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| author | Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com> | 2015-02-26 18:03:59 +0100 |
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| committer | Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> | 2015-03-02 20:30:42 +0100 |
| commit | d496a002ae1f02425168e5211c237abee588651a (patch) | |
| tree | 46ff2fc4f73c0de1758b4f19341d4476bdf6c898 /arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode | |
| parent | c517d838eb7d07bbe9507871fab3931deccff539 (diff) | |
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x86/microcode/intel: Fix out of bounds memory access to the extended header
Improper pointer arithmetics when calculating the address of the
extended header could lead to an out of bounds memory read and kernel
panic.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150225094125.GB30434@chrystal.uk.oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c index 420eb933189c..3a6c6136c9da 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c @@ -180,8 +180,7 @@ matching_model_microcode(struct microcode_header_intel *mc_header, if (total_size <= data_size + MC_HEADER_SIZE) return UCODE_NFOUND; - ext_header = (struct extended_sigtable *) - mc_header + data_size + MC_HEADER_SIZE; + ext_header = (void *) mc_header + data_size + MC_HEADER_SIZE; ext_sigcount = ext_header->count; ext_sig = (void *)ext_header + EXT_HEADER_SIZE; @@ -457,8 +456,7 @@ static void __ref show_saved_mc(void) if (total_size <= data_size + MC_HEADER_SIZE) continue; - ext_header = (struct extended_sigtable *) - mc_saved_header + data_size + MC_HEADER_SIZE; + ext_header = (void *) mc_saved_header + data_size + MC_HEADER_SIZE; ext_sigcount = ext_header->count; ext_sig = (void *)ext_header + EXT_HEADER_SIZE; |