efi/capsule: Move 'capsule' to the stack in efi_capsule_supported()
authorMatt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Fri, 6 May 2016 21:39:29 +0000 (22:39 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Sat, 7 May 2016 05:06:13 +0000 (07:06 +0200)
commitfb7a84cac03541f4da18dfa25b3f4767d4efc6fc
treeb239ff6d7ddc4c683471909309796616f38d2133
parent2e121d711a51f91e792595a05cf9ef6963cb8464
efi/capsule: Move 'capsule' to the stack in efi_capsule_supported()

Dan Carpenter reports that passing the address of the pointer to the
kmalloc()'d memory for 'capsule' is dangerous:

 "drivers/firmware/efi/capsule.c:109 efi_capsule_supported()
  warn: did you mean to pass the address of 'capsule'

   108
   109          status = efi.query_capsule_caps(&capsule, 1, &max_size, reset);
                                                ^^^^^^^^
  If we modify capsule inside this function call then at the end of the
  function we aren't freeing the original pointer that we allocated."

Ard Biesheuvel noted that we don't even need to call kmalloc() since the
object we allocate isn't very big and doesn't need to persist after the
function returns.

Place 'capsule' on the stack instead.

Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@nexus-software.ie>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kweh Hock Leong <hock.leong.kweh@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: joeyli <jlee@suse.com>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462570771-13324-4-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
drivers/firmware/efi/capsule.c