linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86/mm, efi: Check for valid image type

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Date:	Wed, 22 Jul 2015 17:32:44 +0200
From:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To:	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>
Cc:	x86@...nel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH] x86/mm, efi: Check for valid image type

I usually see
|Ignoring BGRT: failed to allocate memory for image (wanted 264301314 bytes)
|Ignoring BGRT: failed to allocate memory for image (wanted 3925872891 bytes)

sometimes I get

|------------[ cut here ]------------
|WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at mm/early_ioremap.c:136 __early_ioremap.constprop.0+0x113/0x1d3()
…
| [<ffffffff81b3de8c>] __early_ioremap.constprop.0+0x113/0x1d3
| [<ffffffff81b3e106>] early_ioremap+0x13/0x15
| [<ffffffff81b2c4a9>] efi_bgrt_init+0x1e2/0x27d
…

now and then. The data behind that pointer changes on each boot because
nobody preserves the content across kexec.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
---

I don't know much about the requirement of having the .bmp in memory all the
time. Would it be a bad thing to compress the bmp and uncompress on cat from
userland? In my case the bmp has 272 KiB and LZO gets it down to 12KiB,
XZ 7.4KiB.

 arch/x86/platform/efi/efi-bgrt.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi-bgrt.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi-bgrt.c
index d7f997f7c26d..59710f0875bb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi-bgrt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi-bgrt.c
@@ -79,6 +79,10 @@ void __init efi_bgrt_init(void)
 	memcpy_fromio(&bmp_header, image, sizeof(bmp_header));
 	if (ioremapped)
 		early_iounmap(image, sizeof(bmp_header));
+	if (bmp_header.id != 0x4d42) {
+		pr_err("BGRT: Not a valid BMP file.\n");
+		return;
+	}
 	bgrt_image_size = bmp_header.size;
 
 	bgrt_image = kmalloc(bgrt_image_size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
-- 
2.1.4

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