable CONSOLE_SERIAL.
Fix by providing a weak-symbol version of the serial console which
will be used if serial console support was not explicitly enabled.
Reported-by: Torgeir Wulfsberg <Torgeir.Wulfsberg@kongsberg.com>
Reported-by: Ján ONDREJ (SAL) <ondrejj@salstar.sk>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
We do not set up any kind of virtual addressing before invoking an
ELFBoot image. Reject if the image's program headers indicate that
virtual addresses are not equal to physical addresses.
This avoids problems when loading some RHEL5 kernels, which seem to
include ELFBoot headers using virtual addressing. With this change,
these kernels are no longer detected as ELFBoot, and so may be
(correctly) detected as bzImage instead.
Reported-by: Torgeir.Wulfsberg@kongsberg.com
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Allow line buffer to accumulate multiple lines, with buffered_line()
returning each freshly-completed line as it is encountered. This
allows buffered lines to be subsequently processed as a group.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
VLAN and 802.11 devices use a network device operations structure that
wraps an underlying structure. For example, the vlan_operations
structure wraps the network device operations structure of the
underlying trunk device. This can cause false positives from the
current implementation of netdev_irq_supported(), which will always
report that VLAN devices support interrupts since it has no visibility
into the support provided by the underlying trunk device.
Fix by allowing network devices to explicitly flag that interrupts are
not supported, despite the presence of an irq() method.
Originally-fixed-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
iscsi_tx_done() is missing "break" statements at the end of each case.
(Fortunately, this happens not to cause a bug in practice, since
iscsi_login_request_done() is effectively a no-op when completing a
data-out PDU.)
Reported-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Extend the IPv6 concept of "scope ID" (indicating the network device
index) to IPv4 socket addresses, so that IPv4 multicast transmissions
may specify the transmitting network device.
The scope ID is not (currently) exposed via the string representation
of the socket address, since IPv4 does not use the IPv6 concept of
link-local addresses (which could legitimately be specified in a URI).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Redefine various IPv4 address constants and testing macros to avoid
unnecessary byte swapping at runtime, and slightly rename the macros
to prevent code from accidentally using the old definitions.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Avoid using zero as a network device index, so that a zero
sin6_scope_id can be used to mean "unspecified" (rather than
unintentionally meaning "net0").
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
When an IPv6 socket address string specifies a link-local or multicast
address but does not specify the requisite network device name
(e.g. "fe80::69ff:fe50:5845" rather than "fe80::69ff:fe50:5845%net0"),
assume the use of "netX".
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Remove AXTLS headers now that no AXTLS code remains, with many thanks
to the AXTLS project for use of their cryptography code over the past
several years.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Replace the AES implementation from AXTLS with a dedicated iPXE
implementation which is slightly smaller and around 1000% faster.
This implementation has been verified using the existing self-tests
based on the NIST AES test vectors.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Generalise the existing support for performing CBC-mode block cipher
tests, and update the code to use okx() for neater reporting of test
results.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
xfer_buffer() uses intf_get_dest_op() to obtain the destination
interface for xfer_deliver(), in order to check that this is the same
interface which provides xfer_buffer(). The return value from
intf_get_dest_op() (which contains the actual method implementing
xfer_deliver()) is not used.
On some gcc versions, this triggers a "value computed is not used"
warning, since the explicit type cast included within the
intf_get_dest_op() macro is treated as a "value computed".
Fix by explicitly casting the result of intf_get_dest_op() to void.
Reported-by: Matthew Helton <mwhelton@gmail.com>
Reported-by: James A. Peltier <jpeltier@sfu.ca>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Reduce the cost of implementing object methods which convey no
information beyond the fact that the method has been called.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Provide profile_custom() as a trivial wrapper around profile_update()
to allow for the use of the profiling infrastructure by code using
timers other than the default profile_timestamp() provider.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Provide an inject_corruption() function that can be used to randomly
corrupt data bytes with configurable probabilities.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Provide a generic inject_fault() function that can be used to inject
random faults with configurable probabilities.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add a named configuration for qemu, based on the config.ipxe.general.h
file taken from the current qemu repository and enabling the option to
work around the missing EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
iPXE does not currently provide EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL: this
causes failures when chainloading bootloaders such as shim.efi which
assume that this protocol will be present.
