Re: [PATCH 2/4] ACPI: battery: Fix buffer overread if not NUL-terminated

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Jan 17 2023 - 09:43:26 EST


On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 9:51 AM Armin Wolf <W_Armin@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If the buffer containing string data is not NUL-terminated
> (which is perfectly legal according to the ACPI specification),
> the acpi battery driver might not honor its length.

Note that this is about extracting package entries of type ACPI_TYPE_BUFFER.

And please spell ACPI in capitals.

> Fix this by limiting the amount of data to be copied to
> the buffer length while also using strscpy() to make sure
> that the resulting string is always NUL-terminated.

OK

> Also use '\0' instead of a plain 0.

Why? It's a u8, not a char.

> Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@xxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/battery.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/battery.c b/drivers/acpi/battery.c
> index fb64bd217d82..9f6daa9f2010 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/battery.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/battery.c
> @@ -438,15 +438,24 @@ static int extract_package(struct acpi_battery *battery,
> if (offsets[i].mode) {
> u8 *ptr = (u8 *)battery + offsets[i].offset;

I would add

u32 len = 32;

>
> - if (element->type == ACPI_TYPE_STRING ||
> - element->type == ACPI_TYPE_BUFFER)
> + switch (element->type) {

And here I would do

case ACPI_TYPE_BUFFER:
if (len > element->buffer.length + 1)
len = element->buffer.length + 1;

fallthrough;
case ACPI_TYPE_STRING:
strscpy(ptr, element->buffer.pointer, len);
break;
case ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER:

and so on.

> + case ACPI_TYPE_STRING:
> strscpy(ptr, element->string.pointer, 32);
> - else if (element->type == ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER) {
> - strncpy(ptr, (u8 *)&element->integer.value,
> - sizeof(u64));
> +
> + break;
> + case ACPI_TYPE_BUFFER:
> + strscpy(ptr, element->buffer.pointer,
> + min_t(u32, element->buffer.length + 1, 32));
> +
> + break;
> + case ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER:
> + strncpy(ptr, (u8 *)&element->integer.value, sizeof(u64));
> ptr[sizeof(u64)] = 0;
> - } else
> - *ptr = 0; /* don't have value */
> +
> + break;
> + default:
> + *ptr = '\0'; /* don't have value */
> + }
> } else {
> int *x = (int *)((u8 *)battery + offsets[i].offset);
> *x = (element->type == ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER) ?
> --