Re: [PATCH v2] efi: random: fix NULL-deref when refreshing seed

Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-12-19T14:00:34Z

On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 11:12:37AM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Do not try to refresh the RNG seed in case the firmware does not support
> setting variables.
>
> This is specifically needed to prevent a NULL-pointer dereference on the
> Lenovo X13s with some firmware revisions, or more generally, whenever
> the runtime services have been disabled (e.g. efi=noruntime or with
> PREEMPT_RT).
>
> Fixes: e7b813b32a42 ("efi: random: refresh non-volatile random seed when RNG is initialized")
> Reported-by: Steev Klimaszewski <steev@kali.org>
> Reported-by: Bjorn Andersson <andersson@kernel.org>
> Tested-by: Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@redhat.com> # sc8280xp-lenovo-thinkpad-x13s
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@kernel.org>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2
> - amend commit message with a comment on this being needed whenever the
> runtime services have been disabled

I'll queue up the one with the amended commit message.

Jason