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authorMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>2013-03-01 14:49:12 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-04-05 10:04:36 -0700
commit5c44dddefa48c1a9541e3e451a0f395c6cc57ea0 (patch)
tree3c2c88d6a239a890082b6d3042f2e22542342161 /drivers/firmware
parent2ee4a8e3c9b8225703611097a0a410ca52de3d51 (diff)
efivars: explicitly calculate length of VariableName
commit ec50bd32f1672d38ddce10fb1841cbfda89cfe9a upstream. It's not wise to assume VariableNameSize represents the length of VariableName, as not all firmware updates VariableNameSize in the same way (some don't update it at all if EFI_SUCCESS is returned). There are even implementations out there that update VariableNameSize with values that are both larger than the string returned in VariableName and smaller than the buffer passed to GetNextVariableName(), which resulted in the following bug report from Michael Schroeder, > On HP z220 system (firmware version 1.54), some EFI variables are > incorrectly named : > > ls -d /sys/firmware/efi/vars/*8be4d* | grep -v -- -8be returns > /sys/firmware/efi/vars/dbxDefault-pport8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c > /sys/firmware/efi/vars/KEKDefault-pport8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c > /sys/firmware/efi/vars/SecureBoot-pport8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c > /sys/firmware/efi/vars/SetupMode-Information8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c The issue here is that because we blindly use VariableNameSize without verifying its value, we can potentially read garbage values from the buffer containing VariableName if VariableNameSize is larger than the length of VariableName. Since VariableName is a string, we can calculate its size by searching for the terminating NULL character. [Backported for 3.8-stable. Removed workqueue code added in a93bc0c 3.9-rc1.] Reported-by: Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@suse.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Schroeder <mls@suse.com> Cc: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com> Cc: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com> Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/firmware')
-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/efivars.c27
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
index bfd8f4392492..9a1968e500f1 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
@@ -943,6 +943,31 @@ static ssize_t efivar_delete(struct file *filp, struct kobject *kobj,
}
/*
+ * Returns the size of variable_name, in bytes, including the
+ * terminating NULL character, or variable_name_size if no NULL
+ * character is found among the first variable_name_size bytes.
+ */
+static unsigned long var_name_strnsize(efi_char16_t *variable_name,
+ unsigned long variable_name_size)
+{
+ unsigned long len;
+ efi_char16_t c;
+
+ /*
+ * The variable name is, by definition, a NULL-terminated
+ * string, so make absolutely sure that variable_name_size is
+ * the value we expect it to be. If not, return the real size.
+ */
+ for (len = 2; len <= variable_name_size; len += sizeof(c)) {
+ c = variable_name[(len / sizeof(c)) - 1];
+ if (!c)
+ break;
+ }
+
+ return min(len, variable_name_size);
+}
+
+/*
* Let's not leave out systab information that snuck into
* the efivars driver
*/
@@ -1169,6 +1194,8 @@ int register_efivars(struct efivars *efivars,
&vendor_guid);
switch (status) {
case EFI_SUCCESS:
+ variable_name_size = var_name_strnsize(variable_name,
+ variable_name_size);
efivar_create_sysfs_entry(efivars,
variable_name_size,
variable_name,