From: Frediano Ziglio <frediano.ziglio@cloud.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: "Frediano Ziglio" <frediano.ziglio@cloud.com>,
"Daniel P. Smith" <dpsmith@apertussolutions.com>,
"Marek Marczykowski-Górecki" <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>,
"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@suse.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] xen/efi: Fix crash with initial empty EFI options
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2025 14:56:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250708135701.119601-1-frediano.ziglio@cloud.com> (raw)
EFI code path split options from EFI LoadOptions fields in 2
pieces, first EFI options, second Xen options.
"get_argv" function is called first to get the number of arguments
in the LoadOptions, second, after allocating enough space, to
fill some "argc"/"argv" variable. However the first parsing could
be different from second as second is able to detect "--" argument
separator. So it was possible that "argc" was bigger that the "argv"
array leading to potential buffer overflows, in particular
a string like "-- a b c" would lead to buffer overflow in "argv"
resulting in crashes.
Using EFI shell is possible to pass any kind of string in
LoadOptions.
Fixes: bf6501a62e80 ("x86-64: EFI boot code")
Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <frediano.ziglio@cloud.com>
---
Changes since v1:
- use argc to make code more clear;
- fix commit reference;
- improve commit message.
---
xen/common/efi/boot.c | 13 +++++++------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/xen/common/efi/boot.c b/xen/common/efi/boot.c
index 9306dc8953..385292ad4e 100644
--- a/xen/common/efi/boot.c
+++ b/xen/common/efi/boot.c
@@ -350,10 +350,11 @@ static unsigned int __init get_argv(unsigned int argc, CHAR16 **argv,
if ( argc )
{
+ argc = 0;
cmdline = data + *offset;
/* EFI_LOAD_OPTION does not supply an image name as first component. */
if ( *offset )
- *argv++ = NULL;
+ argv[argc++] = NULL;
}
else if ( size > sizeof(*cmdline) && !(size % sizeof(*cmdline)) &&
(wmemchr(data, 0, size / sizeof(*cmdline)) ==
@@ -414,14 +415,14 @@ static unsigned int __init get_argv(unsigned int argc, CHAR16 **argv,
++argc;
else if ( prev && wstrcmp(prev, L"--") == 0 )
{
- --argv;
+ --argc;
if ( options )
*options = cmdline;
break;
}
else
{
- *argv++ = prev = ptr;
+ argv[argc++] = prev = ptr;
*ptr = *cmdline;
*++ptr = 0;
}
@@ -429,7 +430,7 @@ static unsigned int __init get_argv(unsigned int argc, CHAR16 **argv,
prev_sep = cur_sep;
}
if ( argv )
- *argv = NULL;
+ argv[argc] = NULL;
return argc;
}
@@ -1348,8 +1349,8 @@ void EFIAPI __init noreturn efi_start(EFI_HANDLE ImageHandle,
(argc + 1) * sizeof(*argv) +
loaded_image->LoadOptionsSize,
(void **)&argv) == EFI_SUCCESS )
- get_argv(argc, argv, loaded_image->LoadOptions,
- loaded_image->LoadOptionsSize, &offset, &options);
+ argc = get_argv(argc, argv, loaded_image->LoadOptions,
+ loaded_image->LoadOptionsSize, &offset, &options);
else
argc = 0;
for ( i = 1; i < argc; ++i )
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2025-07-08 13:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-08 13:56 Frediano Ziglio [this message]
2025-07-08 15:41 ` [PATCH v2] xen/efi: Fix crash with initial empty EFI options Jan Beulich
2025-07-08 17:22 ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2025-07-09 5:30 ` Jan Beulich
2025-07-09 9:07 ` Frediano Ziglio
2025-07-09 9:11 ` Jan Beulich
2025-07-28 10:39 ` Frediano Ziglio
2025-08-15 10:32 ` Frediano Ziglio
2025-08-29 4:06 ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2025-08-29 7:17 ` Jan Beulich
2025-08-29 9:15 ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
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