Provide the ability to work around these problems via the build
configuration option EFI_DOWNGRADE_UX. If this option is enabled,
then we will not install our usual EFI_LOAD_FILE_PROTOCOL
implementation, thereby allowing the platform firmware to install its
own EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL implementation on top of our
EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK_PROTOCOL handle.
A somewhat major side-effect of this workaround is that almost all
iPXE features will be disabled.
This configuration option will be removed in future when support for
EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL is added.
Requested-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Requested-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Fix the TxBuf value filled in by GetStatus() to report the transmit
buffer address as required by the (now clarified) specification.
Simplify "interrupt" handling in GetStatus() to report only that one
or more packets have been transmitted or received; there is no need to
report one GetStatus() "interrupt" per packet.
Simplify receive handling to dequeue received packets immediately from
the network device into an internal list (thereby avoiding the hacks
previously used to determine when to report new packet arrivals).
Originally-fixed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Expose the high bit of the VGA text attribute byte via the ANSI SGR
parameters 5 ("blink on") and 25 ("blink off").
Note that some video cards (and virtual machines) may display a high
intensity background colour instead of blinking text.
Signed-off-by: Christian Nilsson <nikize@gmail.com>
Modified-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Multicast MAC addresses will never have REMAC cache entries, and the
corresponding multicast IPoIB MAC address cannot be obtained simply by
issuing an ARP request.
For the trivial volume of multicast packets that we expect to send in
any realistic scenario, the simplest solution is to send them as
broadcasts instead.
Reported-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
We currently do not wait for a received FIN before exiting to boot a
loaded OS. In the common case of booting from an HTTP server, this
means that the TCP connection is left consuming resources on the
server side: the server will retransmit the FIN several times before
giving up.
Fix by initiating a graceful close of all TCP connections and waiting
(for up to one second) for all connections to finish closing
gracefully (i.e. for the outgoing FIN to have been sent and ACKed, and
for the incoming FIN to have been received and ACKed at least once).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Older, out-of-tree Xen kernel modules (such as those provided with
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11) do not clear the leftover "event
pending" bit when opening an event channel. Consequently, no event is
ever delivered to indicate that there is information in the XenStore
ring buffer, and the system hangs shortly after loading the
xen-platform-pci kernel module.
Work around this problem by always waiting for the XenStore event
channel to be signalled, and clearing the event before processing the
received data.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The only way to map an eIPoIB MAC address (REMAC) to an IPoIB MAC
address is to intercept an incoming ARP request or reply.
If we do not have an REMAC cache entry for a particular destination
MAC address, then we cannot transmit the packet. This can arise in at
least two situations:
- An external program (e.g. a PXE NBP using the UNDI API) may attempt
to transmit to a destination MAC address that has been obtained by
some method other than ARP.
- Memory pressure may have caused REMAC cache entries to be
discarded. This is fairly likely on a busy network, since REMAC
cache entries are created for all received (broadcast) ARP
requests. (We can't sensibly avoid creating these cache entries,
since they are required in order to send an ARP reply, and when we
are being used via the UNDI API we may have no knowledge of which
IP addresses are "ours".)
Attempt to ameliorate the situation by generating a semi-spurious ARP
request whenever we find a missing REMAC cache entry. This will
hopefully trigger an ARP reply, which would then provide us with the
information required to populate the REMAC cache.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
As with the neighbour cache, discarding an REMAC cache entry is
potentially very disruptive.
Originally-fixed-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Avoid accidentally returning stale packets (e.g. for a previously
attempted network device) by always constructing a fresh DHCP packet.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
If the link is blocked (e.g. due to a Spanning Tree Protocol port not
yet forwarding packets) then defer DHCP discovery until the link
becomes unblocked.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
A fairly common end-user problem is that the default configuration of
a switch may leave the port in a non-forwarding state for a
substantial length of time (tens of seconds) after link up. This can
cause iPXE to time out and give up attempting to boot.
