[PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 012/156] efi/libstub: Fix boundary checking in efi_high_alloc()

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Apr 7 22:49:09 UTC 2015


3.13.11-ckt19 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai at kernel.org>

commit 7ed620bb343f434f8a85f830020c04988df2a140 upstream.

While adding support loading kernel and initrd above 4G to grub2 in legacy
mode, I was referring to efi_high_alloc().
That will allocate buffer for kernel and then initrd, and initrd will
use kernel buffer start as limit.

During testing found two buffers will be overlapped when initrd size is
very big like 400M.

It turns out efi_high_alloc() boundary checking is not right.
end - size will be the new start, and should not compare new
start with max, we need to make sure end is smaller than max.

[ Basically, with the current efi_high_alloc() code it's possible to
  allocate memory above 'max', because efi_high_alloc() doesn't check
  that the tail of the allocation is below 'max'.

  If you have an EFI memory map with a single entry that looks like so,

   [0xc0000000-0xc0004000]

  And want to allocate 0x3000 bytes below 0xc0003000 the current code
  will allocate [0xc0001000-0xc0004000], not [0xc0000000-0xc0003000]
  like you would expect. - Matt ]

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai at kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming at intel.com>
[ luis: backported to 3.16:
  - file rename: drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c ->
    drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c
index b6bffbf..a7bd9d3 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-stub-helper.c
@@ -133,12 +133,12 @@ again:
 		start = desc->phys_addr;
 		end = start + desc->num_pages * (1UL << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT);
 
-		if ((start + size) > end || (start + size) > max)
-			continue;
-
-		if (end - size > max)
+		if (end > max)
 			end = max;
 
+		if ((start + size) > end)
+			continue;
+
 		if (round_down(end - size, align) < start)
 			continue;
 
-- 
1.9.1





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