On Tue, 14 Apr, at 05:45:52PM, Roy Franz wrote:
> The boot_params structure has a 32 bit field for storing the address of
> the kernel command line. When the EFI stub allocates memory for the command
> line, it allocates at as low and address as possible, but does not ensure
> that the address of memory allocated is below 4G.
> This patch enforces this limit, and the stub now returns an error if the
> command line buffer is allocated at too high of an address.
> For 32 bit systems, the EFI mandated 1-1 memory mapping ensures
> that all memory is 32 bit addressable, so we don't have a problem.
> Also, mixed-mode booting on EFI platforms does not use the stub
> code, so we don't need to handle the case of booting a 32 bit
> kernel on a 64 bit EFI platform.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.fr...@linaro.org>
> ---
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c | 13 +++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c
> b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c
> index ef17683..82dbe27 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c
> @@ -1108,6 +1108,19 @@ struct boot_params *make_boot_params(struct efi_config
> *c)
> cmdline_ptr = efi_convert_cmdline(sys_table, image, &options_size);
> if (!cmdline_ptr)
> goto fail;
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> + /*
> + * hdr->cmd_line_ptr is a 32 bit field, so on 64 bit systems we need
> + * to ensure that the allocated buffer for the commandline is 32 bit
> + * addressable.
> + */
> + if ((u64)(cmdline_ptr) + options_size > (u64)U32_MAX) {
> + efi_printk(sys_table, "Failed to alloc lowmem for command
> line\n");
> + efi_free(sys_table, options_size, (unsigned long)cmdline_ptr);
> + goto fail;
> + }
> +#endif /* CONFIG_X86_64 */
> hdr->cmd_line_ptr = (unsigned long)cmdline_ptr;
>
> hdr->ramdisk_image = 0;
Good catch. But actually, we have boot_params->ext_cmd_line_ptr for
exactly this problem.
So yes, that's a valid bug, but I don't think this is how we should fix
it.
--
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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