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Michael Brown 5abbcab909 [build] Mark MS-CHAPv2 as permitted for UEFI Secure Boot
MS-CHAPv2 and the underlying DES algorithm are cryptographically
obsolete, but still relatively widely used.  There is no impact to
UEFI Secure Boot from using these obsolete algorithms: the only
untrusted inputs are the username, password, and received network
packets, and all of these are thoroughly validated before use.

Review these files and mark them as permitted for UEFI Secure Boot.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2026-02-03 16:02:19 +00:00
Michael Brown 301b1ecf2b [build] Mark compressed image tools as permitted for UEFI Secure Boot
Some older distributions (such as RHEL 8) provide their AArch64
kernels as gzip-compressed EFI binaries (with no self-decompressing
EFI stub present).  We therefore enable support for gzip images by
default for arm64 EFI builds.

Review the files used to implement the gzip (and zlib) formats and
mark these as permitted for UEFI Secure Boot.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2026-01-28 16:34:57 +00:00
Michael Brown c07fb71a91 [build] Mark FDT management tools as permitted for UEFI Secure Boot
An EFI build of iPXE does not directly make use of a flattened device
tree (FDT) itself, but may pass on a device tree that the user chose
to download using the "fdt" command.

Review the simple files used to implement the "fdt" command and mark
these as permitted for UEFI Secure Boot.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2026-01-28 16:20:51 +00:00
Michael Brown 6b17d320db [build] Mark core arm64 files as permitted for UEFI Secure Boot
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2026-01-28 15:44:58 +00:00
Michael Brown f1bcd160ac [xen] Update to latest stable release headers
Update to the headers from the latest Xen stable release, and mark all
imported headers as permitted for UEFI Secure Boot.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2026-01-28 15:26:11 +00:00
Michael Brown 8e31ac9fc3 [build] Mark dummy architecture headers as permitted for UEFI Secure Boot
The dummy header files in include/bits/*.h are placeholders for
architectures that do not need to define any architecture-specific
functionality in these areas.  Mark these trivial files as permitted
for UEFI Secure Boot.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2026-01-28 13:55:45 +00:00
Michael Brown 40c2db9d67 [build] Mark direct kernel loading as forbidden for UEFI Secure Boot
Our long-standing policy for EFI platforms is that we support invoking
binary executables only via the LoadImage() and StartImage() boot
services calls, so that all security policy decisions are delegated to
the platform firmware.

Most binary executable formats that we support are BIOS-only and
cannot in any case be linked in to an EFI executable.  The only
cross-platform format is the generic Linux kernel image format as used
for RISC-V (and potentially also for AArch64).

Mark all files associated with direct loading of a kernel binary as
explicitly forbidden for UEFI Secure Boot.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2026-01-28 13:38:20 +00:00
Michael Brown 4db03054d5 [build] Mark GDB stub as forbidden for UEFI Secure Boot
Enabling the GDB debugger functionality would provide an immediate and
trivial Secure Boot exploit.  Mark all GDB-related files as explicitly
forbidden for UEFI Secure Boot.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2026-01-28 13:20:38 +00:00
Michael Brown 03a906a9f3 [build] Mark Realtek driver as permitted for UEFI Secure Boot
The Realtek driver and its dependencies are cleanly structured, easy
to review, directly maintained, and very well tested.  Review these
files and mark them as permitted for UEFI Secure Boot.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2026-01-28 13:04:07 +00:00
Michael Brown adcaaf9b93 [build] Mark known reviewed files as permitted for UEFI Secure Boot
Some past security reviews carried out for UEFI Secure Boot signing
submissions have covered specific drivers or functional areas of iPXE.
Mark all of the files comprising these areas as permitted for UEFI
Secure Boot.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2026-01-14 16:10:29 +00:00
Michael Brown 6cccb3bdc0 [build] Mark core files as permitted for UEFI Secure Boot
Mark all files used in a standard build of bin-x86_64-efi/snponly.efi
as permitted for UEFI Secure Boot.  These files represent the core
functionality of iPXE that is guaranteed to have been included in
every binary that was previously subject to a security review and
signed by Microsoft.  It is therefore legitimate to assume that at
least these files have already been reviewed to the required standard
multiple times.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2026-01-14 13:25:34 +00:00
Michael Brown b09af00fab [efi] Mark imported EDK2 headers as permitted for Secure Boot
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2026-01-13 15:18:16 +00:00
Michael Brown c5ae9ec99c [efi] Update to current EDK2 headers
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2026-01-13 13:58:17 +00:00
Michael Brown e61c636bf3 [build] Define a mechanism for marking Secure Boot permissibility
Not all files within the iPXE codebase are allowed to be included in
UEFI Secure Boot signed builds.

