Commit 50b8a742 authored by Masami Hiramatsu's avatar Masami Hiramatsu Committed by Steven Rostedt (VMware)

bootconfig: Extend the magic check range to the preceding 3 bytes

Since Grub may align the size of initrd to 4 if user pass
initrd from cpio, we have to check the preceding 3 bytes as well.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160520205132.303174.4876760192433315429.stgit@devnote2

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 85c46b78 ("bootconfig: Add bootconfig magic word for indicating bootconfig explicitly")
Reported-by: default avatarChen Yu <yu.chen.surf@gmail.com>
Tested-by: default avatarChen Yu <yu.chen.surf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
parent 645f224e
......@@ -269,14 +269,24 @@ static void * __init get_boot_config_from_initrd(u32 *_size, u32 *_csum)
u32 size, csum;
char *data;
u32 *hdr;
int i;
if (!initrd_end)
return NULL;
data = (char *)initrd_end - BOOTCONFIG_MAGIC_LEN;
if (memcmp(data, BOOTCONFIG_MAGIC, BOOTCONFIG_MAGIC_LEN))
return NULL;
/*
* Since Grub may align the size of initrd to 4, we must
* check the preceding 3 bytes as well.
*/
for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
if (!memcmp(data, BOOTCONFIG_MAGIC, BOOTCONFIG_MAGIC_LEN))
goto found;
data--;
}
return NULL;
found:
hdr = (u32 *)(data - 8);
size = hdr[0];
csum = hdr[1];
......
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