[PATCH 1/1] efi_loader: overflow in efi_allocate_pages

Heinrich Schuchardt heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com
Sun Jul 30 12:11:25 CEST 2023


On 32bit systems (pages << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT) may lead to an overflow which
does not occur in 64bit arithmetics.

An overflow of (pages << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT) on 64bit systems should be treated
as an error.

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com>
---
 lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c b/lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c
index e2ca78d935..e443556817 100644
--- a/lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c
+++ b/lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c
@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ efi_status_t efi_allocate_pages(enum efi_allocate_type type,
 				enum efi_memory_type memory_type,
 				efi_uintn_t pages, uint64_t *memory)
 {
-	u64 len = pages << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT;
+	u64 len;
 	efi_status_t ret;
 	uint64_t addr;
 
@@ -497,6 +497,11 @@ efi_status_t efi_allocate_pages(enum efi_allocate_type type,
 		return EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER;
 	if (!memory)
 		return EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER;
+	len = (u64)pages << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT;
+	/* Catch possible overflow on 64bit systems */
+	if (size(efi_uintn_t) == sizeof(u64) &&
+	    (len >> EFI_PAGE_SHIFT) != (u64)pages)
+		return EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES;
 
 	switch (type) {
 	case EFI_ALLOCATE_ANY_PAGES:
-- 
2.40.1



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