TCP/IP checksum fields are one's complement values and therefore have
two possible representations of zero: positive zero (0x0000) and
negative zero (0xffff).
In RFC768, UDP over IPv4 exploits this redundancy to repurpose the
positive representation of zero (0x0000) to mean "no checksum
calculated"; checksums are optional for UDP over IPv4.
In RFC2460, checksums are made mandatory for UDP over IPv4. The
wording of the RFC is such that the UDP header is mandated to use only
the negative representation of zero (0xffff), rather than simply
requiring the checksum to be correct but allowing for either
representation of zero to be used.
In RFC1071, an example algorithm is given for calculating the TCP/IP
checksum. This algorithm happens to produce only the positive
representation of zero (0x0000); this is an artifact of the way that
unsigned arithmetic is used to calculate a signed one's complement
sum (and its final negation).
A common misconception has developed (exemplified in RFC1624) that
this artifact is part of the specification. Many people have assumed
that the checksum field should never contain the negative
representation of zero (0xffff).
A sensible receiver will calculate the checksum over the whole packet
and verify that the result is zero (in whichever representation of
zero happens to be generated by the receiver's algorithm). Such a
receiver will not care which representation of zero happens to be used
in the checksum field.
However, there are receivers in existence which will verify the
received checksum the hard way: by calculating the checksum over the
remainder of the packet and comparing the result against the checksum
field. If the representation of zero used by the receiver's algorithm
does not match the representation of zero used by the transmitter (and
so placed in the checksum field), and if the receiver does not
explicitly allow for both representations to compare as equal, then
the receiver may reject packets with a valid checksum.
For UDP, the combined RFCs effectively mandate that we should generate
only the negative representation of zero in the checksum field.
For IP, TCP and ICMP, the RFCs do not mandate which representation of
zero should be used, but the misconceptions which have grown up around
RFC1071 and RFC1624 suggest that it would be least surprising to
generate only the positive representation of zero in the checksum
field.
Fix by ensuring that all of our checksum algorithms generate only the
positive representation of zero, and explicitly inverting this in the
case of transmitted UDP packets.
Reported-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Tested-by: Wissam Shoukair <wissams@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Allow iPXE to coexist with other USB device drivers, by attaching to
the EFI_USB_IO_PROTOCOL instances provided by the UEFI platform
firmware.
The EFI_USB_IO_PROTOCOL is an unsurprisingly badly designed
abstraction of a USB device. The poor design choices intrinsic in the
UEFI specification prevent efficient operation as a network device,
with the result that devices operated using the EFI_USB_IO_PROTOCOL
operate approximately two orders of magnitude slower than devices
operated using our native EHCI or xHCI host controller drivers.
Since the performance is so abysmally slow, and since the underlying
problems are due to fundamental architectural mistakes in the UEFI
specification, support for the EFI_USB_IO_PROTOCOL host controller
driver is left as disabled by default. Users are advised to use the
native iPXE host controller drivers instead.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Many UEFI NBPs expect to find an EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL installed
in addition to the EFI_SIMPLE_NETWORK_PROTOCOL. Most NBPs use the
EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL only to retrieve the cached DHCP packets.
This implementation has been tested with grub.efi, shim.efi,
syslinux.efi, and wdsmgfw.efi. Some methods (such as Discover() and
Arp()) are not used by any known NBP and so have not (yet) been
implemented.
Usage notes for the tested bootstraps are:
- grub.efi uses EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL only to retrieve the
cached DHCP packet, and uses no other methods.
- shim.efi uses EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL to retrieve the cached
DHCP packet and to retrieve the next NBP via the Mtftp() method.
If shim.efi was downloaded via HTTP (or other non-TFTP protocol)
then shim.efi will blindly call Mtftp() with an HTTP URI as the
filename: this allows the next NBP (e.g. grubx64.efi) to also be
transparently retrieved by HTTP.
shim.efi can also use the EFI_SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM_PROTOCOL to
retrieve files previously loaded by "imgfetch" or similar commands
in iPXE. The current implementation of shim.efi will use the
EFI_SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM_PROTOCOL only if it does not find an
EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL; this patch therefore prevents this
usage of our EFI_SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM_PROTOCOL. This logic could be
trivially reversed in shim.efi if needed.
