feat(bls): boot unified kernel images (Type #2 entries) (#111)

* feat(bls): read PE sections without loading the whole image

* feat(bls): produce entries from unified kernel images

* feat(bls): boot unified kernel images as type 2 entries

Scan the EFI/Linux directory, or the new uki-path option of the BLS
generator, for .efi files and turn each one into an entry using the
metadata in its PE sections. Autoconfigure now also detects a disk that
only has unified kernel images. An image with the id of a type 1 entry is
skipped, and boot counting works on the .efi file name.

* fix(boot): rename boot counter files in place instead of copying them

* fix(bls): skip hidden files and keep unified kernel images when the type 1 scan fails

Check file name suffixes without slicing by byte offset, drop the PE
section bytes once an image has been parsed, and only fail the generator
on a type 1 error when unified kernel images are disabled.
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@@ -8,8 +8,15 @@ use anyhow::{Error, Result};
use core::{cmp::Ordering, iter::Peekable, str::FromStr};
mod loader_conf;
mod pe;
mod uki;
pub use loader_conf::{LoaderConf, LoaderTimeout};
pub use pe::{
MAX_SECTION_SIZE, PE_MACHINE_AARCH64, PE_MACHINE_X86_64, PeImage, ReadAt, read_pe,
read_sections,
};
pub use uki::{OsRelease, UKI_SECTIONS};
/// Represents a parsed BLS entry.
/// Fields unrelated to Sprout are not included.
@@ -31,6 +38,10 @@ pub struct BlsEntry {
pub version: Option<String>,
/// The machine id of the entry.
pub machine_id: Option<String>,
/// The command line embedded in a unified kernel image.
pub cmdline: Option<String>,
/// The kernel version embedded in a unified kernel image.
pub uname: Option<String>,
/// The boot counter of the entry, taken from the entry file name.
/// This is never set by parsing the file content.
pub boot_counter: Option<BootCounter>,
@@ -136,6 +147,8 @@ impl FromStr for BlsEntry {
sort_key,
version,
machine_id,
cmdline: None,
uname: None,
boot_counter: None,
})
}
@@ -252,6 +265,16 @@ impl BootCounter {
}
}
/// Splits the `extension` off the end of the file `name`, ignoring case.
/// Returns the stem and the extension as it was written in the name.
pub fn strip_extension<'a>(name: &'a str, extension: &str) -> Option<(&'a str, &'a str)> {
let split = name.len().checked_sub(extension.len())?;
if !name.is_char_boundary(split) || !name[split..].eq_ignore_ascii_case(extension) {
return None;
}
Some(name.split_at(split))
}
/// Converts an EFI `path` to the form used by the bootloader interface: separated by forward
/// slashes, with a leading slash and no repeated or trailing separators.
pub fn boot_path(path: &str) -> String {
@@ -541,6 +564,8 @@ fn compare_alphabetic<I: Iterator<Item = char>>(
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
use alloc::collections::BTreeMap;
use alloc::vec;
use core::cmp::Ordering;
fn sort_entry(
@@ -597,6 +622,212 @@ mod tests {
assert!(!entry.is_bad());
}
/// Builds a minimal PE image with the given sections, each padded to 16 bytes of raw data.
