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efivars: explicitly calculate length of VariableName
authorMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Fri, 1 Mar 2013 14:49:12 +0000 (14:49 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 5 Apr 2013 16:26:16 +0000 (09:26 -0700)
commite8e61d5e2676e78594ad4f173b113a082a59ec84
tree77a905f9c718155098728bf1433bb81af547292f
parentc4ecd5ed2ac30f54ae58de2f8ee36226033fb236
efivars: explicitly calculate length of VariableName

commit ec50bd32f1672d38ddce10fb1841cbfda89cfe9a upstream.

It's not wise to assume VariableNameSize represents the length of
VariableName, as not all firmware updates VariableNameSize in the same
way (some don't update it at all if EFI_SUCCESS is returned). There
are even implementations out there that update VariableNameSize with
values that are both larger than the string returned in VariableName
and smaller than the buffer passed to GetNextVariableName(), which
resulted in the following bug report from Michael Schroeder,

  > 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

The issue here is that because we blindly use VariableNameSize without
verifying its value, we can potentially read garbage values from the
buffer containing VariableName if VariableNameSize is larger than the
length of VariableName.

Since VariableName is a string, we can calculate its size by searching
for the terminating NULL character.

[Backported for 3.8-stable. Removed workqueue code added in
a93bc0c 3.9-rc1.]

Reported-by: Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@suse.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Schroeder <mls@suse.com>
Cc: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
Cc: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com>
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/firmware/efivars.c