linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 03/19] firmware_loader: EFI firmware loader must handle pre-allocated buffer

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Date:   Sat, 25 Jul 2020 08:50:33 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, Scott Branden <scott.branden@...adcom.com>,
        Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>, SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.de>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...omium.org>, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 03/19] firmware_loader: EFI firmware loader must
 handle pre-allocated buffer

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:07:00PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 02:36:24PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > The EFI platform firmware fallback would clobber any pre-allocated
> > buffers. Instead, correctly refuse to reallocate when too small (as
> > already done in the sysfs fallback), or perform allocation normally
> > when needed.
> > 
> > Fixes: e4c2c0ff00ec ("firmware: Add new platform fallback mechanism and firm ware_request_platform()")
> 
> "firmware_request_platform()" :)

Weird... I'm not sure where that mangling happened. Perhaps a bad
cut/paste at 80 columns? Hmpf; thanks for catching. I've updated it on
my end (I assume you fixed this manually, though?)

Thanks!

-- 
Kees Cook