fn pe_image(sections: &[(&str, &[u8])]) -> Vec<u8> {
let table_start = 0x80 + 24;
let data_start = table_start + sections.len() * 40;
let mut image = vec![0u8; data_start];
image[..2].copy_from_slice(b"MZ");
image[0x3c..0x40].copy_from_slice(&0x80u32.to_le_bytes());
image[0x80..0x84].copy_from_slice(b"PE\0\0");
image[0x84..0x86].copy_from_slice(&0x8664u16.to_le_bytes());
image[0x86..0x88].copy_from_slice(&(sections.len() as u16).to_le_bytes());
let mut offset = data_start;
for (index, (name, data)) in sections.iter().enumerate() {
let entry = table_start + index * 40;
image[entry..entry + name.len()].copy_from_slice(name.as_bytes());
let raw_size = data.len().div_ceil(16) * 16;
image[entry + 8..entry + 12].copy_from_slice(&(data.len() as u32).to_le_bytes());
image[entry + 16..entry + 20].copy_from_slice(&(raw_size as u32).to_le_bytes());
image[entry + 20..entry + 24].copy_from_slice(&(offset as u32).to_le_bytes());
let mut raw = data.to_vec();
raw.resize(raw_size, 0);
image.extend_from_slice(&raw);
offset += raw_size;
}
image
}
fn uki_sections(items: &[(&str, &str)]) -> BTreeMap<String, Vec<u8>> {
items
.iter()
.map(|(name, data)| (name.to_string(), data.as_bytes().to_vec()))
.collect()
}
#[test]
fn os_release_parses_plain_quoted_and_commented_lines() {
let os_release = OsRelease::parse(
"# comment\nID=arch\nPRETTY_NAME=\"Arch Linux\"\nNAME='Arch'\n\nBAD LINE\n",
);
assert_eq!(os_release.get("ID"), Some("arch"));
assert_eq!(os_release.get("PRETTY_NAME"), Some("Arch Linux"));
assert_eq!(os_release.get("NAME"), Some("Arch"));
assert_eq!(os_release.get("MISSING"), None);
}
#[test]
fn os_release_unescapes_quoted_values_and_last_value_wins() {
let os_release = OsRelease::parse("A=\"say \\\"hi\\\" \\\\ \\$x\"\nB=1\nB=2\n");
assert_eq!(os_release.get("A"), Some("say \"hi\" \\ $x"));
assert_eq!(os_release.get("B"), Some("2"));
}
#[test]
fn uki_entry_uses_os_release_title_version_and_sort_key() {
let sections = uki_sections(&[
(
".osrel",
"ID=fedora\nIMAGE_ID=coreos\nPRETTY_NAME=\"Fedora CoreOS\"\nVERSION_ID=40\nIMAGE_VERSION=40.1\n",
),
(".uname", "6.5.0\0"),
]);
let entry = BlsEntry::from_uki(&sections, "/EFI/Linux/fedora.efi");
assert_eq!(entry.title.as_deref(), Some("Fedora CoreOS"));
assert_eq!(entry.version.as_deref(), Some("40.1"));
assert_eq!(entry.sort_key.as_deref(), Some("coreos"));
assert_eq!(entry.uname.as_deref(), Some("6.5.0"));
assert_eq!(entry.efi.as_deref(), Some("/EFI/Linux/fedora.efi"));
assert!(entry.options.is_none());
assert!(entry.is_valid());
}
#[test]
fn uki_entry_falls_back_through_the_fields() {
let sections = uki_sections(&[(".osrel", "ID=arch\nBUILD_ID=rolling\n")]);
let entry = BlsEntry::from_uki(&sections, "/EFI/Linux/a.efi");
assert_eq!(entry.title.as_deref(), Some("arch"));
assert_eq!(entry.version.as_deref(), Some("rolling"));
assert_eq!(entry.sort_key.as_deref(), Some("arch"));
let sections = uki_sections(&[(".uname", "6.1.2\n")]);
let entry = BlsEntry::from_uki(&sections, "/EFI/Linux/a.efi");
assert_eq!(entry.title, None);
assert_eq!(entry.version.as_deref(), Some("6.1.2"));
}
#[test]
fn uki_entry_keeps_the_trimmed_cmdline() {
let sections = uki_sections(&[(".cmdline", "root=/dev/sda1 quiet\0\n")]);
let entry = BlsEntry::from_uki(&sections, "/EFI/Linux/a.efi");
assert_eq!(entry.cmdline.as_deref(), Some("root=/dev/sda1 quiet"));
}
#[test]
fn uki_entry_without_sections_is_still_bootable() {
let entry = BlsEntry::from_uki(&BTreeMap::new(), "/EFI/Linux/a.efi");
assert!(entry.title.is_none());
assert!(entry.is_valid());
assert_eq!(entry.chainload_path().as_deref(), Some("EFI\\Linux\\a.efi"));
}
#[test]
fn pe_reads_only_the_requested_sections() {
let image = pe_image(&[
(".text", b"code"),
(".osrel", b"ID=arch\n"),
(".uname", b"6.5"),
]);
let sections = read_sections(&mut image.as_slice(), &[".osrel", ".uname"]).unwrap();
assert_eq!(sections.len(), 2);
assert_eq!(sections[".osrel"], b"ID=arch\n");
assert_eq!(sections[".uname"], b"6.5");
}
#[test]
fn strip_extension_ignores_case_and_keeps_the_original_extension() {
assert_eq!(
strip_extension("foo+3.conf", ".conf"),
Some(("foo+3", ".conf"))
);
assert_eq!(strip_extension("FOO.EFI", ".efi"), Some(("FOO", ".EFI")));
assert_eq!(strip_extension("a.Efi", ".efi"), Some(("a", ".Efi")));
}
#[test]
fn strip_extension_rejects_other_names() {
assert_eq!(strip_extension("foo.conf", ".efi"), None);
assert_eq!(strip_extension("efi", ".efi"), None);
assert_eq!(strip_extension("", ".efi"), None);
assert_eq!(strip_extension("foo.efi.bak", ".efi"), None);
}
#[test]
fn strip_extension_does_not_split_characters() {
// The last bytes of this name are not at a character boundary for a four byte suffix.
