The message emitted by pre_parse() pretty clearly states the original
intention. Yet what it said wasn't done, and would have been unfriendly to
the user. Hence accesses past the allocated buffer were possible. Insert a
terminating NUL immediately past the data read, to then drop the no longer
applicable message.
NB: The iscntrl() check of just the last byte is more strict than what
pre_parse() would accept without issuing its prior message, yet I'd like
to keep the new logic reasonably simple. Config files shouldn't be huge,
and we shouldn't be _that_ short of memory (or we'd fail elsewhere pretty
soon).
Fixes: bf6501a62e80 ("x86-64: EFI boot code")
Reported-by: Kamil Frankowicz <kamil.frankowicz@cert.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
---
Is the efi_arch_flush_dcache_area() really needed for config files? Else
it could be in an "else" to the "if()" added to read_file(). And then,
how is it guaranteed that data from the area isn't brought back into the
cache (perhaps speculatively)?
In read_section() we could further leverage section alignment padding (if
present, and if filled with zeroes), to limit when to allocate and copy.
Thoughts?
---
v2: Entirely different approach.
--- a/xen/common/efi/boot.c
+++ b/xen/common/efi/boot.c
@@ -833,8 +833,9 @@ static bool __init read_file(EFI_FILE_HA
what = L"Allocation";
file->addr = min(1UL << (32 + PAGE_SHIFT),
HYPERVISOR_VIRT_END - DIRECTMAP_VIRT_START);
+ /* For config files allocate an extra byte to put a NUL there. */
ret = efi_bs->AllocatePages(AllocateMaxAddress, EfiLoaderData,
- PFN_UP(size), &file->addr);
+ PFN_UP(size + (file == &cfg)), &file->addr);
if ( EFI_ERROR(ret) )
goto fail;
@@ -853,6 +854,9 @@ static bool __init read_file(EFI_FILE_HA
efi_arch_flush_dcache_area(file->ptr, file->size);
+ if ( file == &cfg )
+ file->str[file->size] = 0;
+
return true;
fail:
@@ -878,6 +882,23 @@ static bool __init read_section(const EF
file->ptr = ptr;
+ /* For cfg file, if necessary allocate space to put an extra NUL there. */
+ if ( file == &cfg && file->size && !iscntrl(file->str[file->size - 1]) )
+ {
+ EFI_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS addr;
+ EFI_STATUS ret = efi_bs->AllocatePages(AllocateMaxAddress,
+ EfiLoaderData,
+ PFN_UP(file->size + 1), &addr);
+
+ if ( EFI_ERROR(ret) )
+ return false;
+
+ memcpy((void *)addr, ptr, file->size);
+ file->addr = addr;
+ file->need_to_free = true;
+ file->str[file->size] = 0;
+ }
+
handle_file_info(name, file, options);
return true;
@@ -906,9 +927,6 @@ static void __init pre_parse(const struc
else
start = 0;
}
- if ( file->size && end[-1] )
- PrintStr(L"No newline at end of config file,"
- " last line will be ignored.\r\n");
}
static void __init init_secure_boot_mode(void)
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