efi: Fix a race and a buffer overflow while reading efivars via sysfs
There is a race and a buffer overflow corrupting a kernel memory while reading an EFI variable with a size more than 1024 bytes via the older sysfs method. This happens because accessing struct efi_variable in efivar_{attr,size,data}_read() and friends is not protected from a concurrent access leading to a kernel memory corruption and, at best, to a crash. The race scenario is the following: CPU0: CPU1: efivar_attr_read() var->DataSize = 1024; efivar_entry_get(... &var->DataSize) down_interruptible(&efivars_lock) efivar_attr_read() // same EFI var var->DataSize = 1024; efivar_entry_get(... &var->DataSize) down_interruptible(&efivars_lock) virt_efi_get_variable() // returns EFI_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL but // var->DataSize is set to a real // var size more than 1024 bytes up(&efivars_lock) virt_efi_get_variable() // called with var->DataSize set // to a real var size, returns // successfully and overwrites // a 1024-bytes kernel buffer up(&efivars_lock) This can be reproduced by concurrent reading of an EFI variable which size is more than 1024 bytes: ts# for cpu in $(seq 0 $(nproc --ignore=1)); do ( taskset -c $cpu \ cat /sys/firmware/efi/vars/KEKDefault*/size & ) ; done Fix this by using a local variable for a var's data buffer size so it does not get overwritten. Fixes: e14ab23d ("efivars: efivar_entry API") Reported-by: Bob Sanders <bob.sanders@hpe.com> and the LTP testsuite Signed-off-by: Vladis Dronov <vdronov@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200305084041.24053-2-vdronov@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200308080859.21568-24-ardb@kernel.org
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