assert_eq!(strip_extension("a\u{e9}fi", ".efi"), None);
assert_eq!(
strip_extension("\u{e9}.efi", ".efi"),
Some(("\u{e9}", ".efi"))
);
}
#[test]
fn strip_extension_of_a_bare_extension_has_an_empty_stem() {
assert_eq!(strip_extension(".efi", ".efi"), Some(("", ".efi")));
}
#[test]
fn pe_reports_the_machine_type() {
let image = pe_image(&[(".osrel", b"ID=x")]);
let pe = read_pe(&mut image.as_slice(), &[".osrel"]).unwrap();
assert_eq!(pe.machine, PE_MACHINE_X86_64);
assert!(pe.sections.contains_key(".osrel"));
}
#[test]
fn pe_leaves_out_missing_sections() {
let image = pe_image(&[(".text", b"code")]);
let sections = read_sections(&mut image.as_slice(), &[".osrel"]).unwrap();
assert!(sections.is_empty());
}
#[test]
fn pe_uses_the_virtual_size_not_the_padded_size() {
let image = pe_image(&[(".cmdline", b"quiet")]);
let sections = read_sections(&mut image.as_slice(), &[".cmdline"]).unwrap();
assert_eq!(sections[".cmdline"], b"quiet");
}
#[test]
fn pe_skips_sections_over_the_size_limit() {
let big = vec![b'a'; MAX_SECTION_SIZE as usize + 1];
let image = pe_image(&[(".cmdline", &big), (".osrel", b"ID=x")]);
let sections = read_sections(&mut image.as_slice(), &[".cmdline", ".osrel"]).unwrap();
assert!(!sections.contains_key(".cmdline"));
assert!(sections.contains_key(".osrel"));
}
#[test]
fn pe_rejects_images_that_are_not_pe() {
assert!(read_sections(&mut b"".as_slice(), &[".osrel"]).is_err());
assert!(read_sections(&mut vec![0u8; 0x200].as_slice(), &[".osrel"]).is_err());
let mut image = pe_image(&[(".osrel", b"ID=x")]);
image[0x80] = b'X';
assert!(read_sections(&mut image.as_slice(), &[".osrel"]).is_err());
}
#[test]
fn pe_rejects_a_missing_mz_signature() {
let mut image = pe_image(&[(".osrel", b"ID=x")]);
image[0] = b'X';
assert!(read_sections(&mut image.as_slice(), &[".osrel"]).is_err());
}
#[test]
fn pe_rejects_a_truncated_image() {
let image = pe_image(&[(".osrel", b"ID=archlinux\n")]);
let truncated = &image[..image.len() - 8];
assert!(read_sections(&mut &truncated[..], &[".osrel"]).is_err());
}
#[test]
fn pe_rejects_too_many_sections() {
let mut image = pe_image(&[(".osrel", b"ID=x")]);
image[0x86..0x88].copy_from_slice(&200u16.to_le_bytes());
assert!(read_sections(&mut image.as_slice(), &[".osrel"]).is_err());
}
#[test]
fn boot_path_uses_forward_slashes_and_a_leading_slash() {
assert_eq!(
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use alloc::collections::BTreeMap;
use alloc::string::{String, ToString};
use alloc::vec;
use alloc::vec::Vec;
use anyhow::{Result, bail};
/// The largest section that will be read. UKI metadata sections are small, and a limit
/// keeps a corrupt image from causing a large allocation.
