linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] EFI urgent fix

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Message-ID: <20160425152938.GA12231@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 25 Apr 2016 17:29:38 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
	Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
	Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@...il.com>,
	Laszlo Ersek <lersek@...hat.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...eos.com>,
	Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] EFI urgent fix


* Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk> wrote:

> Folks, please pull the following fix from Laszlo that ensures we don't
> perform an out-of-bounds access when matching EFI variable names
> against the variable protection whitelist.
> 
> The following changes since commit c3b46c73264b03000d1e18b22f5caf63332547c9:
> 
>   Linux 4.6-rc4 (2016-04-17 19:13:32 -0700)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi.git tags/efi-urgent
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 630ba0cc7a6dbafbdee43795617c872b35cde1b4:
> 
>   efi: Fix out-of-bounds read in variable_matches() (2016-04-22 19:41:41 +0100)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>  * Avoid out-of-bounds access in the efivars code when performing
>    string matching on converted EFI variable names - Laszlo Ersek
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Laszlo Ersek (1):
>       efi: Fix out-of-bounds read in variable_matches()
> 
>  drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Pulled into tip:efi/urgent, thanks Matt!

	Ingo