On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 02:03:23PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 04:21:03PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > SeaBIOS implements the SMBIOS 2.1 entry point which is limited to a
> > maximum length of 0xffff. If the SMBIOS data received from QEMU is large
> > enough, then adding the type 0 table will cause integer overflow. This
> > results in fun behaviour such as a KVM crash, or hangs in SeaBIOS.
> 
> Thanks.  The patch looks fine to me.  However, when I run "git am" on
> your email, it's not taking the patch.  (Perhaps the email whitespace
> got corrupted?)
> 
> ==============
> Applying: smbios: avoid integer overflow adding SMBIOS type 0 table
> error: patch failed: src/fw/biostables.c:462
> error: src/fw/biostables.c: patch does not apply
> Patch failed at 0001 smbios: avoid integer overflow adding SMBIOS type 0 table
> hint: Use 'git am --show-current-patch=diff' to see the failed patch
> When you have resolved this problem, run "git am --continue".
> If you prefer to skip this patch, run "git am --skip" instead.
> To restore the original branch and stop patching, run "git am --abort".
> ==============

This was just sent using  git send-email, so I can't see what would
corrupt it on the sending side. In any case, I've got a copy on github
you can pull from, on my "smbios-len" branch, this commit:

https://github.com/berrange/seabios/commit/4ea6aa9471f79cc81f957d6c0e2bb238d24675e5


Regards,
Daniel
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