Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: string buffer and password fixes

[Muhammad Bilal]

Hi

Please Ignore this patch series, as I noticed an issue.

I will send a fixed v4 shortly.

On Wed, Sep 30, 2026 at 11:31 PM Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Fix string parsing in hp_get_string_from_buffer() and make over-length
> password writes fail.
>
> Changes in v3:
>  - Drop Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko from patch 2, tidy its includes
>    and declarations (Andy)
>  - Return -E2BIG instead of -ERANGE in patch 3 (Andy)
>  - Drop a blank line in the declarations in patch 1 (Andy)
>
> Changes in v2:
>  - Split the hp_get_string_from_buffer() fix in two (Ilpo)
>  - Drop the lib/string_helpers patch, use @only of string_escape_mem()
>    instead (Andy)
>  - Add patch 3
>
> Muhammad Bilal (3):
>   platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix OOB reads in hp_get_string_from_buffer()
>   platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix non-ASCII truncation in
>     hp_get_string_from_buffer()
>   platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: return -E2BIG from validate_password_input()
>
>  drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/bioscfg.c  | 79 ++++++-------------
>  .../x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/passwdobj-attributes.c  |  7 +-
>  2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.43.0
>