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From: Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com>
To: "Jorge Lopez" <jorge.lopez2@hp.com>,
	"Hans de Goede" <hansg@kernel.org>,
	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Andy Shevchenko" <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	"Thomas Weißschuh" <linux@weissschuh.net>,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Muhammad Bilal" <meatuni001@gmail.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v5 8/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: NUL-terminate the SPM auth token
Date: Wed,  7 Oct 2026 18:47:10 +0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261007134711.473857-9-meatuni001@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261007134711.473857-1-meatuni001@gmail.com>

auth_token_store() copies the token with kmemdup(), which does not NUL
terminate it, but hp_calculate_security_buffer() and
hp_populate_security_buffer() use it as a C string and read past the
allocation.

A lone newline (echo > auth_token) is worse: kmemdup() of 0 bytes
returns ZERO_SIZE_PTR, which passes the NULL checks, so a later
attribute write passes it to strlen().

A userspace replica of the two helpers under ASan reports a heap
buffer overflow in hp_calculate_security_buffer() for the unterminated
token and a fault at address 0x10 for the lone newline, and is clean
with this change.

The token is a string, so copy it with kstrndup(), which always NUL
terminates and allocates at least one byte.

Fixes: b2715aa2e135 ("platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: spmobj-attributes")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v5:
 drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/spmobj-attributes.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/spmobj-attributes.c b/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/spmobj-attributes.c
index 25477ecf8822..598bf3e1260e 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/spmobj-attributes.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/spmobj-attributes.c
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ static ssize_t auth_token_store(struct kobject *kobj,
 		length--;
 
 	/* allocate space and copy current auth token */
-	bioscfg_drv.spm_data.auth_token = kmemdup(buf, length, GFP_KERNEL);
+	bioscfg_drv.spm_data.auth_token = kstrndup(buf, length, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!bioscfg_drv.spm_data.auth_token) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto exit_token;
-- 
2.55.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-07 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-07 13:47 [PATCH v5 0/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: buffer handling fixes Muhammad Bilal
2026-10-07 13:47 ` [PATCH v5 1/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix OOB reads in hp_get_string_from_buffer() Muhammad Bilal
2026-10-07 13:47 ` [PATCH v5 2/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix non-ASCII truncation " Muhammad Bilal
2026-10-07 13:47 ` [PATCH v5 3/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: return -E2BIG from validate_password_input() Muhammad Bilal
2026-10-07 13:47 ` [PATCH v5 4/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: allow clearing current_password Muhammad Bilal
2026-10-07 13:47 ` [PATCH v5 5/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix off-by-one in password length check Muhammad Bilal
2026-10-07 13:47 ` [PATCH v5 6/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix heap OOB in hp_enforce_single_line_input() Muhammad Bilal
2026-10-07 13:47 ` [PATCH v5 7/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: validate SPM state returned by firmware Muhammad Bilal
2026-10-07 13:47 ` Muhammad Bilal [this message]
2026-10-07 13:47 ` [PATCH v5 9/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix oops on short integer attribute buffer Muhammad Bilal

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