pub const MAX_SECTION_SIZE: u64 = 64 * 1024;
/// The machine type of an x86_64 PE image.
pub const PE_MACHINE_X86_64: u16 = 0x8664;
/// The machine type of an aarch64 PE image.
pub const PE_MACHINE_AARCH64: u16 = 0xaa64;
/// The most sections a PE image can have.
const MAX_SECTIONS: usize = 96;
/// The size of a section table entry.
const SECTION_ENTRY_SIZE: usize = 40;
/// A source of bytes that can be read at an offset, such as a file.
pub trait ReadAt {
/// Fills `buf` with the bytes at `offset`, failing if they can't all be read.
fn read_at(&mut self, offset: u64, buf: &mut [u8]) -> Result<()>;
}
/// Reads from a slice of bytes, which is useful for images that are already in memory.
impl ReadAt for &[u8] {
fn read_at(&mut self, offset: u64, buf: &mut [u8]) -> Result<()> {
let start = usize::try_from(offset)?;
let end = start.checked_add(buf.len());
match end.and_then(|end| self.get(start..end)) {
Some(bytes) => {
buf.copy_from_slice(bytes);
Ok(())
}
None => bail!("read past the end of the image"),
}
}
}
fn u16_at(bytes: &[u8], offset: usize) -> u16 {
u16::from_le_bytes([bytes[offset], bytes[offset + 1]])
}
fn u32_at(bytes: &[u8], offset: usize) -> u32 {
u32::from_le_bytes([
bytes[offset],
bytes[offset + 1],
bytes[offset + 2],
bytes[offset + 3],
])
}
/// The parts of a PE image that were read.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub struct PeImage {
/// The machine type from the COFF header, such as [PE_MACHINE_X86_64].
pub machine: u16,
/// The contents of the wanted sections that were found.
pub sections: BTreeMap<String, Vec<u8>>,
}
/// Reads the sections named in `wanted` from the PE image in `reader`.
/// See [read_pe] for the details.
pub fn read_sections<R: ReadAt>(
reader: &mut R,
wanted: &[&str],
) -> Result<BTreeMap<String, Vec<u8>>> {
Ok(read_pe(reader, wanted)?.sections)
}
/// Reads the machine type and the sections named in `wanted` from the PE image in `reader`.
/// Only the headers and the wanted sections are read, so this is cheap on large images.
/// A wanted section that is missing, or larger than [MAX_SECTION_SIZE], is left out.
/// An image that isn't a valid PE file is an error.
pub fn read_pe<R: ReadAt>(reader: &mut R, wanted: &[&str]) -> Result<PeImage> {
// The DOS header starts with "MZ" and holds the offset of the PE header at 0x3c.
let mut dos = [0u8; 0x40];
reader.read_at(0, &mut dos)?;
if &dos[..2] != b"MZ" {
bail!("not a PE image: missing the MZ signature");
}
let pe_offset = u64::from(u32_at(&dos, 0x3c));
// The PE header is the "PE\0\0" signature followed by the COFF header.
let mut coff = [0u8; 24];
reader.read_at(pe_offset, &mut coff)?;
if &coff[..4] != b"PE\0\0" {
bail!("not a PE image: missing the PE signature");
}
let machine = u16_at(&coff, 4);
let section_count = usize::from(u16_at(&coff, 6));
let optional_header_size = u64::from(u16_at(&coff, 20));
if section_count > MAX_SECTIONS {
bail!("PE image has too many sections: {}", section_count);
}
// The section table follows the optional header.
let mut table = vec![0u8; section_count * SECTION_ENTRY_SIZE];
reader.read_at(pe_offset + 24 + optional_header_size, &mut table)?;
let mut sections = BTreeMap::new();
for entry in table.as_chunks::<SECTION_ENTRY_SIZE>().0 {
// The name is up to eight bytes, padded with NUL.
let name_len = entry[..8].iter().position(|b| *b == 0).unwrap_or(8);
let Ok(name) = core::str::from_utf8(&entry[..name_len]) else {
continue;
};
if !wanted.contains(&name) || sections.contains_key(name) {
continue;
}
// The real size is the virtual size, as the raw size is padded to the file alignment.