Following the pattern used by the existing FILE_LICENCE() macro and
licensing check: define a FILE_SECBOOT() macro that can be used to
declare a file as being permitted (or forbidden) in a UEFI Secure Boot
signed build, and a corresponding build target to perform the check.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2026-01-13 13:49:27 +00:00
Michael Brown 2110afb351 [tcp] Report TCP statistics via the "ipstat" command
Gather some basic statistics on TCP connections to allow out-of-order
packets and duplicate packets to be observed even in non-debug builds.

Report these statistics via the existing "ipstat" command, rather than
introducing a separate "tcpstat" command, on the basis that we do not
need the additional overhead of a separate command.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2026-01-09 16:36:52 +00:00
Michael Brown ff6d612e72 [neighbour] Add the ability to artificially delay outbound packets
Add a fault-injection mechanism that allows an arbitrary delay
(configured via config/fault.h) to be added to any packets transmitted
via the neighbour resolution mechanism, as a way of reproducing
symptoms that occur only on high-latency connections such as a
satellite uplink.

The neighbour discovery mechanism is not a natural conceptual fit for
this artficial delay, since neighbour discovery has nothing to do with
transmit latency.  However, the neighbour discovery mechanism happens
to already include a deferred transmission queue that can be (ab)used
to implement this artifical delay in a minimally intrusive way.  In
particular, there is zero code size impact on a standard build with no
artificial delay configured.

Implementing the delay only for packets transmitted via neighbour
resolution has the side effect that broadcast packets (such as DHCP
and ARP) are unaffected.  This is likely in practice to produce a
better emulation of a high-latency uplink scenario, where local
network traffic such as DHCP and ARP will complete quickly and only
the subsequent TCP/UDP traffic will experience delays.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2026-01-06 15:38:50 +00:00
Michael Brown aabfb8a94d [neighbour] Use discovery protocol field to identify incomplete neighbours
Use the discovery protocol pointer field (rather than the running
state of the discovery timer) to determine whether or not neighbour
discovery is ongoing, as a precursor to allowing the timer to be
(ab)used for adding deliberate latency to transmitted packets.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2026-01-06 15:19:15 +00:00
Michael Brown d0e01bb3fc [neighbour] Always use network device's own link-layer address
The API for neighbour_tx() allows for an explicit source link-layer
address, but this will be ignored if the packet is deferred for
transmission after completion of neighbour discovery.  The network
device's own link-layer address will always be used when sending
neighbour discovery packets, and when sending any deferred packets
after discovery completes.

All callers pass in the network device's own link-layer address as the
source address anyway, and so this explicit source link-layer address
is never used for any meaningful purpose.

Simplify the neighbour_tx() API by removing the ability to pass in an
explicit source link-layer address.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2026-01-05 14:22:16 +00:00
Michael Brown 7c39c04a53 [crypto] Allow for zero-length big integer literals
Ensure that zero-length big integer literals are treated as containing
a zero value.  Avoid tests on every big integer arithmetic operation
by ensuring that bigint_required_size() always returns a non-zero
value: the zero-length tests can therefore be restricted to only
bigint_init() and bigint_done().

