https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-knodel-terminology-02https://lwn.net/Articles/823224/
This gets rid of most but not occasions of these loaded terms:
1. scsi_id and friends are something that is supposed to be removed from
our tree (see #7594)
2. The test suite defines an API used by the ubuntu CI. We can remove
this too later, but this needs to be done in sync with the ubuntu CI.
3. In some cases the terms are part of APIs we call or where we expose
concepts the kernel names the way it names them. (In particular all
remaining uses of the word "slave" in our codebase are like this,
it's used by the POSIX PTY layer, by the network subsystem, the mount
API and the block device subsystem). Getting rid of the term in these
contexts would mean doing some major fixes of the kernel ABI first.
Regarding the replacements: when whitelist/blacklist is used as noun we
replace with with allow list/deny list, and when used as verb with
allow-list/deny-list.
Cache it early in startup of the system manager, right after `/run/systemd` is
created, so that further access to it can be done without accessing the EFI
filesystem at all.
Quoting https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/14828#issuecomment-635212615:
> [kernel uses] msleep_interruptible() and that means when the process receives
> any kind of signal masked or not this will abort with EINTR. systemd-logind
> gets signals from the TTY layer all the time though.
> Here's what might be happening: while logind reads the EFI stuff it gets a
> series of signals from the TTY layer, which causes the read() to be aborted
> with EINTR, which means logind will wait 50ms and retry. Which will be
> aborted again, and so on, until quite some time passed. If we'd not wait for
> the 50ms otoh we wouldn't wait so long, as then on each signal we'd
> immediately retry again.
This is a safey net anyway, let's make it fully safe: if the data ends
on an uneven byte, then we need to complete the UTF-16 codepoint first,
before adding the final NUL byte pair. Hence let's suffix with three
NULs, instead of just two.
EFI variable access is nowadays subject to rate limiting by the kernel.
Thus, let's cache the results of checking them, in order to minimize how
often we access them.
Fixes: #14828
On my laptop (Lenovo X1carbo 4th) I very occasionally see test-boot-timestamps
fail with this tb:
262/494 test-boot-timestamps FAIL 0.7348453998565674 s (killed by signal 6 SIGABRT)
08:12:48 SYSTEMD_LANGUAGE_FALLBACK_MAP='/home/zbyszek/src/systemd/src/locale/language-fallback-map' SYSTEMD_KBD_MODEL_MAP='/home/zbyszek/src/systemd/src/locale/kbd-model-map' PATH='/home/zbyszek/src/systemd/build:/home/zbyszek/.local/bin:/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/share/Modules/bin:/usr/condabin:/usr/lib64/ccache:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/home/zbyszek/bin:/var/lib/snapd/snap/bin' /home/zbyszek/src/systemd/build/test-boot-timestamps
--- stderr ---
Failed to read $container of PID 1, ignoring: Permission denied
Found container virtualization none.
Failed to get SystemdOptions EFI variable, ignoring: Interrupted system call
Failed to read ACPI FPDT: Permission denied
Failed to read LoaderTimeInitUSec: Interrupted system call
Failed to read EFI loader data: Interrupted system call
Assertion 'q >= 0' failed at src/test/test-boot-timestamps.c:84, function main(). Aborting.
Normally it takes ~0.02s, but here there's a slowdown to 0.73 and things fail with EINTR.
This happens only occasionally, and I haven't been able to capture a strace.
It would be to ignore that case in test-boot-timestamps or always translate
EINTR to -ENODATA. Nevertheless, I think it's better to retry, since this gives
as more resilient behaviour and avoids a transient failure.
See
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/efivarfs/file.c#L75
and
bef3efbeb8.
In SecureBoot mode this is probably not what you want. As your cmdline
is cryptographically signed like when using Type #2 EFI Unified Kernel
Images (https://systemd.io/BOOT_LOADER_SPECIFICATION/) The user's
intention is then that the cmdline should not be modified. You want to
make sure that the system starts up as exactly specified in the signed
artifact.
On my machine stat returns size 22, but only 20 bytes are read:
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/LoaderTimeInitUSec-4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f", O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=22, ...}) = 0
read(3, "\6\0\0\0", 4) = 4
read(3, "7\0001\0001\0003\0005\0002\0007\0\0\0", 18) = 16
Failed to read LoaderTimeInitUSec: Input/output error
Let's just accept that the kernel is returning inconsistent results.
It seems to happen two only two variables on my machine:
/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/LoaderTimeInitUSec-4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f
/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/LoaderTimeMenuUSec-4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f
so it might be related to the way we write them.
This makes the naming more consistent: we now have
bootctl systemd-efi-options,
$SYSTEMD_EFI_OPTIONS
and the SystemdOptions EFI variable.
(SystemdEFIOptions would be redundant, because it is only used in the context
of efivars, and users don't interact with that name directly.)
bootctl is adjusted to use 2sp indentation, similarly to systemctl and other
programs.
Remove the prefix with the old name from 'bootctl systemd-efi-options' output,
since it's redundant and we don't want the old name anyway.
In various circumstances, overriding the kernel commandline can be inconvenient.
People have different bootloaders, and e.g. the grub config can be pretty scary.
grubby helps, but it isn't always available.
This option adds an alternative mechanism that can quite convenient on EFI
systems. cmdline settings have higher priority, because they can be (usually)
changed on the bootloader prompt.
$SYSTEMD_EFI_OPTIONS can be used to override, same as $SYSTEMD_PROC_CMDLINE.
I want to use efivars.[ch] in proc-cmdline.c, but most of the efivars stuff is
not needed in basic/. Move the file from shared/ to basic/, but then move back
most of the higher-level functions to the new shared/efi-loader.c file.