- syslinux.efi uses EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL only to retrieve the
cached DHCP packet. Versions 6.03 and earlier have a bug which
may cause syslinux.efi to attach to the wrong NIC if there are
multiple NICs in the system (or if the UEFI firmware supports
IPv6).
- wdsmgfw.efi (ab)uses EFI_PXE_BASE_CODE_PROTOCOL to retrieve the
cached DHCP packets, and to send and retrieve UDP packets via the
UdpWrite() and UdpRead() methods. (This was presumably done in
order to minimise the amount of benefit obtainable by switching to
UEFI, by replicating all of the design mistakes present in the
original PXE specification.)
The EFI_DOWNGRADE_UX configuration option remains available for now,
until this implementation has received more widespread testing.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Merge the functionality of parse_next_server_and_filename() and
tftp_uri() into a single pxe_uri(), which takes a server address
(IPv4/IPv6/none) and a filename, and produces a URI using the rule:
- if the filename is a hierarchical absolute URI (i.e. includes a
scheme such as "http://" or "tftp://") then use that URI and ignore
the server address,
- otherwise, if the server address is recognised (according to
sa_family) then construct a TFTP URI based on the server address,
port, and filename
- otherwise fail.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
We currently do not populate the ciaddr field in the constructed PXE
Boot Server ACK packet. This causes a WDS server to respond with a
broadcast packet, which is then ignored by wdsmgfw.efi since it does
not match the specified IP address filter.
Fix by populating ciaddr within the constructed PXE Boot Server ACK
packet.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Our SNP ReceiveFilters() method is a no-op, since we always (if
possible) use promiscuous mode for all network cards. The method
currently returns EFI_NOT_READY if the SNP interfaces are claimed for
use by iPXE, as with all other SNP methods.
The WDS bootstrap wdsmgfw.efi attempts to use both the PXE Base Code
protocol and the Simple Network Protocol simultaneously. This is
fundamentally broken, since use of the PXE Base Code protocol requires
us to disable the use of SNP (by claiming the interfaces for use by
iPXE), otherwise MnpDxe swallows all of the received packets before
our PXE Base Code's UdpRead() method is able to return them.
The root cause of this problem is that, as with BIOS PXE, the network
booting portions of the UEFI specification are less of a specification
and more of an application note sketchily describing how the original
hacked-together Intel implementation works. No sane design would ever
have included the UdpWrite() and UdpRead() methods.
Work around these fundamental conceptual flaws by unconditionally
returning success from efi_snp_receive_filters().
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some distributions (observed with Ubuntu 15.04) place ldlinux.c32 in a
separate directory from isolinux.bin. Search for these files
separately, and allow an alternative location of ldlinux.c32 to be
provided via LDLINUX_C32=... on the make command line.
Reported-by: Adrian Koshka <adriankoshcha@teknik.io>
Tested-by: Adrian Koshka <adriankoshcha@teknik.io>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The debug directory size specified in the data directory should cover
only the EFI_IMAGE_DEBUG_DIRECTORY_ENTRY structure, not the whole of
the .debug section.
Reported-by: Andreas Hammarskjöld <junior@2PintSoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add definitions of protocols observed to be used by wdsmgfw.efi, and
add a handle name type for ConIn, ConOut, and StdErr.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Commit edf74df ("[pxe] Always reconstruct packet for
PXENV_GET_CACHED_INFO") fixed the problems caused by returning stale
DHCP packets (e.g. from an earlier boot attempt using a different
network device), but broke interoperability with NBPs such as WDS
which may overwrite our cached (fake) DHCP packets and expect the
modified packets to be returned by a subsequent call to
PXENV_GET_CACHED_INFO.
Fix by constructing the fake DHCP packets immediately before
transferring control to a PXE NBP. Calls to PXENV_GET_CACHED_INFO
will now never modify the cached packets.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add debug wrappers for more boot services functions, and print
symbolic values rather than raw numbers where possible.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The raw EFI_HANDLE value is almost never useful to know, and simply
adds noise to the already verbose debug messages. Improve the
legibility of debug messages by using only the name generated by
efi_handle_name().
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
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>
Michael Brown