[PATCH v4 03/13] ACPI: extlog: Validate elog record length before walking sections

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

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 keeps data_length inside the buffer, so a malformed
record walks the section pointer past elog_buf and reads adjacent memory.
Unlike the GHES paths, extlog never calls cper_estatus_check().

Reject a record longer than ELOG_ENTRY_LEN and run cper_estatus_check()
before walking the sections. The length test alone is not enough: a wrapped
length reads back short and passes it, which cper_estatus_check() catches
via the header check added earlier. Drop a malformed record with
NOTIFY_DONE and without MCE_HANDLED_EXTLOG, since 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")
Reviewed-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
---
 drivers/acpi/acpi_extlog.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_extlog.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_extlog.c
index 7ad3b36013cc..9ad0052aa20c 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_extlog.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_extlog.c
@@ -208,6 +208,10 @@ static int extlog_print(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long val,
 
 	tmp = (struct acpi_hest_generic_status *)elog_buf;
 
+	/* Keep the firmware-controlled data_length inside elog_buf. */
+	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;
-- 
2.54.0