* Matt Fleming <[email protected]> wrote:
> Folks, please pull the following fix from Laszlo that ensures we don't
> perform an out-of-bounds access when matching EFI variable names
> against the variable protection whitelist.
>
> The following changes since commit c3b46c73264b03000d1e18b22f5caf63332547c9:
>
> Linux 4.6-rc4 (2016-04-17 19:13:32 -0700)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi.git
> tags/efi-urgent
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 630ba0cc7a6dbafbdee43795617c872b35cde1b4:
>
> efi: Fix out-of-bounds read in variable_matches() (2016-04-22 19:41:41
> +0100)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> * Avoid out-of-bounds access in the efivars code when performing
> string matching on converted EFI variable names - Laszlo Ersek
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Laszlo Ersek (1):
> efi: Fix out-of-bounds read in variable_matches()
>
> drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
Pulled into tip:efi/urgent, thanks Matt!
Ingo
