linux-kernel - [PATCH] efivarfs: fix abnormal GUID in variable name by using strcpy to replace null with dash

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Date:	Fri,  1 Mar 2013 11:20:18 +0800
From:	"Lee, Chun-Yi" <joeyli.kernel@...il.com>
To:	matt@...sole-pimps.org
Cc:	linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Michael Schroeder <mls@...e.com>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>,
	Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@...onical.com>,
	"Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee@...e.com>
Subject: [PATCH] efivarfs: fix abnormal GUID in variable name by using strcpy to replace null with dash

From: Michael Schroeder <mls@...e.com>

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

That causes by the following statement in efivar_create_sysfs_entry function:

 *(short_name + strlen(short_name)) = '-';
efi_guid_unparse(vendor_guid, short_name + strlen(short_name));

The trailing \0 is overwritten with '-', but the next char doesn't seem to be a \0
as well for HP. So, the second strlen return the point of next '\0', causes there
have garbage string attached before GUID.

Tested on On HP z220.

Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@...onical.com>
Cc: Michael Schroeder <mls@...e.com>
Reported-by: Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@...e.com>
Tested-by: Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@...e.com>
---
 drivers/firmware/efivars.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
index 8bcb595..fbf18ff 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
@@ -1708,7 +1708,7 @@ efivar_create_sysfs_entry(struct efivars *efivars,
 	/* This is ugly, but necessary to separate one vendor's
 	   private variables from another's.         */
 
-	*(short_name + strlen(short_name)) = '-';
+	strcpy(short_name + strlen(short_name), "-");
 	efi_guid_unparse(vendor_guid, short_name + strlen(short_name));
 
 	new_efivar->kobj.kset = efivars->kset;
-- 
1.6.0.2

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