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From: Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com>
To: "Jorge Lopez" <jorge.lopez2@hp.com>,
	"Hans de Goede" <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/3] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix OOB reads in hp_get_string_from_buffer()
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:03:16 +0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260928200318.63383-2-meatuni001@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260928200318.63383-1-meatuni001@gmail.com>

The escape-prescan loop uses 'size' as both loop bound and
accumulator, so each match extends the bound and reads past src[]:

  for (i = 0; i < size; i++)
      if (src[i] == '\\' || ...) size++;

Snapshot the real char count into orig_size and loop against that.

Also fix two adjacent issues: the bounds check omits the 2-byte
length prefix already consumed, and utf16s_to_utf8s() receives the
byte count (src_size) instead of the u16-unit count (orig_size).

Tested on HP EliteBook 840 G2 (Fedora 44, Linux 7.2.7).

Suggested-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Fixes: a34fc329b189 ("platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: bioscfg")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:
 - Split bounds and prescan OOB fix into a separate patch, as
   reviewed by Ilpo Järvinen.

 drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/bioscfg.c | 24 ++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/bioscfg.c b/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/bioscfg.c
index 32b99a862082..ab1eff1deca1 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/bioscfg.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/bioscfg.c
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ int hp_get_string_from_buffer(u8 **buffer, u32 *buffer_size, char *dst, u32 dst_
 	u16 *src = (u16 *)*buffer;
 	u16 src_size;
 
+	u16 orig_size;
 	u16 size;
 	int i;
 	int conv_dst_size;
@@ -67,17 +68,20 @@ int hp_get_string_from_buffer(u8 **buffer, u32 *buffer_size, char *dst, u32 dst_
 	if (*buffer_size < sizeof(u16))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	src_size = *(src++);
-	/* size value in u16 chars */
-	size = src_size / sizeof(u16);
+	src_size = *src;
 
-	/* Ensure there is enough space remaining to read and convert
-	 * the string
+	/* Ensure there is enough space remaining for the length prefix
+	 * just read plus the string data it describes.
 	 */
-	if (*buffer_size < src_size)
+	if (*buffer_size < sizeof(u16) + src_size)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < size; i++)
+	src++;
+	/* size value in u16 chars */
+	orig_size = src_size / sizeof(u16);
+	size = orig_size;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < orig_size; i++)
 		if (src[i] == '\\' ||
 		    src[i] == '\r' ||
 		    src[i] == '\n' ||
@@ -95,7 +99,7 @@ int hp_get_string_from_buffer(u8 **buffer, u32 *buffer_size, char *dst, u32 dst_
 	/*
 	 * convert from UTF-16 unicode to ASCII
 	 */
-	utf16s_to_utf8s(src, src_size, UTF16_HOST_ENDIAN, dst, conv_dst_size);
+	utf16s_to_utf8s(src, orig_size, UTF16_HOST_ENDIAN, dst, conv_dst_size);
 	dst[conv_dst_size] = 0;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < conv_dst_size; i++) {
@@ -121,8 +125,8 @@ int hp_get_string_from_buffer(u8 **buffer, u32 *buffer_size, char *dst, u32 dst_
 		src++;
 	}
 
-	*buffer = (u8 *)src;
-	*buffer_size -= size * sizeof(u16);
+	*buffer += sizeof(u16) + src_size;
+	*buffer_size -= sizeof(u16) + src_size;
 
 	return size;
 }
-- 
2.55.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-09-28 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-28 20:03 [PATCH v2 0/3] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: string buffer and password fixes Muhammad Bilal
2026-09-28 20:03 ` Muhammad Bilal [this message]
2026-09-28 21:26   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix OOB reads in hp_get_string_from_buffer() Andy Shevchenko
2026-09-28 20:03 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix non-ASCII truncation " Muhammad Bilal
2026-09-28 21:32   ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-09-28 20:03 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: return -ERANGE from validate_password_input() Muhammad Bilal
2026-09-28 21:34   ` Andy Shevchenko

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