This field contains maximal allowed type for setup_data and
setup_indirect structs.
And finally bump setup_header version in arch/x86/boot/header.S.
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Ross Philipson <ross.philip...@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Snowberg <eric.snowb...@oracle.com>
---
Documentation/x86/boot.rst | 10 +++++++++-
arch/x86/boot/compressed/kernel_info.S | 4 ++++
arch/x86/boot/header.S | 2 +-
arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h | 3 +++
4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.rst b/Documentation/x86/boot.rst
index 23d3726d54fc..63609fd0517f 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/boot.rst
+++ b/Documentation/x86/boot.rst
@@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ Protocol 2.14: BURNT BY INCORRECT COMMIT
ae7e1238e68f2a472a125673ab506d49158c188
(x86/boot: Add ACPI RSDP address to setup_header)
DO NOT USE!!! ASSUME SAME AS 2.13.
-Protocol 2.15: (Kernel 5.3) Added the kernel_info and setup_indirect.
+Protocol 2.15: (Kernel 5.3) Added the kernel_info, kernel_info.setup_type_max
+ and setup_indirect.
============= ============================================================
.. note::
@@ -980,6 +981,13 @@ Offset/size: 0x0004/4
This field contains the size of the kernel_info including kernel_info.header.
It should be used by the boot loader to detect supported fields in the
kernel_info.
+============ ==============
+Field name: setup_type_max
+Offset/size: 0x0008/4
+============ ==============
+
+ This field contains maximal allowed type for setup_data and setup_indirect
structs.
+
The Image Checksum
==================
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kernel_info.S
b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kernel_info.S
index 3f1cb301b9ff..2f28aabf6558 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kernel_info.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kernel_info.S
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#include <asm/bootparam.h>
+
.section ".rodata.kernel_info", "a"
.global kernel_info
@@ -9,4 +11,6 @@ kernel_info:
.ascii "InfO"
/* Size. */
.long kernel_info_end - kernel_info
+ /* Maximal allowed type for setup_data and setup_indirect structs. */
+ .long SETUP_TYPE_MAX
kernel_info_end:
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/header.S b/arch/x86/boot/header.S
index ec6a25a43148..893a456663ab 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/header.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/header.S
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ _start:
# Part 2 of the header, from the old setup.S
.ascii "HdrS" # header signature
- .word 0x020d # header version number (>= 0x0105)
+ .word 0x020f # header version number (>= 0x0105)
# or else old loadlin-1.5 will fail)
.globl realmode_swtch
realmode_swtch: .word 0, 0 # default_switch, SETUPSEG
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h
b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h
index aaaa17fa6ad6..2ba870dae6f3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
#define SETUP_JAILHOUSE 6
#define SETUP_INDIRECT 7
+/* max(SETUP_*) */
+#define SETUP_TYPE_MAX SETUP_INDIRECT
+
/* ram_size flags */
#define RAMDISK_IMAGE_START_MASK 0x07FF
#define RAMDISK_PROMPT_FLAG 0x8000
--
2.11.0
