[PATCH v3 10/10] ACPI: extlog: Validate elog record length before walking sections

[Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>]

sashiko-bot flagged a missing bounds check on data_length that allows
an out-of-bounds read of elog_buf.

extlog_print() copies a fixed ELOG_ENTRY_LEN (4096) bytes from the elog
record into elog_buf, then walks the sections using the
firmware-controlled data_length. Nothing checks that data_length stays
within the buffer, so a malformed record can walk the section pointer
past elog_buf and read adjacent memory.

Unlike the GHES paths, extlog never calls cper_estatus_check(). Reject a
record whose length exceeds ELOG_ENTRY_LEN and run cper_estatus_check()
before walking the sections.

A malformed record is now dropped with NOTIFY_DONE without setting
MCE_HANDLED_EXTLOG, reflecting that extlog did not consume it.

Reported-by: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260714231835.303081-1-dave.jiang@intel.com?part=6
Fixes: f6ec01da40e4 ("ACPI: extlog: Handle multiple records")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
---
v3:
- New patch. sashiko's review of v2 pointed out extlog walks the elog
  sections without the cper_estatus_check() bound the GHES paths use.
---
 drivers/acpi/acpi_extlog.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_extlog.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_extlog.c
index 1fbaf134c04e..30863fd3f5b0 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_extlog.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_extlog.c
@@ -200,6 +200,13 @@ static int extlog_print(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long val,
 
 	tmp = (struct acpi_hest_generic_status *)elog_buf;
 
+	/*
+	 * data_length is firmware controlled, so make sure the record and its
+	 * sections stay within elog_buf before anything walks them.
+	 */
+	if (cper_estatus_len(tmp) > ELOG_ENTRY_LEN || cper_estatus_check(tmp))
+		return NOTIFY_DONE;
+
 	if (!ras_userspace_consumers()) {
 		print_extlog_rcd(NULL, tmp, cpu);
 		goto out;
-- 
2.55.0