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)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:12:08 +0000 (12:12 +0100)
commitbb82e0b4a7e96494f0c1004ce50cec3d7b5fb3d1
treef911ce192d8e59d8f979a1dd56f7f70b1d8a237d
parent1291a0d5049dbc06baaaf66a9ff3f53db493b19b
ACPI: APEI / ERST: Fix missing error handling in erst_reader()

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)
Cc: All applicable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
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>
drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c