Validate size of EFI GUID partition entries.
authorTimo Warns <Warns@pre-sense.de>
Fri, 6 May 2011 11:47:35 +0000 (13:47 +0200)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 6 May 2011 14:46:37 +0000 (07:46 -0700)
Otherwise corrupted EFI partition tables can cause total confusion.

Signed-off-by: Timo Warns <warns@pre-sense.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/partitions/efi.c

index ac0ccb5026a2d107eb5e5e38c84e4bdfe51682ed..19d6750d1d6ce3b5571e463ee2fb2d768985d644 100644 (file)
@@ -348,6 +348,12 @@ static int is_gpt_valid(struct parsed_partitions *state, u64 lba,
                goto fail;
        }
 
+       /* Check that sizeof_partition_entry has the correct value */
+       if (le32_to_cpu((*gpt)->sizeof_partition_entry) != sizeof(gpt_entry)) {
+               pr_debug("GUID Partitition Entry Size check failed.\n");
+               goto fail;
+       }
+
        if (!(*ptes = alloc_read_gpt_entries(state, *gpt)))
                goto fail;