From 8f8a0c9e60213d2ab8ea2520ba79c8d1c58fe60a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Takashi Iwai Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 13:31:16 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ACPI: APEI / ERST: Fix missing error handling in erst_reader() commit bb82e0b4a7e96494f0c1004ce50cec3d7b5fb3d1 upstream. 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) Tested-by: Jerry Tang Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai Acked-by: Kees Cook Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- Reading git-format-patch failed