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From: Tristan Madani <tristmd@gmail.com>
To: "Hans de Goede" <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@iki.fi>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Tristan Madani <tristan@talencesecurity.com>
Subject: [PATCH] platform/x86: hp-wmi: validate WMI return buffer length
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2026 20:55:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261024205519.4029617-1-tristmd@gmail.com> (raw)

From: Tristan Madani <tristan@talencesecurity.com>

hp_wmi_perform_query() casts the WMI return buffer to struct
bios_return without first checking that the buffer is large enough.
If firmware returns a buffer shorter than sizeof(struct bios_return),
the subsequent subtraction on buffer.length underflows, causing
memcpy to copy a near-maximal number of bytes and crash the kernel.

Add a buffer length check before accessing the return data, matching
the validation already present in the sibling hp-bioscfg driver.

Fixes: c3021ea1beee ("hp-wmi: allow setting input and output buffer sizes separately")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tristan Madani <tristan@talencesecurity.com>
---
 drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-wmi.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-wmi.c
index 615b4cf6fc451..81c0acc874f8e 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-wmi.c
@@ -697,6 +697,13 @@ static int hp_wmi_perform_query(int query, enum hp_wmi_command command,
 		goto out_free;
 	}
 
+	if (obj->buffer.length < sizeof(*bios_return)) {
+		pr_warn("query 0x%x returned undersized buffer (%u < %zu)\n",
+			query, obj->buffer.length, sizeof(*bios_return));
+		ret = -EINVAL;
+		goto out_free;
+	}
+
 	bios_return = (struct bios_return *)obj->buffer.pointer;
 	ret = bios_return->return_code;
 
-- 
2.47.3


             reply	other threads:[~2026-10-24 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-24 20:55 Tristan Madani [this message]
2026-11-09 16:29 ` [PATCH] platform/x86: hp-wmi: validate WMI return buffer length Ilpo Järvinen

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