Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] ACPI: ensure acpi_parse_entries_array() does not access non-existent table data

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 2:39 AM, Al Stone <ahs3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For ACPI tables that have subtables, acpi_parse_entries_array() gets used
> to step through each of the subtables in memory.  The primary loop for this
> was checking that the beginning location of the subtable being examined
> plus the length of struct acpi_subtable_header was not beyond the end of
> the complete ACPI table; if it wasn't, the subtable could be examined, but
> if it was the loop would terminate as it should.
>
> In the middle of this subtable loop, a callback is used to examine the
> subtable in detail.
>
> Should the callback function try to examine elements of the subtable that
> are located past the subtable header, and the ACPI table containing this
> subtable has an incorrect length, it is possible to access either invalid
> or protected memory and cause a fault.  And, the length of struct
> acpi_subtable_header will always be smaller than the length of the actual
> subtable.
>
> To fix this, we make the main loop check that the beginning of the
> subtable being examined plus the actual length of the subtable does
> not go past the end of the enclosing ACPI table.  While this cannot
> protect us from malicious callback functions, it can prevent us from
> failing because of some poorly constructed ACPI tables.
>
> Found by inspection.  There is no functional change to existing code
> that is known to work when calling acpi_parse_entries_array().
>
> Signed-off-by: Al Stone <ahs3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/tables.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/tables.c b/drivers/acpi/tables.c
> index 4a3410aa6540..82c3e2c52dd9 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/tables.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/tables.c
> @@ -274,8 +274,7 @@ acpi_parse_entries_array(char *id, unsigned long table_size,
>         entry = (struct acpi_subtable_header *)
>             ((unsigned long)table_header + table_size);
>
> -       while (((unsigned long)entry) + sizeof(struct acpi_subtable_header) <
> -              table_end) {
> +       while ((unsigned long)entry + entry->length <= table_end) {
>                 if (max_entries && count >= max_entries)
>                         break;
>
> --

This breaks the CPU enumeration on my Dell XPS13 9360 (possibly among
other things), so I'm dropping it.  I can send you acpidump output
from that machine if need be.

Thanks,
Rafael