[PATCH v2] tpm: eventlog: check the payload size before reading tag events
From: Guanglei Zhu
Date: Wed Nov 04 2026 - 06:29:03 EST
The EVENT_TAG branch of get_event_name() casts the event payload to
struct tcpa_pc_event and reads from it:
pc_event = (struct tcpa_pc_event *)event_entry;
switch (do_endian_conversion(pc_event->event_id)) {
...
for (i = 0; i < 20; i++)
d_len += sprintf(&data[2*i], "%02x",
pc_event->event_data[i]);
The log iterators only verify that the event header plus the declared
event_size stays within the log buffer; they do not require the
payload of an EVENT_TAG entry to be large enough for the fields the
branch reads. A truncated entry makes the branch read up to 20 bytes
of event_data[] past the end of the entry, and, for the last entry in
the log, past the end of the buffer itself.
The legacy PC Client spec defines the EV_EVENT_TAG payload as a
TCPA_PC_EVENT - event_id, event_size and event-type-specific data -
so a conformant entry carries the 8-byte header and the hash-type
ids carry a full digest. The log itself, however, is an ACPI table
the firmware leaves in memory: the TPM never measures the log, so
the kernel cannot tell a conformant log from a corrupted one. The
iterators already work on that assumption - they stop once the
declared event_size runs past the buffer end - and the readers
should apply the same rule to what they take off the payload.
Skip entries whose payload cannot even hold the event id, and skip
the 20-byte digest dump when the payload cannot hold the full
tcpa_pc_event header plus the digest, so the branch never reads
beyond the entry it is formatting.
Fixes: 55a82ab3181b ("[PATCH] tpm: add bios measurement log")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Guanglei Zhu <zhugl3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: fold the spec rationale from the list discussion into the commit
log, per review - what the legacy PC Client spec defines for the
tag payload, why the kernel cannot trust the log to conform, and
how the iterators already handle it.
drivers/char/tpm/eventlog/tpm1.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/eventlog/tpm1.c b/drivers/char/tpm/eventlog/tpm1.c
index 0397e33..f93a358 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/eventlog/tpm1.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/eventlog/tpm1.c
@@ -178,6 +178,10 @@ static int get_event_name(char *dest, struct tcpa_event *event,
}
break;
case EVENT_TAG:
+ if (do_endian_conversion(event->event_size) <
+ sizeof(pc_event->event_id))
+ break;
+
pc_event = (struct tcpa_pc_event *)event_entry;
/* ToDo Row data -> Base64 */
@@ -203,6 +207,9 @@ static int get_event_name(char *dest, struct tcpa_event *event,
name = tcpa_pc_event_id_strings[do_endian_conversion
(pc_event->event_id)];
n_len = strlen(name);
+ if (do_endian_conversion(event->event_size) <
+ sizeof(struct tcpa_pc_event) + 20)
+ break;
for (i = 0; i < 20; i++)
d_len += sprintf(&data[2*i], "%02x",
pc_event->event_data[i]);
--
2.43.0