Commit ecea0891 authored by Alper Nebi Yasak's avatar Alper Nebi Yasak Committed by Tzung-Bi Shih

firmware: coreboot: framebuffer: Avoid invalid zero physical address

On ARM64 systems coreboot defers framebuffer allocation to its payload,
to be done by a libpayload function call. In this case, coreboot tables
still include a framebuffer entry with display format details, but the
physical address field is set to zero (as in [1], for example).

Unfortunately, this field is not automatically updated when the
framebuffer is initialized through libpayload, citing that doing so
would invalidate checksums over the entire coreboot table [2].

This can be observed on ARM64 Chromebooks with stock firmware. On a
Google Kevin (RK3399), trying to use coreboot framebuffer driver as
built-in to the kernel results in a benign error. But on Google Hana
(MT8173) and Google Cozmo (MT8183) it causes a hang.

When the framebuffer physical address field in the coreboot table is
zero, we have no idea where coreboot initialized a framebuffer, or even
if it did. Instead of trying to set up a framebuffer located at zero,
return ENODEV to indicate that there isn't one.

[1] https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/17109
[2] https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/8797Signed-off-by: default avatarAlper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJulius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231108182625.46563-1-alpernebiyasak@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarTzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>
parent b85ea95d
......@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ static int framebuffer_probe(struct coreboot_device *dev)
.format = NULL,
};
if (!fb->physical_address)
return -ENODEV;
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(formats); ++i) {
if (fb->bits_per_pixel == formats[i].bits_per_pixel &&
fb->red_mask_pos == formats[i].red.offset &&
......
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