Re: [PATCH RFC] brcmfmac: sanitize DMI strings v2
From: Hans de Goede
Date: Mon May 06 2019 - 05:34:06 EST
Hi,
On 06-05-19 11:06, Victor Bravo wrote:
On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 10:13:38AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi,
Hi,
On 05-05-19 17:03, Victor Bravo wrote:
Sanitize DMI strings in brcmfmac driver to make resulting filenames
contain only safe characters. This version replaces all non-printable
characters incl. delete (0-31, 127-255), spaces and slashes with
underscores.
This change breaks backward compatibility, but adds control over strings
passed to firmware loader and compatibility with CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE
which doesn't support spaces in filenames.
Changes from v1: don't revert fresh commit by someone else
Signed-off-by: Victor Bravo <1905@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thank you for the patch, but I'm sorry to say this patch cannot go in as is,
because it will break existing systems.
If you look here:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/brcm
You will see a file named: "brcmfmac43430a0-sdio.ONDA-V80 PLUS.txt" there, which
has a space in its name (and which works fine).
Thanks for the updates. Spaces are actually a problem as files with spaces
don't work when built-in with CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE (which is used with
non-modular kernel containing brcmfmac driver).
If the DMI string contains slashes, they will cause problems
for obvious reasons too.
Right, as said I'm fine with sanitizing the names, so dropping e.g. / chars,
but replacing space with _ will cause wifi to stop working on Onda V80 Plus devices and
we have a clear no regressions policy in the kernel.
I'm fine with doing some sanitizing of the strings, but replacing spaces with _
breaks existing use-cases (will cause a regression for them) and a space is absolutely
a valid character in a filename and the firmware-loader can deal with this just fine.
If the code for building firmwares into the kernel cannot deal with spaces then IMHO
that code should be fixed instead. Have you looked into fixing that?
Yes, but updating CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE to support spaces because of
this looks much like
<snip off-topic remark>
Do you really think it's a good idea to propose that in
this case?
I think expecting spaces in filenames to just work is quite reasonable, after all
its been a long time since we've left DOS-es 8.3 filename limitations.
Have you actually looked at how hard it would be to make filenames with spaces work
with CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE ?
No matter how you spin it, the space problem is a CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE bug, not an
issue with the brcmfmac code.
As for your T100HA example from earlier in this thread, the brcmfmac driver now
also supports getting the firmware from a special EFI nvram variable, which the
T100HA sets, so you do not need to provide a nvram file on the T100HA and things
will still work.
I don't really get this. Can you please suggest how do I make the driver
use something different than "brcmfmac43340-sdio.txt" or
"brcmfmac43340-sdio.ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.-T100HAN.txt" on T100HAN?
If you leave out either file, then with a recent kernel you should see this
brcm_info trigger:
brcmf_info("Using nvram EFI variable\n");
So you should see this message when you do:
dmesg | grep "Using nvram EFI variable"
And the wifi on the T100HAN should just work, without needing to do any
manual config / provide an nvram file in anyway.
I always strive to make hardware just work with Linux and any UEFI x86 machine
using brcmfmac which provides the necessary nvram EFI variable in its firmware
should now just work when booting say a Fedora 30 livecd.
The EFI nvram var support has been tested successfully on the following models:
Acer Iconia Tab8 w1-8
Acer One 10
Asus T100CHI
Asus T100HA
Asus T100TA
Asus T200TA
Lenovo Mixx 2 8
Lenovo Yoga2 tablet 10
Regards,
Hans
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dmi.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dmi.c
index 7535cb0d4ac0..84571e09b465 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dmi.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dmi.c
@@ -23,6 +23,14 @@
/* The DMI data never changes so we can use a static buf for this */
static char dmi_board_type[128];
+/* Array of 128 bits representing 7-bit characters allowed in DMI strings. */
+static unsigned char brcmf_dmi_allowed_chars[] = {
+ 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0xfe, 0x7f, 0xff, 0xff,
+ 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0x7f
+};
+
+#define BRCMF_DMI_SAFE_CHAR '_'
+
struct brcmf_dmi_data {
u32 chip;
u32 chiprev;
@@ -99,6 +107,15 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id dmi_platform_data[] = {
{}
};
+void brcmf_dmi_sanitize(char *dst, const unsigned char *allowed, char safe)
+{
+ while (*dst) {
+ if ((*dst < 0) || !(allowed[*dst / 8] & (1 << (*dst % 8))))
At a first look I have no clue what this code is doing and I honestly do not feel
like figuring it out, this is clever, but IMHO not readable.
Understood. The cluless part actually checks corresponding bit
in allowed array, which is a bit mask describing what characters
are allowed or not.
Please just write this as if (*dst < 0x21 || (*dst > foo && < bar) || etc,
so that a human can actually see in one look what the code is doing.
You may want to wait for Arend to give his opinion before changing this though,
maybe he likes the code as is.
Also note that that should be < 0x20 of course, since we need to preserve spaces
as is to avoid a regression.
This has been already discussed, spaces are a problem. There even was an
opinion that adding the code that doesn't bother with spaces and slashes
might be a regression as well.
Regards,
v.
Regards,
Hans
+ *dst = safe;
+ dst++;
+ }
+}
+
void brcmf_dmi_probe(struct brcmf_mp_device *settings, u32 chip, u32 chiprev)
{
const struct dmi_system_id *match;
@@ -126,6 +143,9 @@ void brcmf_dmi_probe(struct brcmf_mp_device *settings, u32 chip, u32 chiprev)
if (sys_vendor && product_name) {
snprintf(dmi_board_type, sizeof(dmi_board_type), "%s-%s",
sys_vendor, product_name);
+ brcmf_dmi_sanitize(dmi_board_type,
+ brcmf_dmi_allowed_chars,
+ BRCMF_DMI_SAFE_CHAR);
settings->board_type = dmi_board_type;
}
}