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authorArend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>2018-11-29 18:12:27 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-02-12 19:47:04 +0100
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firmware/efi: Add NULL pointer checks in efivars API functions
[ Upstream commit ab2180a15ce54739fed381efb4cb12e78dfb1561 ] Since commit: ce2e6db554fa ("brcmfmac: Add support for getting nvram contents from EFI variables") we have a device driver accessing the efivars API. Several functions in the efivars API assume __efivars is set, i.e., that they will be accessed only after efivars_register() has been called. However, the following NULL pointer access was reported calling efivar_entry_size() from the brcmfmac device driver: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000008 pgd = 60bfa5f1 [00000008] *pgd=00000000 Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] SMP ARM ... Hardware name: NVIDIA Tegra SoC (Flattened Device Tree) Workqueue: events request_firmware_work_func PC is at efivar_entry_size+0x28/0x90 LR is at brcmf_fw_complete_request+0x3f8/0x8d4 [brcmfmac] pc : [<c0c40718>] lr : [<bf2a3ef4>] psr: a00d0113 sp : ede7fe28 ip : ee983410 fp : c1787f30 r10: 00000000 r9 : 00000000 r8 : bf2b2258 r7 : ee983000 r6 : c1604c48 r5 : ede7fe88 r4 : edf337c0 r3 : 00000000 r2 : 00000000 r1 : ede7fe88 r0 : c17712c8 Flags: NzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment none Control: 10c5387d Table: ad16804a DAC: 00000051 Disassembly showed that the local static variable __efivars is NULL, which is not entirely unexpected given that it is a non-EFI platform. So add a NULL pointer check to efivar_entry_size(), and to related functions while at it. In efivars_register() a couple of sanity checks are added as well. Reported-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Eric Snowberg <eric.snowberg@oracle.com> Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com> Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: YiFei Zhu <zhuyifei1999@gmail.com> Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181129171230.18699-9-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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