On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 01:29:29PM -0700, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:43:30AM -0700, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> > > From: Petr Vandrovec<[email protected]>
> > > 
> > > When TPM2 log has entries with more than 3 digests, or with digests
> > > not listed in the log header, log gets misparsed, eventually
> > > leading to kernel complaint that code tried to vmalloc 512MB of
> > > memory (I have no idea what would happen on bigger system).
> > 
> > It would be easier to follow this if you would give a concrete
> > example of such situation. Since you are contributing this, you
> > must must have bumped into this, haven't you?
> 
> Yes.  Our firmware reports TPM2 log with 4 digests (SHA1, SHA256, SHA384,
> SHA512).  Current code in kernel skips over first 3 digests only, trying to
> parse 4th digest as event length, coming to conclusion that entry is hundred
> of megabytes or few gigabytes long, and then failing to vmalloc() that
> amount of memory.
> 
> You can find parsed textual log at
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7WL11GSMhrQRDBLWjc3bEZQTEk (192KB), and
> binary log at https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7WL11GSMhrQQ1RCMmRmM2paR3c
> (48KB).
> 
> I hit situation with malformed event log on my Dell laptop - after TPM
> firmware got updated from 1.2 to 2.0, chip & everything is reported as TPM2,
> except that log stays in TPM1.2 format.

Great thank you. I think I'll merge this already to my master branch
(not yet the whole series). Thanks a lot for spotting and fixing this
regression.

/Jarkko 

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