From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] x86/boot: Reject truncated acpi_rsdp= values
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:04:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260617130417.36651-4-thorsten.blum@linux.dev> (raw)
cmdline_find_option() returns the full length of the argument value even
if it is truncated. However, get_cmdline_acpi_rsdp() only checks whether
acpi_rsdp= is present and does not reject truncated values that do not
fit in the buffer.
Reject truncated values early to prevent boot_kstrtoul() from parsing a
partial value and thus from silently using the wrong RSDP address.
Fixes: 3c98e71b42a7 ("x86/boot: Add "acpi_rsdp=" early parsing")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpi.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpi.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpi.c
index f196b1d1ddf8..1b5638a8e180 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/acpi.c
@@ -184,8 +184,8 @@ static unsigned long get_cmdline_acpi_rsdp(void)
char val[MAX_ADDR_LEN] = { };
int ret;
- ret = cmdline_find_option("acpi_rsdp", val, MAX_ADDR_LEN);
- if (ret < 0)
+ ret = cmdline_find_option("acpi_rsdp", val, sizeof(val));
+ if (ret < 0 || ret >= sizeof(val))
return 0;
if (boot_kstrtoul(val, 16, &addr))
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