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-12-29 14:01:46 +00:00
Michael Brown 5aab6b7a31 [crypto] Add ECDSA-based TLS cipher suites
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-12-19 18:18:45 +00:00
Michael Brown d6eeb9039f [crypto] Add OID-identified algorithms for ECDSA with SHA2 hash family
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-12-19 15:26:29 +00:00
Michael Brown d14066e924 [crypto] Allow ecPublicKey to be identified as a public-key algorithm
Add a public-key algorithm to the definition of the "ecPublicKey"
OID-identified algorithm, and move this definition to ecdsa.c to avoid
unconditionally dragging in ECDSA support.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-12-19 15:26:29 +00:00
Michael Brown 4e3cbeef83 [crypto] Add support for ECDSA signatures
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-12-19 10:06:50 +00:00
Michael Brown cfbf0da93c [crypto] Allow for an explicit representation of point at infinity
ECDSA requires the ability to add two arbitrary curve points, either
of which may legitimately be the point at infinity.

Update the API so that curves must choose an explicit affine
representation for the point at infinity, and provide a method to test
for this representation.  Multiplication and addition will now allow
this representation to be provided as an input, and will not fail if
the result is the point at infinity.  Callers must explicitly check
for the point at infinity where needed (e.g. after computing the ECDHE
shared secret curve point).

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-12-18 15:47:29 +00:00
Michael Brown fb1188936c [crypto] Generalise rsa_parse_integer() to asn1_enter_unsigned()
ECDSA signature values and private keys are fixed-length unsigned
integers modulo N (the group order of the elliptic curve) and are
therefore most naturally represented in ASN.1 using ASN1_OCTET_STRING.

Private key representations do use ASN1_OCTET_STRING, but signature
values tend to use ASN1_INTEGER, which adds no value but does ensure
that the encoding becomes variable-length and requires handling a
pointless extra zero byte if the MSB of the unsigned value happens to
be set.

RSA also makes use of ASN1_INTEGER for modulus and exponent values.
Generalise the existing rsa_parse_integer() to asn1_enter_unsigned()
to allow this code to be reused for ECDSA.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-12-11 15:09:58 +00:00
Michael Brown c7f129fede [crypto] Allow for addition of arbitrary Weierstrass curve points
ECDSA verification requires the ability to add two arbitrary curve
points (as well as the ability to multiply a curve point by a scalar).

Add an elliptic curve method to perform arbitrary point addition.
Pass in curve points as affine coordinates: this will require some
redundant conversions between affine coorfinates and the internal
representation as projective coordinates in Montgomery form, but keeps
the API as simple as possible.  Since we do not expect to perform a
high volume of ECDSA signature verifications, these redundant
calculations are an acceptable cost for keeping the code simple.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-12-08 14:24:24 +00:00
Michael Brown d3adea8380 [crypto] Expose the (prime) group order as an elliptic curve property
ECDSA requires knowledge of the group order of the base point, and is
defined only for curves with a prime group order (e.g. the NIST
curves).

Add the group order as an explicit property of an elliptic curve, and
add tests to verify that the order is correct.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-12-05 15:10:22 +00:00
Michael Brown e50e30a7f8 [crypto] Expose the base point as an explicit elliptic curve property
Add the generator base point as an explicit property of an elliptic
curve, and remove the ability to pass a NULL to elliptic_multiply() to
imply the use of the generator base point.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-12-05 13:09:07 +00:00
Michael Brown 88c3e68dfb [http] Abort connections after a long period of inactivity
Once an HTTP download has started (i.e. once all request headers have
been sent), we generally have no more data to transmit.  If an HTTP
connection dies silently (e.g. due to a network failure, a NIC driver
bug, or a server crash) then there is no mechanism that will currently
detect this situation by default.

