[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "efi: Do variable name validation tests in utf8" has been added to the 3.19.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    efi: Do variable name validation tests in utf8

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt19.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 961dca76b66dc9b89d3fa445d4b0f789fa23639a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Jones <pjones at redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 14:48:13 -0500
Subject: efi: Do variable name validation tests in utf8

commit 3dcb1f55dfc7631695e69df4a0d589ce5274bd07 upstream.

Actually translate from ucs2 to utf8 before doing the test, and then
test against our other utf8 data, instead of fudging it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at coreos.com>
Tested-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee at suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt at codeblueprint.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c
index 70a0fb1..5c5fde3 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c
@@ -189,10 +189,19 @@ static const struct variable_validate variable_validate[] = {
 };

 bool
-efivar_validate(efi_char16_t *var_name, u8 *data, unsigned long len)
+efivar_validate(efi_char16_t *var_name, u8 *data, unsigned long data_size)
 {
 	int i;
-	u16 *unicode_name = var_name;
+	unsigned long utf8_size;
+	u8 *utf8_name;
+
+	utf8_size = ucs2_utf8size(var_name);
+	utf8_name = kmalloc(utf8_size + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!utf8_name)
+		return false;
+
+	ucs2_as_utf8(utf8_name, var_name, utf8_size);
+	utf8_name[utf8_size] = '\0';

 	for (i = 0; variable_validate[i].validate != NULL; i++) {
 		const char *name = variable_validate[i].name;
@@ -200,28 +209,29 @@ efivar_validate(efi_char16_t *var_name, u8 *data, unsigned long len)

 		for (match = 0; ; match++) {
 			char c = name[match];
-			u16 u = unicode_name[match];
-
-			/* All special variables are plain ascii */
-			if (u > 127)
-				return true;
+			char u = utf8_name[match];

 			/* Wildcard in the matching name means we've matched */
-			if (c == '*')
+			if (c == '*') {
+				kfree(utf8_name);
 				return variable_validate[i].validate(var_name,
-							     match, data, len);
+							match, data, data_size);
+			}

 			/* Case sensitive match */
 			if (c != u)
 				break;

 			/* Reached the end of the string while matching */
-			if (!c)
+			if (!c) {
+				kfree(utf8_name);
 				return variable_validate[i].validate(var_name,
-							     match, data, len);
+							match, data, data_size);
+			}
 		}
 	}

+	kfree(utf8_name);
 	return true;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(efivar_validate);
--
2.7.4