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ACPI: APEI / ERST: Fix missing error handling in erst_reader()
authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:31:16 +0000 (13:31 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 2 Jan 2018 19:04:56 +0000 (20:04 +0100)
commit4aee80b3d1c9dfe096775b573c7eb647819d845f
tree287280e83ede49d9457b62db903b5ba023a6b5fd
parent8da23652fa4353a2e5281f444aeaa639b452630a
ACPI: APEI / ERST: Fix missing error handling in erst_reader()

commit bb82e0b4a7e96494f0c1004ce50cec3d7b5fb3d1 upstream.

The commit f6f828513290 ("pstore: pass allocated memory region back to
caller") changed the check of the return value from erst_read() in
erst_reader() in the following way:

        if (len == -ENOENT)
                goto skip;
-       else if (len < 0) {
-               rc = -1;
+       else if (len < sizeof(*rcd)) {
+               rc = -EIO;
                goto out;

This introduced another bug: since the comparison with sizeof() is
cast to unsigned, a negative len value doesn't hit any longer.
As a result, when an error is returned from erst_read(), the code
falls through, and it may eventually lead to some weird thing like
memory corruption.

This patch adds the negative error value check more explicitly for
addressing the issue.

Fixes: f6f828513290 (pstore: pass allocated memory region back to caller)
Tested-by: Jerry Tang <jtang@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c