[PATCH v5 0/9] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: buffer handling fixes
From: Muhammad Bilal
Date: Wed Oct 07 2026 - 10:30:37 EST
Buffer handling fixes for hp-bioscfg.
Patches 1-2 fix hp_get_string_from_buffer(), 3-5 the password
handling, 6 the single line input check, 7-9 SPM and integer parsing.
Changes in v5:
- Fix the multi-line comment style in patch 1 (Andy)
- Reword the changelog of patch 4 (Ilpo)
- Limit the scan in hp_enforce_single_line_input() to the string
instead of copying the input past its first NUL in patch 6 (Ilpo)
- Include array_size.h in patch 7 (Ilpo)
- Copy the token with kstrndup() in patch 8 (Ilpo)
Changes in v4:
- Add patches 4-9
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 (9):
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()
platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: allow clearing current_password
platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix off-by-one in password length check
platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix heap OOB in
hp_enforce_single_line_input()
platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: validate SPM state returned by firmware
platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: NUL-terminate the SPM auth token
platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix oops on short integer attribute buffer
drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/bioscfg.c | 82 ++++++-------------
.../x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/int-attributes.c | 7 +-
.../x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/passwdobj-attributes.c | 18 ++--
.../x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/spmobj-attributes.c | 9 +-
4 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)
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