linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.4 08/78] efi: cper: fix snprintf() use in cper_dimm_err

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Message-Id: <20210608175935.551852021@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue,  8 Jun 2021 20:26:37 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.4 08/78] efi: cper: fix snprintf() use in cper_dimm_err_location()

From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>

[ Upstream commit 942859d969de7f6f7f2659a79237a758b42782da ]

snprintf() should be given the full buffer size, not one less. And it
guarantees nul-termination, so doing it manually afterwards is
pointless.

It's even potentially harmful (though probably not in practice because
CPER_REC_LEN is 256), due to the "return how much would have been
written had the buffer been big enough" semantics. I.e., if the bank
and/or device strings are long enough that the "DIMM location ..."
output gets truncated, writing to msg[n] is a buffer overflow.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Fixes: 3760cd20402d4 ("CPER: Adjust code flow of some functions")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/firmware/efi/cper.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/cper.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/cper.c
index b1af0de2e100..e48298687b76 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/cper.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/cper.c
@@ -263,8 +263,7 @@ static int cper_dimm_err_location(struct cper_mem_err_compact *mem, char *msg)
 	if (!msg || !(mem->validation_bits & CPER_MEM_VALID_MODULE_HANDLE))
 		return 0;
 
-	n = 0;
-	len = CPER_REC_LEN - 1;
+	len = CPER_REC_LEN;
 	dmi_memdev_name(mem->mem_dev_handle, &bank, &device);
 	if (bank && device)
 		n = snprintf(msg, len, "DIMM location: %s %s ", bank, device);
@@ -273,7 +272,6 @@ static int cper_dimm_err_location(struct cper_mem_err_compact *mem, char *msg)
 			     "DIMM location: not present. DMI handle: 0x%.4x ",
 			     mem->mem_dev_handle);
 
-	msg[n] = '\0';
 	return n;
 }
 
-- 
2.30.2