[tip:x86/microcode] x86/microcode/intel: Fix out of bounds memory access to the extended header
From: tip-bot for Quentin Casasnovas
Date: Tue Mar 03 2015 - 08:01:03 EST
Commit-ID: d496a002ae1f02425168e5211c237abee588651a
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/d496a002ae1f02425168e5211c237abee588651a
Author: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 18:03:59 +0100
Committer: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 20:30:42 +0100
x86/microcode/intel: Fix out of bounds memory access to the extended header
Improper pointer arithmetics when calculating the address of the
extended header could lead to an out of bounds memory read and kernel
panic.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150225094125.GB30434@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c
index 420eb93..3a6c613 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c
@@ -180,8 +180,7 @@ matching_model_microcode(struct microcode_header_intel *mc_header,
if (total_size <= data_size + MC_HEADER_SIZE)
return UCODE_NFOUND;
- ext_header = (struct extended_sigtable *)
- mc_header + data_size + MC_HEADER_SIZE;
+ ext_header = (void *) mc_header + data_size + MC_HEADER_SIZE;
ext_sigcount = ext_header->count;
ext_sig = (void *)ext_header + EXT_HEADER_SIZE;
@@ -457,8 +456,7 @@ static void __ref show_saved_mc(void)
if (total_size <= data_size + MC_HEADER_SIZE)
continue;
- ext_header = (struct extended_sigtable *)
- mc_saved_header + data_size + MC_HEADER_SIZE;
+ ext_header = (void *) mc_saved_header + data_size + MC_HEADER_SIZE;
ext_sigcount = ext_header->count;
ext_sig = (void *)ext_header + EXT_HEADER_SIZE;
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