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From: Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com>
To: jorge.lopez2@hp.com, hansg@kernel.org, ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com
Cc: andy.shevchenko@gmail.com, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/3] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix OOB reads in hp_get_string_from_buffer()
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:30:16 +0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260930183018.49629-2-meatuni001@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260930183018.49629-1-meatuni001@gmail.com>

The escape prescan loop uses 'size' as both its bound and its
accumulator, so each escape character found extends the loop and
reads past the end of src[].

Use the original u16 count as the loop bound. Also include the 2-byte
length prefix in the bounds check, pass the u16 count instead of the
byte count to utf16s_to_utf8s(), and advance the buffer by the bytes
actually consumed instead of the escape-inflated count.

Tested on HP EliteBook 840 G2 (Fedora 44, Linux 7.2.7).

Suggested-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Fixes: a34fc329b189 ("platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: bioscfg")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v3:
 - Drop a blank line in the declarations (Andy)
 - Mention the buffer advance in the changelog

Changes in v2:
 - Split the bounds and prescan fix out of the conversion rewrite (Ilpo)

 drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/bioscfg.c | 25 +++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/bioscfg.c b/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/bioscfg.c
index 309634c..74a9086 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/bioscfg.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/bioscfg.c
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ int hp_get_integer_from_buffer(u8 **buffer, u32 *buffer_size, u32 *integer)
 int hp_get_string_from_buffer(u8 **buffer, u32 *buffer_size, char *dst, u32 dst_size)
 {
 	u16 *src = (u16 *)*buffer;
+	u16 orig_size;
 	u16 src_size;
-
 	u16 size;
 	int i;
 	int conv_dst_size;
@@ -63,17 +63,20 @@ int hp_get_string_from_buffer(u8 **buffer, u32 *buffer_size, char *dst, u32 dst_
 	if (*buffer_size < sizeof(u16))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	src_size = *(src++);
-	/* size value in u16 chars */
-	size = src_size / sizeof(u16);
+	src_size = *src;
 
-	/* Ensure there is enough space remaining to read and convert
-	 * the string
+	/* Ensure there is enough space remaining for the length prefix
+	 * just read plus the string data it describes.
 	 */
-	if (*buffer_size < src_size)
+	if (*buffer_size < sizeof(u16) + src_size)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < size; i++)
+	src++;
+	/* size value in u16 chars */
+	orig_size = src_size / sizeof(u16);
+	size = orig_size;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < orig_size; i++)
 		if (src[i] == '\\' ||
 		    src[i] == '\r' ||
 		    src[i] == '\n' ||
@@ -91,7 +94,7 @@ int hp_get_string_from_buffer(u8 **buffer, u32 *buffer_size, char *dst, u32 dst_
 	/*
 	 * convert from UTF-16 unicode to ASCII
 	 */
-	utf16s_to_utf8s(src, src_size, UTF16_HOST_ENDIAN, dst, conv_dst_size);
+	utf16s_to_utf8s(src, orig_size, UTF16_HOST_ENDIAN, dst, conv_dst_size);
 	dst[conv_dst_size] = 0;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < conv_dst_size; i++) {
@@ -117,8 +120,8 @@ int hp_get_string_from_buffer(u8 **buffer, u32 *buffer_size, char *dst, u32 dst_
 		src++;
 	}
 
-	*buffer = (u8 *)src;
-	*buffer_size -= size * sizeof(u16);
+	*buffer += sizeof(u16) + src_size;
+	*buffer_size -= sizeof(u16) + src_size;
 
 	return size;
 }
-- 
2.43.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-09-30 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-30 18:30 [PATCH v3 0/3] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: string buffer and password fixes Muhammad Bilal
2026-09-30 18:30 ` Muhammad Bilal [this message]
2026-09-30 18:30 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix non-ASCII truncation in hp_get_string_from_buffer() Muhammad Bilal
2026-09-30 18:30 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: return -E2BIG from validate_password_input() Muhammad Bilal
2026-09-30 18:38 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: string buffer and password fixes Muhammad Bilal

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