Commit d0bf42d8 authored Nov 01, 2017 by Mario Limonciello Committed by Darren Hart (VMware) Nov 03, 2017

platform/x86: dell-wmi: increase severity of some failures



There is a lot of error checking in place for the format of the WMI
descriptor buffer, but some of the potentially raised issues should
be considered critical failures.

If the buffer size or header don't match, this is a good indication
that the buffer format changed in a way that the rest of the data
should not be relied upon.

For the remaining data set vectors, continue to notate a warning
in undefined results, but as those are fields that the descriptor
intended to refer to other applications, don't fail if they're new
values.

Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>
Reviewed-by: Edward O'Callaghan <quasisec@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>

parent 722c856d

drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c

+7 −6

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		@@ -657,17 +657,18 @@ static int dell_wmi_check_descriptor_buffer(struct wmi_device *wdev)
		dev_err(&wdev->dev,
		"Dell descriptor buffer has invalid length (%d)\n",
		obj->buffer.length);
		if (obj->buffer.length < 16) {
		ret = -EINVAL;
		goto out;
		}
		}

		buffer = (u32 *)obj->buffer.pointer;

		if (buffer[0] != 0x4C4C4544 && buffer[1] != 0x494D5720)
		dev_warn(&wdev->dev, "Dell descriptor buffer has invalid signature (%*ph)\n",
		if (buffer[0] != 0x4C4C4544 && buffer[1] != 0x494D5720) {
		dev_err(&wdev->dev, "Dell descriptor buffer has invalid signature (%*ph)\n",
		8, buffer);
		ret = -EINVAL;
		goto out;
		}

		if (buffer[2] != 0 && buffer[2] != 1)
		dev_warn(&wdev->dev, "Dell descriptor buffer has unknown version (%d)\n",