[PATCH 097/102] efivars: explicitly calculate length of VariableName

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Apr 8 09:50:52 UTC 2013


3.5.7.10 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming at intel.com>

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.

Reported-by: Frederic Crozat <fcrozat at suse.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Schroeder <mls at suse.com>
Cc: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee at suse.com>
Cc: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang at redhat.com>
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi at hds.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming at intel.com>
[ Backported for 3.4-stable. Removed workqueue code added in a93bc0c 3.9-rc1. ]
Signed-off-by: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: CAI Qian <caiqian at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
index bfd8f43..9a1968e 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,
-- 
1.8.1.2





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