[tip:x86/microcode] x86/microcode/intel: Fix out of bounds memory access to the extended header

[tip-bot for Quentin Casasnovas <tipbot@zytor.com>]

Commit-ID:  d496a002ae1f02425168e5211c237abee588651a
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/d496a002ae1f02425168e5211c237abee588651a
Author:     Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 18:03:59 +0100
Committer:  Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
CommitDate: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 20:30:42 +0100

x86/microcode/intel: Fix out of bounds memory access to the extended header

Improper pointer arithmetics when calculating the address of the
extended header could lead to an out of bounds memory read and kernel
panic.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150225094125.GB30434@chrystal.uk.oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c
index 420eb93..3a6c613 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c
@@ -180,8 +180,7 @@ matching_model_microcode(struct microcode_header_intel *mc_header,
 	if (total_size <= data_size + MC_HEADER_SIZE)
 		return UCODE_NFOUND;
 
-	ext_header = (struct extended_sigtable *)
-		     mc_header + data_size + MC_HEADER_SIZE;
+	ext_header = (void *) mc_header + data_size + MC_HEADER_SIZE;
 	ext_sigcount = ext_header->count;
 	ext_sig = (void *)ext_header + EXT_HEADER_SIZE;
 
@@ -457,8 +456,7 @@ static void __ref show_saved_mc(void)
 		if (total_size <= data_size + MC_HEADER_SIZE)
 			continue;
 
-		ext_header = (struct extended_sigtable *)
-			     mc_saved_header + data_size + MC_HEADER_SIZE;
+		ext_header = (void *) mc_saved_header + data_size + MC_HEADER_SIZE;
 		ext_sigcount = ext_header->count;
 		ext_sig = (void *)ext_header + EXT_HEADER_SIZE;