From: Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com>
To: "Jorge Lopez" <jorge.lopez2@hp.com>,
"Hans de Goede" <hansg@kernel.org>,
"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Andy Shevchenko" <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
"Thomas Weißschuh" <linux@weissschuh.net>,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Muhammad Bilal" <meatuni001@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v5 1/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix OOB reads in hp_get_string_from_buffer()
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2026 18:47:03 +0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261007134711.473857-2-meatuni001@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261007134711.473857-1-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).
Fixes: a34fc329b189 ("platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: bioscfg")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v5:
drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/bioscfg.c | 26 +++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/bioscfg.c b/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/bioscfg.c
index 32b99a862082..919735ddba25 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/bioscfg.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/bioscfg.c
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ 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;
@@ -67,17 +67,21 @@ 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' ||
@@ -95,7 +99,7 @@ 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++) {
@@ -121,8 +125,8 @@ 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;
}
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-07 13:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-07 13:47 [PATCH v5 0/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: buffer handling fixes Muhammad Bilal
2026-10-07 13:47 ` Muhammad Bilal [this message]
2026-10-07 13:47 ` [PATCH v5 2/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix non-ASCII truncation in hp_get_string_from_buffer() Muhammad Bilal
2026-10-07 13:47 ` [PATCH v5 3/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: return -E2BIG from validate_password_input() Muhammad Bilal
2026-10-07 13:47 ` [PATCH v5 4/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: allow clearing current_password Muhammad Bilal
2026-10-07 13:47 ` [PATCH v5 5/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix off-by-one in password length check Muhammad Bilal
2026-10-07 13:47 ` [PATCH v5 6/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix heap OOB in hp_enforce_single_line_input() Muhammad Bilal
2026-10-14 13:10 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2026-10-07 13:47 ` [PATCH v5 7/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: validate SPM state returned by firmware Muhammad Bilal
2026-10-07 13:47 ` [PATCH v5 8/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: NUL-terminate the SPM auth token Muhammad Bilal
2026-10-07 13:47 ` [PATCH v5 9/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix oops on short integer attribute buffer Muhammad Bilal
2026-10-14 13:11 ` [PATCH v5 0/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: buffer handling fixes Ilpo Järvinen
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