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Message-ID: <20180430090447.GA6509@pd.tnic>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 11:04:47 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@...iej.szmigiero.name>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/6] x86/microcode/AMD: Add microcode container data
checking functions
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 11:34:07PM +0200, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
> This commit adds verify_container(), verify_equivalence_table(),
Avoid beginning the commit message of a patch with "This patch" or "This
commit". It is tautologically useless.
> verify_patch_section() and verify_patch() functions to the AMD microcode
> update driver.
> These functions check whether a passed buffer contains the relevant
> structure, whether it isn't truncated and (for actual microcode patches)
> whether the size of a patch is not too large for a particular CPU family.
> By adding these checks as separate functions the actual microcode loading
> code won't get interspersed with a lot of checks and so will be more
> readable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <mail@...iej.szmigiero.name>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c | 140 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 137 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c
> index dc8ea9a9d962..4fafaf0852d7 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c
> @@ -73,6 +73,142 @@ static u16 find_equiv_id(struct equiv_cpu_entry *equiv_table, u32 sig)
> return 0;
> }
>
> +/*
> + * Checks whether there is a valid microcode container file at the beginning
> + * of a passed buffer @buf of size @size.
> + * If @early is set this function does not print errors which makes it
> + * usable by the early microcode loader.
> + */
> +static bool verify_container(const u8 *buf, size_t buf_size, bool early)
> +{
> + u32 cont_magic;
> +
> + if (buf_size <= CONTAINER_HDR_SZ) {
> + if (!early)
> + pr_err("Truncated microcode container header.\n");
> +
> + return false;
> + }
> +
> + cont_magic = *(const u32 *)buf;
> + if (cont_magic != UCODE_MAGIC) {
> + if (!early)
> + pr_err("Invalid magic value (0x%08x).\n", cont_magic);
> +
> + return false;
> + }
> +
> + return true;
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Checks whether there is a valid, non-truncated CPU equivalence table
> + * at the beginning of a passed buffer @buf of size @size.
> + * If @early is set this function does not print errors which makes it
> + * usable by the early microcode loader.
> + */
> +static bool verify_equivalence_table(const u8 *buf, size_t buf_size, bool early)
> +{
> + const u32 *hdr = (const u32 *)buf;
> + u32 cont_type, equiv_tbl_len;
> +
> + cont_type = hdr[1];
You need to check the size of buf so that there's enough buf passed in
before you index into it like that.
> + if (cont_type != UCODE_EQUIV_CPU_TABLE_TYPE) {
> + if (!early)
> + pr_err("Wrong microcode container equivalence table type: %u.\n",
> + cont_type);
> +
> + return false;
> + }
> +
> + equiv_tbl_len = hdr[2];
And that.
> + if (equiv_tbl_len < sizeof(struct equiv_cpu_entry) ||
> + buf_size - CONTAINER_HDR_SZ < equiv_tbl_len) {
> + if (!early)
> + pr_err("Truncated equivalence table.\n");
> +
> + return false;
> + }
> +
> + return true;
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Checks whether there is a valid, non-truncated microcode patch section
> + * at the beginning of a passed buffer @buf of size @size.
> + * If @early is set this function does not print errors which makes it
> + * usable by the early microcode loader.
> + */
> +static bool verify_patch_section(const u8 *buf, size_t buf_size, bool early)
> +{
> + const u32 *hdr = (const u32 *)buf;
> + u32 patch_type, patch_size;
> +
> + if (buf_size < SECTION_HDR_SIZE) {
> + if (!early)
> + pr_err("Truncated patch section.\n");
> +
> + return false;
> + }
> +
> + patch_type = hdr[0];
> + patch_size = hdr[1];
> +
> + if (patch_type != UCODE_UCODE_TYPE) {
> + if (!early)
> + pr_err("Invalid type field (%u) in container file section header.\n",
> + patch_type);
> +
> + return false;
> + }
> +
> + if (patch_size < sizeof(struct microcode_header_amd)) {
> + if (!early)
> + pr_err("Patch of size %u too short.\n", patch_size);
> +
> + return false;
> + }
> +
> + if (buf_size - SECTION_HDR_SIZE < patch_size) {
> + if (!early)
> + pr_err("Patch of size %u truncated.\n", patch_size);
> +
> + return false;
> + }
> +
> + return true;
> +}
> +
> +static unsigned int verify_patch_size(u8 family, u32 patch_size,
> + unsigned int size);
No forward declarations pls.
> +
> +/*
> + * Checks whether a microcode patch located at the beginning of a passed
> + * buffer @buf of size @size is not too large for a particular @family
> + * and is not truncated.
> + * If @early is set this function does not print errors which makes it
> + * usable by the early microcode loader.
> + */
> +static bool verify_patch(u8 family, const u8 *buf, size_t buf_size, bool early)
> +{
> + const u32 *hdr = (const u32 *)buf;
> + u32 patch_size = hdr[1];
Just like in the first comment above.
> +
> + /*
> + * The section header length is not included in this indicated size
> + * but is present in the leftover file length so we need to subtract
> + * it before passing this value to the function below.
> + */
> + if (!verify_patch_size(family, patch_size, buf_size - SECTION_HDR_SIZE)) {
> + if (!early)
> + pr_err("Patch of size %u too large.\n", patch_size);
> +
> + return false;
> + }
> +
> + return true;
> +}
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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