[U-Boot] [U-Boot, for-v2014.10?] pxe: Ensure we don't overflow bootargs

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Fri Oct 10 16:39:42 CEST 2014


On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 02:29:01PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:

> From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell at citrix.com>
> 
> On a couple of platforms I've tripped over long PXE append lines overflowing
> this array, due to having CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE == 256. When doing preseeded Debian
> installs it's pretty trivial to exceed that.
> 
> Since the symptom can be a silent hang or a crash add a check. Of course the
> affected boards would also need an increased CBSIZE to actually work.
> 
> Note that due to the printing of the final bootargs string CONFIG_SYS_PBSIZE
> also needs to be sufficiently large.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell at citrix.com>
> ---
> I think this is v2014.10 material?
> ---
>  common/cmd_pxe.c | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/common/cmd_pxe.c b/common/cmd_pxe.c
> index 0ab1e0a..e63a031 100644
> --- a/common/cmd_pxe.c
> +++ b/common/cmd_pxe.c
> @@ -674,6 +674,15 @@ static int label_boot(cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, struct pxe_label *label)
>  		char bootargs[CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE] = "";
>  		char finalbootargs[CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE];
>  
> +		if (strlen(label->append ?: "") +
> +		    strlen(ip_str) + strlen(mac_str) + 1 > sizeof(bootargs)) {
> +			printf("bootarg overflow %d+%d+%d+1 > %zd\n",

With a change to use %zd in all cases (aarch64 warns otherwise), applied
to u-boot/master, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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