let virtual_size = u64::from(u32_at(entry, 8));
let raw_size = u64::from(u32_at(entry, 16));
let raw_offset = u64::from(u32_at(entry, 20));
let size = if virtual_size == 0 {
raw_size
} else {
virtual_size.min(raw_size)
};
if size > MAX_SECTION_SIZE {
continue;
}
let mut data = vec![0u8; size as usize];
reader.read_at(raw_offset, &mut data)?;
sections.insert(name.to_string(), data);
}
Ok(PeImage { machine, sections })
}
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use crate::BlsEntry;
use alloc::collections::BTreeMap;
use alloc::string::{String, ToString};
use alloc::vec::Vec;
/// The PE sections of a unified kernel image that Sprout reads.
pub const UKI_SECTIONS: [&str; 3] = [".osrel", ".cmdline", ".uname"];
/// A parsed os-release file, such as the `.osrel` section of a unified kernel image.
#[derive(Debug, Default, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub struct OsRelease {
fields: BTreeMap<String, String>,
}
impl OsRelease {
/// Parses the `input` as an os-release file, which has one `KEY=value` per line.
/// Lines that aren't a setting are ignored, and the last value of a key is used.
pub fn parse(input: &str) -> Self {
let mut fields = BTreeMap::new();
for line in input.lines() {
let line = line.trim();
if line.is_empty() || line.starts_with('#') {
continue;
}
let Some((key, value)) = line.split_once('=') else {
continue;
};
fields.insert(key.trim().to_string(), unquote(value.trim()));
}
Self { fields }
}
/// Fetches the value of `key`, if it is set.
pub fn get(&self, key: &str) -> Option<&str> {
self.fields.get(key).map(String::as_str)
}
}
/// Removes one pair of matching quotes from `value` and unescapes a double quoted value.
fn unquote(value: &str) -> String {
if value.len() >= 2 && value.starts_with('\'') && value.ends_with('\'') {
return value[1..value.len() - 1].to_string();
}
if value.len() >= 2 && value.starts_with('"') && value.ends_with('"') {
let mut result = String::new();
let mut chars = value[1..value.len() - 1].chars();
while let Some(c) = chars.next() {
// Only these characters can be escaped. Any other backslash is kept as written.
match (c, chars.clone().next()) {
('\\', Some(next @ ('"' | '\\' | '$' | '`'))) => {
result.push(next);
chars.next();
}
_ => result.push(c),
}
}
return result;
}
value.to_string()
}
/// Decodes a section as text, dropping the NUL and whitespace padding at the end.
/// An empty section is treated as missing.
fn section_text(sections: &BTreeMap<String, Vec<u8>>, name: &str) -> Option<String> {
let text = String::from_utf8_lossy(sections.get(name)?);
let text = text.trim_end_matches(|c: char| c == '\0' || c.is_whitespace());
(!text.is_empty()).then(|| text.to_string())
}
impl BlsEntry {
/// Produces an entry for the unified kernel image at `efi_path`, from its PE `sections`.
/// The title comes from `PRETTY_NAME`, then `ID`. The version comes from `IMAGE_VERSION`,
/// `VERSION_ID`, `BUILD_ID`, then the `.uname` section. The sort key comes from `IMAGE_ID`,
/// then `ID`. The embedded command line is kept in `cmdline` and not in `options`, as the
/// image reads its own command line.
pub fn from_uki(sections: &BTreeMap<String, Vec<u8>>, efi_path: &str) -> Self {
let os_release = section_text(sections, ".osrel")
.map(|text| OsRelease::parse(&text))
.unwrap_or_default();
let first = |keys: &[&str]| {
keys.iter()
.filter_map(|key| os_release.get(key))
.find(|value| !value.is_empty())
.map(ToString::to_string)
};
let uname = section_text(sections, ".uname");
Self {
title: first(&["PRETTY_NAME", "ID"]),
version: first(&["IMAGE_VERSION", "VERSION_ID", "BUILD_ID"]).or_else(|| uname.clone()),
sort_key: first(&["IMAGE_ID", "ID"]),
efi: Some(efi_path.to_string()),
cmdline: section_text(sections, ".cmdline"),
uname,
..Self::default()
}
}
}