Re: [PATCH for-4.15] x86/ucode/amd: Fix OoB read in cpu_request_microcode()

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>]

On 10/02/2021 11:00, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 10.02.2021 00:40, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> verify_patch_size() is a maximum size check, and doesn't have a minimum bound.
>>
>> If the microcode container encodes a blob with a length less than 64 bytes,
>> the subsequent calls to microcode_fits()/compare_header() may read off the end
>> of the buffer.
>>
>> Fixes: 4de936a38a ("x86/ucode/amd: Rework parsing logic in cpu_request_microcode()")
>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

Thanks.

>
>> --- a/xen/arch/x86/cpu/microcode/amd.c
>> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/cpu/microcode/amd.c
>> @@ -349,6 +349,7 @@ static struct microcode_patch *cpu_request_microcode(const void *buf, size_t siz
>>              if ( size < sizeof(*mc) ||
>>                   (mc = buf)->type != UCODE_UCODE_TYPE ||
>>                   size - sizeof(*mc) < mc->len ||
>> +                 mc->len < sizeof(struct microcode_patch) ||
> I was inclined to suggest to use <= here, but I guess a blob
> with 1 byte of data is as bogus as one with 0 bytes of data.

Yeah - its unfortunate.  On the Intel side, we've got a fairly rigorous
set of sanity checks we can perform on the blob, and on the AMD side we
appear to have nothing.

This at least prevents our minimal header checks from causing OoB accesses.

~Andrew