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[PATCH 5.10 573/798] firmware: coreboot: Check size of table entry and use flex-array

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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2026-09-12 19:55:16
Also in: linux-patches
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

4 review trailers.

5.10-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Kees Cook <redacted>

[ Upstream commit 3b293487b8752cc42c1cbf8a0447bc6076c075fa ]

The memcpy() of the data following a coreboot_table_entry couldn't
be evaluated by the compiler under CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE. To make it
easier to reason about, add an explicit flexible array member to struct
coreboot_device so the entire entry can be copied at once. Additionally,
validate the sizes before copying. Avoids this run-time false positive
warning:

  memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 168) of single field "&device->entry" at drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.c:103 (size 8)

Reported-by: Paul Menzel <redacted>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/03ae2704-8c30-f9f0-215b-7cdf4ad35a9a@molgen.mpg.de/ (local)
Cc: Jack Rosenthal <redacted>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>
Cc: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Cc: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <redacted>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230107031406.gonna.761-kees@kernel.org (local)
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Jack Rosenthal <redacted>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112230312.give.446-kees@kernel.org (local)
Stable-dep-of: a58a57a1076f ("firmware: coreboot: Validate table bounds")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.c | 9 +++++++--
 drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.h | 1 +
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.c b/drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.c
index 568074148f62b..1f52d8b82ef8d 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.c
@@ -96,7 +96,12 @@ static int coreboot_table_populate(struct device *dev, void *ptr)
 	for (i = 0; i < header->table_entries; i++) {
 		entry = ptr_entry;
 
-		device = kzalloc(sizeof(struct device) + entry->size, GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (entry->size < sizeof(*entry)) {
+			dev_warn(dev, "coreboot table entry too small!\n");
+			return -EINVAL;
+		}
+
+		device = kzalloc(sizeof(device->dev) + entry->size, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!device)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -104,7 +109,7 @@ static int coreboot_table_populate(struct device *dev, void *ptr)
 		device->dev.parent = dev;
 		device->dev.bus = &coreboot_bus_type;
 		device->dev.release = coreboot_device_release;
-		memcpy(&device->entry, ptr_entry, entry->size);
+		memcpy(device->raw, ptr_entry, entry->size);
 
 		ret = device_register(&device->dev);
 		if (ret) {
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.h b/drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.h
index 7b7b4a6eeddae..89fbf18468947 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.h
+++ b/drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.h
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ struct coreboot_device {
 		struct coreboot_table_entry entry;
 		struct lb_cbmem_ref cbmem_ref;
 		struct lb_framebuffer framebuffer;
+		DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(u8, raw);
 	};
 };
 
-- 
2.53.0


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