On Tue, 03 May, at 05:58:18PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > Well, I suppose we could simply allocate the pointer array and the > single member statically, i.e., > > efi_capsule_header_t capsule1; > efi_capsule_header_t *capsule[] = { &capsule1 }; > > That way, we can get rid of the heap allocation entirely, and we take > the address of the array, i.e., without the & This? --- >From cc80265af2073e99627933d9a2192a175dddaca0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 12:52:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] efi/capsule: Move 'capsule' to the stack in efi_capsule_supported() Dan reports that passing the address of the pointer to the kmalloc()'d memory for 'capsule' is dangerous, "drivers/firmware/efi/capsule.c:109 efi_capsule_supported() warn: did you mean to pass the address of 'capsule' 108 109 status = efi.query_capsule_caps(&capsule, 1, &max_size, reset); ^^^^^^^^ If we modify capsule inside this function call then at the end of the function we aren't freeing the original pointer that we allocated." Ard noted that we don't even need to call kmalloc() since the object we allocate isn't very big and doesn't need to persist after the function returns. Place 'capsule' on the stack instead. Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kweh Hock Leong <hock.leong.kweh@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: joeyli <jlee@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/firmware/efi/capsule.c | 29 +++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/capsule.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/capsule.c index 4703dc9b8fbd..7593108f5402 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/capsule.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/capsule.c @@ -86,33 +86,26 @@ bool efi_capsule_pending(int *reset_type) */ int efi_capsule_supported(efi_guid_t guid, u32 flags, size_t size, int *reset) { - efi_capsule_header_t *capsule; + efi_capsule_header_t capsule; + efi_capsule_header_t *cap_list[] = { &capsule }; efi_status_t status; u64 max_size; - int rv = 0; if (flags & ~EFI_CAPSULE_SUPPORTED_FLAG_MASK) return -EINVAL; - capsule = kmalloc(sizeof(*capsule), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!capsule) - return -ENOMEM; - - capsule->headersize = capsule->imagesize = sizeof(*capsule); - memcpy(&capsule->guid, &guid, sizeof(efi_guid_t)); - capsule->flags = flags; + capsule.headersize = capsule.imagesize = sizeof(capsule); + memcpy(&capsule.guid, &guid, sizeof(efi_guid_t)); + capsule.flags = flags; - status = efi.query_capsule_caps(&capsule, 1, &max_size, reset); - if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) { - rv = efi_status_to_err(status); - goto out; - } + status = efi.query_capsule_caps(cap_list, 1, &max_size, reset); + if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) + return efi_status_to_err(status); if (size > max_size) - rv = -ENOSPC; -out: - kfree(capsule); - return rv; + return -ENOSPC; + + return 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(efi_capsule_supported); -- 2.7.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html