[PATCH 00/13] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix multiple memory safety bugs and parsing errors
Muhammad Bilal <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Aug 2026 19:30:23 +0500
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.platform-driver-x86,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
This series fixes several bugs in the hp-bioscfg driver:
1. Memory safety issues (patches 1-6):
- Off-by-one NUL terminator write in hp_get_string_from_buffer()
- Heap OOB read in sk_store()/kek_store() when passing original count
instead of trimmed length to hp_wmi_perform_query()
- Heap OOB read on empty password write in validate_password_input()
- 16-byte heap overflow in hp_calculate_security_buffer() for empty
authentication tokens
- Off-by-one heap OOB write in audit_log_entries_show() when more
than 256 log entries are reported
- Missing bounds check in the PSWD_ENCODINGS parsing loop
2. Logic bugs (patches 7-8):
- new_password_store() incorrectly passing is_current=true, causing
writes to land in current_password instead
- ORD_LIST_ELEMENTS case using a stale NULL str_value pointer
instead of converting the current ACPI element directly
3. ACPI package element index tracking (patches 9-13):
- Five attribute-type parsers (enum, int, string, order-list, passwd)
all share the same defect: multi-element array cases
(PREREQUISITES, ENUM_POSSIBLE_VALUES, PSWD_ENCODINGS) consume
"size" consecutive elements but the outer loop only advances by
one, causing the next iteration to misread a leftover array entry
as the next property and abort with -EIO
Tested on HP EliteBook 840 G2 (BIOS M71 Ver. 01.31), kernel 7.2.0-rc5+,
with CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC=y and CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=y.
This series applies on top of:
commit ea4d8f8ba283 ("platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix
slab-out-of-bounds write in hp_convert_hexstr_to_str")
Muhammad Bilal (13):
platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix off-by-one write in
hp_get_string_from_buffer
platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix heap OOB read in sk_store and kek_store
platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix heap OOB read on empty password write
platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix 16-byte heap overflow for empty auth
token
platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix off-by-one heap OOB write in
audit_log_entries_show
platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: add missing bounds check in PSWD_ENCODINGS
loop
platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix new_password_store overwriting
current_password
platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: fix ORD_LIST_ELEMENTS never being parsed
platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: advance elem past consumed array elements in
enum-attributes
platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: advance elem past consumed array elements in
int-attributes
platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: advance elem past consumed array elements in
string-attributes
platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: advance elem past consumed array elements in
order-list-attributes
platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: advance elem past consumed array elements in
passwdobj-attributes
drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/bioscfg.c | 2 +-
.../platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/enum-attributes.c | 4 ++++
drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/int-attributes.c | 2 ++
.../x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/order-list-attributes.c | 6 +++++-
.../x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/passwdobj-attributes.c | 13 +++++++++++--
.../platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/spmobj-attributes.c | 6 +++---
.../platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/string-attributes.c | 2 ++
.../x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/surestart-attributes.c | 2 +-
8 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
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