Re: [PATCH v1] ACPI: sysfs: Enable ACPI sysfs support for CCEL records

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon Mar 20 2023 - 13:40:38 EST


On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 6:34 PM Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
<sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Rafael,
>
> On 3/20/23 10:15 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 8:13 AM Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
> > <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> The Confidential Computing Event Log (CCEL) table provides the address
> >> and length of the CCEL records area in UEFI reserved memory. To access
> >> these records, userspace can use /dev/mem to retrieve them. But
> >> '/dev/mem' is not enabled on many systems for security reasons.
> >>
> >> So to allow user space access these event log records without the
> >> /dev/mem interface, add support to access it via sysfs interface. The
> >> ACPI driver has provided read only access to BERT records area via
> >> '/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/data/BERT' in sysfs. So follow the same way,
> >> and add support for /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/data/CCEL to enable
> >> read-only access to the CCEL recorids area.
> >>
> >> More details about the CCEL table can be found in ACPI specification
> >> r6.5, sec titled "CC Event Log ACPI Table".
> >>
> >> Original-patch-by: Haibo Xu <haibo1.xu@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> [Original patch is for TDEL table, modified it for CCEL support]
> >> Signed-off-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> drivers/acpi/sysfs.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> >> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c b/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c
> >> index 7db3b530279b..afeac925b31b 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c
> >> @@ -458,11 +458,28 @@ static int acpi_bert_data_init(void *th, struct acpi_data_attr *data_attr)
> >> return sysfs_create_bin_file(tables_data_kobj, &data_attr->attr);
> >> }
> >>
> >> +static int acpi_ccel_data_init(void *th, struct acpi_data_attr *data_attr)
> >> +{
> >> + struct acpi_table_ccel *ccel = th;
> >> +
> >> + if (ccel->header.length < sizeof(struct acpi_table_ccel) ||
> >> + !(ccel->log_area_start_address) || !(ccel->log_area_minimum_length)) {
> >
> > The inner parens in this line are not necessary AFAICS.
> >
> > Otherwise I have no objections.
>
> Yes. We can do without it. Shall I submit v2 with this change, or you want to
> fix it when applying?

I would appreciate a v2.

> >
> >> + kfree(data_attr);
> >> + return -EINVAL;
> >> + }
> >> + data_attr->addr = ccel->log_area_start_address;
> >> + data_attr->attr.size = ccel->log_area_minimum_length;
> >> + data_attr->attr.attr.name = "CCEL";
> >> +
> >> + return sysfs_create_bin_file(tables_data_kobj, &data_attr->attr);
> >> +}
> >> +
> >> static struct acpi_data_obj {
> >> char *name;
> >> int (*fn)(void *, struct acpi_data_attr *);
> >> } acpi_data_objs[] = {
> >> { ACPI_SIG_BERT, acpi_bert_data_init },
> >> + { ACPI_SIG_CCEL, acpi_ccel_data_init },
> >> };
> >>
> >> #define NUM_ACPI_DATA_OBJS ARRAY_SIZE(acpi_data_objs)
> >> --
>
> --