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

Johan Hovold
2022-12-19T10:13:14Z

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

drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
index 31a4090c66b3..09716eebe8ac 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
@@ -429,7 +429,9 @@ static int __init efisubsys_init(void)
platform_device_register_simple("efi_secret", 0, NULL, 0);
#endif

- execute_with_initialized_rng(&refresh_nv_rng_seed_nb);
+ if (efi_rt_services_supported(EFI_RT_SUPPORTED_SET_VARIABLE))
+ execute_with_initialized_rng(&refresh_nv_rng_seed_nb);
+
return 0;

err_remove_group:
--
2.37.4