We cannot force the switch to start forwarding packets sooner, since
any attempt to send a Spanning Tree Protocol bridge PDU may cause the
switch to disable our port (if the switch happens to have the Bridge
PDU Guard feature enabled for the port).
For non-ancient versions of the Spanning Tree Protocol, we can detect
whether or not the port is currently forwarding and use this to inform
the network device core that the link is currently blocked.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
When Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) is used, there may be a substantial
delay (tens of seconds) from the time that the link goes up to the
time that the port starts forwarding packets.
Add a generic concept of a "blocked link" (i.e. a link which is up but
which is not expected to communicate successfully), and allow "ifstat"
to indicate when a link is blocked.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
In some Ethernet framing variants the two-byte protocol field is used
as a length, with the Ethernet header being followed by an IEEE 802.2
LLC header. The first two bytes of the LLC header are the DSAP and
SSAP.
If the received Ethernet packet appears to use this framing, then
interpret the two-byte DSAP and SSAP as being the network-layer
protocol. This allows support for receiving Spanning Tree Protocol
frames (which use an LLC header with {DSAP,SSAP}=0x4242) to be added
without requiring a full LLC protocol layer.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The size of the .mrom payload (the second PCI ROM image) is defined in
its PCI header. The code type for the .mrom payload image is
deliberately set to an invalid value (0xff) to ensure that no BIOS
tries to parse anything in the image other than the PCI header.
Since the code type is not set to 0x00 ("Intel x86, PC-AT
compatible"), bytes 0x02-0x17 should not be interpreted by the BIOS as
being in the standard ISA expansion ROM format. In particular, the
byte at offset 0x02 does not represent the length of the ROM image (in
512-byte blocks).
However, some Dell BIOSes seem to erroneously use the byte at offset
0x02 to determine the length of the .mrom payload when walking the
list of PCI ROM images. Since this byte is currently set to zero,
this can lead to the BIOS getting stuck in an infinite loop during
POST. (This problem may not arise if the .mrom payload is the final
image in the ROM, since the BIOS will then have no reason to attempt
to locate the next image.)
One possible workaround would be to put the real payload size in this
byte, but doing so would constrain the .mrom payload size to 128kB
(see commit 8049a52 ("[mromprefix] Allow for .mrom images larger than
128kB") for more details).
Another possible workaround would be to put the real payload size as a
word in bytes 0x02-0x03 (as is done for EFI ROMs). This would not
constrain the .mrom payload size, but a payload size which happened to
be exactly 128kB would result in a zero value in the byte at offset
0x02 and so could still result in infinite loops on BIOSes with this
bug.
We choose to place a fixed value of 0x01 in the byte at offset 0x02.
This should at least prevent the BIOS from getting stuck in an
infinite loop. (The BIOS may walk into the middle of the .mrom
payload, where it will almost certainly not find a valid {0x55,0xaa}
signature or a valid PCIR header, and will therefore hopefully abort
processing.)
Reported-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
We currently shrink the TCP window permanently if we are ever forced
(by a low-memory condition) to discard a previously received TCP
packet. This behaviour was intended to reduce the number of
retransmissions in a lossy network, since lost packets might
potentially result in the entire window contents being retransmitted.
Since commit e0fc8fe ("[tcp] Implement support for TCP Selective
Acknowledgements (SACK)") the cost of lost packets has been reduced by
around one order of magnitude, and the reduction in the window size
(which affects the maximum throughput) is now the more significant
cost.
Remove the code which reduces the TCP maximum window size when a
received packet is discarded.
Reported-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Tested-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some HP BIOSes (observed with an HP ProLiant m710p Server Cartridge)
have a bug in the implementation of INT 1a,b101: they blithely assume
that real-mode code is able to read from anywhere in the 32-bit memory
space.
This problem affects the call to INT 1a,b101 made from within
pcibios_num_bus() (which uses REAL_CODE() and hence executes in
genuine real mode) but does not affect the call made from within
romprefix.S (since with a PMM BIOS, that call executes in flat real
mode anyway).
