This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
efi: be more paranoid about available space when creating variables
to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
efi-be-more-paranoid-about-available-space-when-creating-variables.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 68d929862e29a8b52a7f2f2f86a0600423b093cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 19:40:17 -0500
Subject: efi: be more paranoid about available space when creating variables
From: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 68d929862e29a8b52a7f2f2f86a0600423b093cd upstream.
UEFI variables are typically stored in flash. For various reasons, avaiable
space is typically not reclaimed immediately upon the deletion of a
variable - instead, the system will garbage collect during initialisation
after a reboot.
Some systems appear to handle this garbage collection extremely poorly,
failing if more than 50% of the system flash is in use. This can result in
the machine refusing to boot. The safest thing to do for the moment is to
forbid writes if they'd end up using more than half of the storage space.
We can make this more finegrained later if we come up with a method for
identifying the broken machines.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 106 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 79 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
@@ -419,6 +419,44 @@ get_var_data(struct efivars *efivars, st
return status;
}
+static efi_status_t
+check_var_size_locked(struct efivars *efivars, u32 attributes,
+ unsigned long size)
+{
+ u64 storage_size, remaining_size, max_size;
+ efi_status_t status;
+ const struct efivar_operations *fops = efivars->ops;
+
+ if (!efivars->ops->query_variable_info)
+ return EFI_UNSUPPORTED;
+
+ status = fops->query_variable_info(attributes, &storage_size,
+ &remaining_size, &max_size);
+
+ if (status != EFI_SUCCESS)
+ return status;
+
+ if (!storage_size || size > remaining_size || size > max_size ||
+ (remaining_size - size) < (storage_size / 2))
+ return EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES;
+
+ return status;
+}
+
+
+static efi_status_t
+check_var_size(struct efivars *efivars, u32 attributes, unsigned long size)
+{
+ efi_status_t status;
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&efivars->lock, flags);
+ status = check_var_size_locked(efivars, attributes, size);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&efivars->lock, flags);
+
+ return status;
+}
+
static ssize_t
efivar_guid_read(struct efivar_entry *entry, char *buf)
{
@@ -540,11 +578,16 @@ efivar_store_raw(struct efivar_entry *en
}
spin_lock_irq(&efivars->lock);
- status = efivars->ops->set_variable(new_var->VariableName,
- &new_var->VendorGuid,
- new_var->Attributes,
- new_var->DataSize,
- new_var->Data);
+
+ status = check_var_size_locked(efivars, new_var->Attributes,
+ new_var->DataSize + utf16_strsize(new_var->VariableName, 1024));
+
+ if (status == EFI_SUCCESS || status == EFI_UNSUPPORTED)
+ status = efivars->ops->set_variable(new_var->VariableName,
+ &new_var->VendorGuid,
+ new_var->Attributes,
+ new_var->DataSize,
+ new_var->Data);
spin_unlock_irq(&efivars->lock);
@@ -695,8 +738,7 @@ static ssize_t efivarfs_file_write(struc
u32 attributes;
struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
unsigned long datasize = count - sizeof(attributes);
- unsigned long newdatasize;
- u64 storage_size, remaining_size, max_size;
+ unsigned long newdatasize, varsize;
ssize_t bytes = 0;
if (count < sizeof(attributes))
@@ -715,28 +757,18 @@ static ssize_t efivarfs_file_write(struc
* amounts of memory. Pick a default size of 64K if
* QueryVariableInfo() isn't supported by the firmware.
*/
- spin_lock_irq(&efivars->lock);
- if (!efivars->ops->query_variable_info)
- status = EFI_UNSUPPORTED;
- else {
- const struct efivar_operations *fops = efivars->ops;
- status = fops->query_variable_info(attributes, &storage_size,
- &remaining_size, &max_size);
- }
-
- spin_unlock_irq(&efivars->lock);
+ varsize = datasize + utf16_strsize(var->var.VariableName, 1024);
+ status = check_var_size(efivars, attributes, varsize);
if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) {
if (status != EFI_UNSUPPORTED)
return efi_status_to_err(status);
- remaining_size = 65536;
+ if (datasize > 65536)
+ return -ENOSPC;
}
- if (datasize > remaining_size)
- return -ENOSPC;
-
data = kmalloc(datasize, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!data)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -758,6 +790,19 @@ static ssize_t efivarfs_file_write(struc
*/
spin_lock_irq(&efivars->lock);
+ /*
+ * Ensure that the available space hasn't shrunk below the safe level
+ */
+
+ status = check_var_size_locked(efivars, attributes, varsize);
+
+ if (status != EFI_SUCCESS && status != EFI_UNSUPPORTED) {
+ spin_unlock_irq(&efivars->lock);
+ kfree(data);
+
+ return efi_status_to_err(status);
+ }
+
status = efivars->ops->set_variable(var->var.VariableName,
&var->var.VendorGuid,
attributes, datasize,
@@ -1348,7 +1393,6 @@ static int efi_pstore_write(enum pstore_
efi_guid_t vendor = LINUX_EFI_CRASH_GUID;
struct efivars *efivars = psi->data;
int i, ret = 0;
- u64 storage_space, remaining_space, max_variable_size;
efi_status_t status = EFI_NOT_FOUND;
unsigned long flags;
@@ -1359,11 +1403,11 @@ static int efi_pstore_write(enum pstore_
* size: a size of logging data
* DUMP_NAME_LEN * 2: a maximum size of variable name
*/
- status = efivars->ops->query_variable_info(PSTORE_EFI_ATTRIBUTES,
- &storage_space,
- &remaining_space,
- &max_variable_size);
- if (status || remaining_space < size + DUMP_NAME_LEN * 2) {
+
+ status = check_var_size_locked(efivars, PSTORE_EFI_ATTRIBUTES,
+ size + DUMP_NAME_LEN * 2);
+
+ if (status) {
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&efivars->lock, flags);
*id = part;
return -ENOSPC;
@@ -1541,6 +1585,14 @@ static ssize_t efivar_create(struct file
return -EINVAL;
}
+ status = check_var_size_locked(efivars, new_var->Attributes,
+ new_var->DataSize + utf16_strsize(new_var->VariableName, 1024));
+
+ if (status && status != EFI_UNSUPPORTED) {
+ spin_unlock_irq(&efivars->lock);
+ return efi_status_to_err(status);
+ }
+
/* now *really* create the variable via EFI */
status = efivars->ops->set_variable(new_var->VariableName,
&new_var->VendorGuid,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from matthew.garrett@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/efi-be-more-paranoid-about-available-space-when-creating-variables.patch
queue-3.8/sony-laptop-fully-enable-sny-controlled-modems.patch
queue-3.8/acer-wmi-avoid-the-warning-of-devices-may-be-used-uninitialized.patch
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