Re: [PATCH] firmware: coreboot: Check size of table entry and split memcpy

From: Kees Cook
Date: Fri Jan 06 2023 - 15:36:16 EST


On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 04:03:35PM +0100, Julius Werner wrote:
> Have you considered adding the flexible array member directly to the
> union in struct coreboot_device instead? I think that would make this
> a bit simpler by not having to copy header and data portion
> separately.

Are you thinking something like this?


diff --git a/drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.c b/drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.c
index 2652c396c423..564a3c908838 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.c
@@ -93,14 +93,19 @@ static int coreboot_table_populate(struct device *dev, void *ptr)
for (i = 0; i < header->table_entries; i++) {
entry = ptr_entry;

- device = kzalloc(sizeof(struct device) + entry->size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (entry->size < sizeof(*entry)) {
+ dev_warn(dev, "coreboot table entry too small!\n");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
+ device = kzalloc(sizeof(device->dev) + entry->size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!device)
return -ENOMEM;

device->dev.parent = dev;
device->dev.bus = &coreboot_bus_type;
device->dev.release = coreboot_device_release;
- memcpy(&device->entry, ptr_entry, entry->size);
+ memcpy(device->raw, entry, entry->size);

switch (device->entry.tag) {
case LB_TAG_CBMEM_ENTRY:
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.h b/drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.h
index 37f4d335a606..d814dca33a08 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.h
+++ b/drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.h
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ struct coreboot_device {
struct lb_cbmem_ref cbmem_ref;
struct lb_cbmem_entry cbmem_entry;
struct lb_framebuffer framebuffer;
+ DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(u8, raw);
};
};


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Kees Cook