We do send TCP keep-alives (to maintain state in intermediate routers
and firewalls), but we do not attempt to elicit a response from the
server.  RFC 9293 explicitly states that the absence of a response to
a TCP keep-alive probe must not be interpreted as indicating a dead
connection, since TCP cannot guarantee reliable delivery of packets
that do not advance the sequence number.

Scripts may use the "--timeout" option to impose an overall time limit
on downloads, but this mechanism is off by default and requires
additional thought and configuration by the user (which goes against
iPXE's general philosophy of being as automatic as possible).

Add an idle connection watchdog timer which will cause the HTTP
download to abort after 120 seconds of inactivity.  Activity is
defined as an I/O buffer being delivered to the HTTP transaction's
upstream data transfer interface.

Downloads over HTTPS may experience a substantial delay until the
first recorded activity, since all TLS negotiation (including
cross-chained certificate downloads and OCSP checks) must complete
before any application data can be sent.  We choose to not reset the
watchdog timer during TLS negotiation, on the basis that 120 seconds
is already an unreasonably long time for a TLS negotiation to take to
complete.  If necessary, resetting the watchdog timer could be
accomplished by having the TLS layer deliver zero-length I/O buffers
(via xfer_seek()) to indicate forward progress being made.

When using PeerDist content encoding, the downloaded content
information is not passed through to the content-decoded interface and
so will not be classed as activity.  Any activity in the individual
PeerDist block downloads (either from peers or as range requests from
the origin server) will be classed as activity in the overall
download, since individual block downloads do not buffer data but
instead pass it through directly via the PeerDist download
multiplexer.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-12-04 14:47:45 +00:00
Michael Brown 1a789c1daa [http] Rename connection retry timer
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-12-04 14:47:45 +00:00
Michael Brown 64f936d5df [crypto] Allow for OID-identified elliptic curve algorithms
Elliptic curves in X.509 certificates are identified via the
id-ecPublicKey object identifier (1.2.840.10045.2.1), with the
specific elliptic curve identified via a second OID in the algorithm
parameters.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-12-03 15:45:14 +00:00
Michael Brown 3e566818f7 [crypto] Remove obsolete maximum output length method
Now that public-key algorithms use ASN.1 builders to dynamically
allocate the output data, there is no further need for callers to be
able to determine the maximum output length.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-12-02 13:13:01 +00:00
Michael Brown 1ccc320ee9 [crypto] Construct asymmetric ciphered data using ASN.1 builders
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-12-02 13:12:25 +00:00
Michael Brown d4258272c6 [crypto] Construct signatures using ASN.1 builders
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-12-01 16:02:54 +00:00
Michael Brown 8cd963ab96 [crypto] Pass signatures for verification as ASN.1 cursors
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-12-01 14:50:54 +00:00
Michael Brown c9c0282594 [crypto] Restructure handling of ASN.1 bit strings
Signature values in ASN.1 tend to be encoded as bit strings rather
than octet strings.  In practice, no existent signature scheme uses a
non-integral number of bytes.

Switch to using a standard ASN.1 cursor to hold signature values, to
simplify consuming code.  Restructure the API to treat entering an
ASN.1 bit string in the same way as entering any other ASN.1 type.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-12-01 13:09:45 +00:00
Michael Brown 19dffdc836 [efi] Allow for creating devices with no EFI parent device
On some systems (observed on an AWS m8g.medium instance in eu-west-2),
the UEFI firmware fails to enumerate some of the underlying hardware
devices.  On these systems, we cannot comply with the UEFI device
model by adding our SNP device as a child of the hardware device and
appending to the parent hardware device path, since no parent hardware
device has been created.