Work around the problem by explicitly calling flatten_real_mode()
before invoking INT 1a,b101. This is a rarely-used code path, and so
the extra overhead of emulating instructions in some VM configurations
(see commit 6d4deee ("[librm] Use genuine real mode to accelerate
operation in virtual machines") for more details) is negligible.
Reported-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Debugged-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Debugged-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some Intel Skylake platforms (observed on a prototype Lenovo ThinkPad)
report the list of available USB3 protocol speed ID values as {1,2,3}
but then report a port's speed using ID value 4.
The value 4 happens to be the default value for SuperSpeed (when no
protocol speed ID value list is explicitly defined), and the hardware
seems to function correctly if we simply ignore its protocol speed ID
table and assume that it uses the default values.
Fix by adding a "broken PSI values" quirk for this controller.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
gcc 4.8.2 fails to report this erroneous comparison unless assertions
are enabled.
Reported-by: Mary-Ann Johnson <MaryAnn.Johnson@displaylink.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Commit dc19e63 ("[build] Construct all-drivers list based on driver
class") accidentally excluded the USB bus drivers from the list of
files parsed in order to create PCI 3.0 device ID lists.
Fix by returning $(DRIVERS) to its previous definition as a list of
all driver files, and use only $(DRIVERS_ipxe) to contain the
filtered list containing only those drivers which we want to include
in the "all-drivers" build.
Reported-by: Mary-Ann Johnson <MaryAnn.Johnson@displaylink.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The xHCI slot ID is one-based, not zero-based. Fix the length of the
xhci->slot[] array to account for this, and add assertions to check
that the hardware returns a valid slot ID in response to the Enable
Slot command.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Deferral of a packet for neighbour discovery is not really an error.
If we fail to discover a neighbour then the failure will eventually be
reported by the call to neighbour_destroy() when any outstanding I/O
buffers are discarded.
The current behaviour breaks PXE booting on FreeBSD, which seems to
treat the error return from PXENV_UDP_WRITE as a fatal error and so
never proceeds to poll PXENV_UDP_READ (and hence never allows iPXE to
receive the ARP reply and send the deferred UDP packet).
Change neighbour_tx() to return success when deferring a packet. This
fixes interoperability with FreeBSD and removes transient neighbour
cache misses from the "ifstat" error output, while leaving genuine
neighbour discovery failures visible via "ifstat" (once neighbour
discovery times out, or the interface is closed).
Debugged-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Tested-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
When jumbo frames are enabled, the Linux ixgbe physical function
driver will disable the virtual function's receive datapath by
default, and will enable it only if the virtual function negotiates
API version 1.1 (or higher) and explicitly selects an MTU.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Several popular public cloud providers do not provide any sensible
mechanism for obtaining debug output from an OS which is failing to
boot. For example, Amazon EC2 provides the "Get System Log" facility,
which occasionally deigns to report a random subset of the characters
emitted via the VM's serial port, but usually returns only a blank
screen. (Amazingly, this is still superior to the debugging
facilities provided by Azure.)
Work around these shortcomings by adding a console type which sends
output to a magically detected raw disk partition, and including such
a partition within any iPXE .usb-format image.
To use this facility:
- build an iPXE .usb image with CONSOLE_INT13 enabled
- boot the cloud VM from this image
- after the boot fails, attach the VM's boot disk to a second VM
- from this second VM, use "less -f -R /dev/sdb3" (or similar) to
view the iPXE output.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Virtual functions use a mailbox to communicate with the physical
function driver: this covers functionality such as obtaining the MAC
address.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Intel virtual function NICs almost work with the use of "legacy"
transmit and receive descriptors (which are backwards compatible right
back to the original Intel Gigabit NICs).
Unfortunately the "TX switching" feature (which allows for VM<->VM
traffic to be looped back within the NIC itself) does not work when a
legacy TX descriptor is used: the packet is instead sent onto the
wire.
Fix by allowing for the use of an "advanced" TX descriptor (containing
exactly the same information as is found in the "legacy" descriptor).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown