Patch "efi: Do variable name validation tests in utf8" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    efi: Do variable name validation tests in utf8

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     efi-do-variable-name-validation-tests-in-utf8.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 3dcb1f55dfc7631695e69df4a0d589ce5274bd07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 14:48:13 -0500
Subject: efi: Do variable name validation tests in utf8

From: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>

commit 3dcb1f55dfc7631695e69df4a0d589ce5274bd07 upstream.

Actually translate from ucs2 to utf8 before doing the test, and then
test against our other utf8 data, instead of fudging it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@coreos.com>
Tested-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c |   32 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c
@@ -189,10 +189,19 @@ static const struct variable_validate va
 };
 
 bool
-efivar_validate(efi_char16_t *var_name, u8 *data, unsigned long len)
+efivar_validate(efi_char16_t *var_name, u8 *data, unsigned long data_size)
 {
 	int i;
-	u16 *unicode_name = var_name;
+	unsigned long utf8_size;
+	u8 *utf8_name;
+
+	utf8_size = ucs2_utf8size(var_name);
+	utf8_name = kmalloc(utf8_size + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!utf8_name)
+		return false;
+
+	ucs2_as_utf8(utf8_name, var_name, utf8_size);
+	utf8_name[utf8_size] = '\0';
 
 	for (i = 0; variable_validate[i].validate != NULL; i++) {
 		const char *name = variable_validate[i].name;
@@ -200,28 +209,29 @@ efivar_validate(efi_char16_t *var_name,
 
 		for (match = 0; ; match++) {
 			char c = name[match];
-			u16 u = unicode_name[match];
-
-			/* All special variables are plain ascii */
-			if (u > 127)
-				return true;
+			char u = utf8_name[match];
 
 			/* Wildcard in the matching name means we've matched */
-			if (c == '*')
+			if (c == '*') {
+				kfree(utf8_name);
 				return variable_validate[i].validate(var_name,
-							     match, data, len);
+							match, data, data_size);
+			}
 
 			/* Case sensitive match */
 			if (c != u)
 				break;
 
 			/* Reached the end of the string while matching */
-			if (!c)
+			if (!c) {
+				kfree(utf8_name);
 				return variable_validate[i].validate(var_name,
-							     match, data, len);
+							match, data, data_size);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
+	kfree(utf8_name);
 	return true;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(efivar_validate);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pjones@redhat.com are

queue-4.4/efi-do-variable-name-validation-tests-in-utf8.patch
queue-4.4/efi-make-our-variable-validation-list-include-the-guid.patch
queue-4.4/efi-use-ucs2_as_utf8-in-efivarfs-instead-of-open-coding-a-bad-version.patch
queue-4.4/efi-add-pstore-variables-to-the-deletion-whitelist.patch
queue-4.4/efi-make-efivarfs-entries-immutable-by-default.patch
queue-4.4/lib-ucs2_string-correct-ucs2-utf8-conversion.patch
queue-4.4/lib-ucs2_string-add-ucs2-utf8-helper-functions.patch