Work around these systems by allowing for the creation of SNP devices
with no parent device.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-11-25 12:04:43 +00:00
Michael Brown dfea3bbfad [pci] Use runtime selectable PCI I/O API for EFI cloud builds
On some systems (observed on an AWS m8g.medium instance in eu-west-2),
the UEFI firmware omits the PCI host bridge drivers for all but the
first PCI bus.  The observable result is that any devices on other PCI
buses (such as the ENA network device) are not enumerated by the UEFI
firmware and are therefore unusable by iPXE.

Support these systems by switching to using PCIAPI_CLOUD for EFI cloud
builds, trying the EFI PCI I/O API first and falling back to direct
access (via ECAM) for devices that the UEFI firmware has failed to
enumerate itself.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-11-24 23:25:31 +00:00
Michael Brown 9c1ac48bcf [pci] Allow probing permission to vary by range
Make pci_can_probe() part of the runtime selectable PCI I/O API, and
defer this check to the per-range API.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-11-24 23:16:32 +00:00
Michael Brown ff1a17dc7e [pci] Use linker tables for runtime selectable PCI APIs
Use the linker table mechanism to enumerate the underlying PCI I/O
APIs, to allow PCIAPI_CLOUD to become architecture-independent code.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-11-24 20:54:01 +00:00
Michael Brown 3383474653 [efi] Wrap a selection of runtime services calls
Allow DEBUG=efi_wrap to trace various runtime services calls as well
as the existing boot services calls.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-11-13 15:02:03 +00:00
Michael Brown 0a8e34657e [efi] Add image security database GUID definition
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-11-12 12:09:40 +00:00
Michael Brown 5c135240bc [efi] Add Microsoft vendor GUID definition
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-11-12 12:01:37 +00:00
Michael Brown 5154b6fcc5 [efi] Add storage security command protocol header and GUID definition
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-11-11 23:24:22 +00:00
Michael Brown 27ec3c76ab [efi] Update to current EDK2 headers
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-11-11 23:24:22 +00:00
Michael Brown 3a2f75b789 [efi] Mark Arm/ProcessorBind.h as a non-imported header
Support for ARM32 has been removed from the EDK2 codebase.  However,
we may as well retain the ability to build iPXE for existing EFI
platforms.

Add an iPXE include guard to this file so that the EDK2 header import
script will no longer attempt to import it from the EDK2 tree.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-11-11 16:14:22 +00:00
Michael Brown f0d978d8b4 [efi] Mark Ip4Config.h as a non-imported header
The Ip4Config.h header has been removed from the EDK2 codebase as
obsolete.  However, we may still encounter it in the wild and so it is
useful to retain the GUID and the corresponding protocol name for
debug messages.

Add an iPXE include guard to this file so that the EDK2 header import
script will no longer attempt to import it from the EDK2 tree.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-11-11 16:12:26 +00:00
Michael Brown f9b9ef578a [efi] Mark UgaDraw.h as a non-imported header
The UgaDraw.h header has been removed from the EDK2 codebase as
obsolete.  However, we may still encounter it in the wild and so it is
useful to retain the GUID and the corresponding protocol name for
debug messages.

Add an iPXE include guard to this file so that the EDK2 header import
script will no longer attempt to import it from the EDK2 tree.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-11-11 16:09:27 +00:00
Michael Brown 360aa7064f [efi] Skip including the EDK2 ProcessorBind.h header for 32-bit RISC-V
We currently include the EDK2 RiscV64/ProcessorBind.h header when
building for 32-bit RISC-V, as a placeholder since there is no support
for 32-bit RISC-V in upstream EDK2.

This causes errors when attempting to use the EDK2 VA_START() et al
macros, since RiscV64/ProcessorBind.h ends up defining UINTN with a
size different from the size of a pointer.

Fix by falling back to the generic definitions for UINTN etc (as used
for EFI_HOSTONLY) whenever we don't have an architecture-specific
ProcessorBind.h header available.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-11-11 15:41:42 +00:00
Michael Brown df7f59d47a [pci] Move ECAM pci_can_probe() definition to correct header file
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2025-11-11 13:13:54 +00:00