From: Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com>
To: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Cc: jorge.lopez2@hp.com, hansg@kernel.org,
ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com, linux@weissschuh.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 5/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix off-by-one heap OOB write in audit_log_entries_show
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:18:25 +0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260812111829.172273-6-meatuni001@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260812111829.172273-1-meatuni001@gmail.com>
The per-iteration guard in audit_log_entries_show() is:
if (ret < 0 || (LOG_ENTRY_SIZE * i) > PAGE_SIZE)
break;
...
memcpy(buf, audit_log_buffer, LOG_ENTRY_SIZE);
buf += LOG_ENTRY_SIZE;
At i == 256 (PAGE_SIZE / LOG_ENTRY_SIZE), LOG_ENTRY_SIZE * i equals
PAGE_SIZE exactly, which is not ">" PAGE_SIZE, so the loop does not
break and instead writes another LOG_ENTRY_SIZE (16) bytes starting at
offset 4096 of the page-sized sysfs output buffer, one entry past its
end.
This needs the BIOS to report more than 256 audit log entries, which
already exceeds this driver's own documented LOG_MAX_ENTRIES of 254,
so it requires a non-compliant or corrupted firmware value rather than
the roughly 85 million entries an unrelated integer-overflow read of
this code might suggest.
Fix by checking the bound against the offset the write is about to
reach, (i + 1), instead of the offset already written.
Fixes: 63e8f906e94e ("platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: surestart-attributes")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com>
---
drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/surestart-attributes.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/surestart-attributes.c b/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/surestart-attributes.c
index b57e42f29282..6b63fdb84606 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/surestart-attributes.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/surestart-attributes.c
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ static ssize_t audit_log_entries_show(struct kobject *kobj,
HPWMI_SURESTART,
audit_log_buffer, 1, 128);
- if (ret < 0 || (LOG_ENTRY_SIZE * i) > PAGE_SIZE) {
+ if (ret < 0 || (LOG_ENTRY_SIZE * (i + 1)) > PAGE_SIZE) {
/*
* Encountered a failure while reading
* individual logs. Only a partial list of
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-12 11:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-12 11:18 [PATCH v2 0/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix multiple memory safety bugs and parsing errors Muhammad Bilal
2026-08-12 11:18 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix off-by-one write in hp_get_string_from_buffer Muhammad Bilal
2026-08-12 11:18 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix heap OOB read in sk_store and kek_store Muhammad Bilal
2026-08-12 11:18 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix heap OOB read on empty password write Muhammad Bilal
2026-08-12 11:18 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix 16-byte heap overflow for empty auth token Muhammad Bilal
2026-08-18 12:05 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2026-08-12 11:18 ` Muhammad Bilal [this message]
2026-08-18 11:52 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix off-by-one heap OOB write in audit_log_entries_show Ilpo Järvinen
2026-08-12 11:18 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: add missing bounds check in PSWD_ENCODINGS loop Muhammad Bilal
2026-08-12 11:18 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix new_password_store overwriting current_password Muhammad Bilal
2026-08-12 11:18 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix ORD_LIST_ELEMENTS never being parsed Muhammad Bilal
2026-08-12 11:18 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: advance elem past consumed array elements Muhammad Bilal
2026-08-18 12:08 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix multiple memory safety bugs and parsing errors Ilpo Järvinen
2026-08-18 19:16 ` Muhammad Bilal
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