Re: [PATCH] efivarfs: fix abnormal GUID in variable name by usingstrcpy to replace null with dash

From: joeyli
Date: Wed Mar 06 2013 - 02:41:17 EST


æ äï2013-03-06 æ 15:34 +0800ïjoeyli æåï
> Hi Matt,
>
> æ åï2013-03-02 æ 07:41 +0800ïjoeyli æåï
> > æ äï2013-03-01 æ 16:31 +0000ïMatt Fleming æåï
> > > On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 15:17 +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 11:20 +0800, Lee, Chun-Yi wrote:
> > > > > From: Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxxx>
> > > > >
> > > > > On HP z220 system (firmware version 1.54), some EFI variables
> are incorrectly
> > > > > named :
> > > > >
> > > > > ls -d /sys/firmware/efi/vars/*8be4d* | grep -v -- -8be returns
> > > >
> > /sys/firmware/efi/vars/dbxDefault-pport8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c
> > > >
> > /sys/firmware/efi/vars/KEKDefault-pport8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c
> > > >
> > /sys/firmware/efi/vars/SecureBoot-pport8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c
> > > >
> > /sys/firmware/efi/vars/SetupMode-Information8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c
> > > > >
> > > > > That causes by the following statement in
> efivar_create_sysfs_entry function:
> > > > >
> > > > > *(short_name + strlen(short_name)) = '-';
> > > > > efi_guid_unparse(vendor_guid, short_name +
> strlen(short_name));
> > > > >
> > > > > The trailing \0 is overwritten with '-', but the next char
> doesn't seem to be a \0
> > > > > as well for HP. So, the second strlen return the point of next
> '\0', causes there
> > > > > have garbage string attached before GUID.
> > > > >
> > > > > Tested on On HP z220.
> > > >
> > > > What's more likely happening here is that GetNextVariable() is
> broken on
> > > > this HP firmware and variable_name_size is too big for the given
> > > > variable in variable_name. We've seen other reports of similar
> bugs,
> > > >
> > > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47631
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Could someone try this patch against Linus' tree?
> > >
> > > Urgh, and here's a version that isn't utterly, utterly broken...
> >
> > Thanks for Matt's patch, we will try it!
> >
> > Joey Lee
>
> Frederic confirmed your patch works to him for fix issue on HP
> machine.
>
> Tested-by: Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxx>

Sorry forgot paste variable_name_size from log:

efivars: bogus variable_name_size: 34 1024
efivars: bogus variable_name_size: 22 1024

The GetNextVariable() always return variable_name_size is 1024.


Thanks a lot!
Joey Lee

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