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firmware: dmi_scan: Fix UUID length safety check

PATCH In review Jean Delvare 2 participants 2 messages Apr 9, 2018 – Apr 10, 2018 Dmi/smbios support

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PATCH 1/1 firmware: dmi_scan: Fix UUID length safety check

The test which ensures that the DMI type 1 structure is long enough to hold the UUID is off by one. It would fail if the structure is exactly 24 bytes long, while that's sufficient to hold the UUID.

I don't expect this bug to cause problem in practice because all implementations I have seen had length 8, 25 or 27 bytes, in line with the SMBIOS specifications. But let's fix it still.

Fixes a814c3597a6b ("firmware: dmi_scan: Check DMI structure length")
Cc Mika Westerberg <[email protected]>
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 drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c +1 -1
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ static void __init dmi_save_uuid(const s
 	char *s;
 	int is_ff = 1, is_00 = 1, i;
 
-	if (dmi_ident[slot] || dm->length <= index + 16)
+	if (dmi_ident[slot] || dm->length < index + 16)
 		return;
 
 	d = (u8 *) dm + index;
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Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support
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Quoted 11 lines · Jean Delvare

The test which ensures that the DMI type 1 structure is long enough to hold the UUID is off by one. It would fail if the structure is exactly 24 bytes long, while that's sufficient to hold the UUID.

I don't expect this bug to cause problem in practice because all implementations I have seen had length 8, 25 or 27 bytes, in line with the SMBIOS specifications. But let's fix it still.

Fixes a814c3597a6b ("firmware: dmi_scan: Check DMI structure length")
Cc Mika Westerberg <[email protected]>