linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] efi/x86: move efi bgrt init code to early init code

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Date:   Fri, 13 Jan 2017 00:11:53 +0100
From:   Nicolai Stange <nicstange@...il.com>
To:     Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
Cc:     Nicolai Stange <nicstange@...il.com>,
        Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        x86@...nel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, hpa@...or.com,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        mika.penttila@...tfour.com, bhsharma@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] efi/x86: move efi bgrt init code to early init code

On Fri, Jan 13 2017, Dave Young wrote:

> On 01/12/17 at 12:54pm, Nicolai Stange wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 12 2017, Dave Young wrote:
>> 
>> > -void __init efi_bgrt_init(void)
>> > +void __init efi_bgrt_init(struct acpi_table_header *table)
>> >  {
>> > -	acpi_status status;
>> >  	void *image;
>> >  	struct bmp_header bmp_header;
>> >  
>> >  	if (acpi_disabled)
>> >  		return;
>> >  
>> > -	status = acpi_get_table("BGRT", 0,
>> > -	                        (struct acpi_table_header **)&bgrt_tab);
>> > -	if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
>> > -		return;
>> 
>> 
>> Not sure, but wouldn't it be safer to reverse the order of this assignment
>> 
>> > +	bgrt_tab = *(struct acpi_table_bgrt *)table;
>
> Nicolai, sorry, I'm not sure I understand the comment, is it about above line?
> Could you elaborate a bit?
>
>> 
>> and this length check
>> 
>
> I also do not get this :(

Ah sorry, my point is this: the length check should perhaps be made
before doing the assignment to bgrt_tab because otherwise, we might end
up reading from invalid memory.

I.e. if (struct acpi_table_bgrt *)table->length < sizeof(bgrt_tab), then

  bgrt_tab = *(struct acpi_table_bgrt *)table;

would read past the table's end.

I'm not sure whether this is a real problem though -- that is, whether
this read could ever hit some unmapped memory.


>> > -	if (bgrt_tab->header.length < sizeof(*bgrt_tab)) {
>> > +	if (bgrt_tab.header.length < sizeof(bgrt_tab)) {
>> >  		pr_notice("Ignoring BGRT: invalid length %u (expected %zu)\n",
>> > -		       bgrt_tab->header.length, sizeof(*bgrt_tab));
>> > +		       bgrt_tab.header.length, sizeof(bgrt_tab));
>> >  		return;
>> >  	}
>> 
>> ?

Thanks,

Nicolai