ACK: [PATCH] fwts_coreboot_cbmem: fix off-by-one error on last char of buffer
Alex Hung
alex.hung at canonical.com
Tue Aug 14 19:14:01 UTC 2018
On 2018-08-14 06:16 AM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
>
> The coreboot_log has been allocated a size of console->size + 1,
> however, the end of string terminator '\0' is being written one
> character passed the end of the buffer because of an off-by-one
> error. Fix this.
>
> Also insert some spaces as per the fwts coding style.
>
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1394472 ("Out-of-bounds write")
>
> Fixes: c9bf07f25d13 ("fwts_coreboot.c: add cbmem console parser")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> ---
> src/lib/src/fwts_coreboot_cbmem.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/lib/src/fwts_coreboot_cbmem.c b/src/lib/src/fwts_coreboot_cbmem.c
> index 456ac694..52f83f47 100644
> --- a/src/lib/src/fwts_coreboot_cbmem.c
> +++ b/src/lib/src/fwts_coreboot_cbmem.c
> @@ -334,13 +334,13 @@ char *fwts_coreboot_cbmem_console_dump(void)
>
> free(console_p);
>
> - coreboot_log = malloc(console->size+1);
> + coreboot_log = malloc(console->size + 1);
> if (!coreboot_log) {
> free(console);
> return NULL;
> }
>
> - coreboot_log[console->size + 1] = '\0';
> + coreboot_log[console->size] = '\0';
>
> count = memconsole_coreboot_read(console, coreboot_log, 0, console->size);
> free(console);
>
Acked-by: Alex Hung <alex.hung at canonical.com>
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