[PATCH 2/5] hw/smbios: report error if table size is too large

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

The SMBIOS 2.1 entry point uses a uint16 data type for reporting the
total length of the tables. If the user passes -smbios configuration to
QEMU that causes the table size to exceed this limit then various bad
behaviours result, including

 - firmware hangs in an infinite loop
 - firmware triggers a KVM crash on bad memory access
 - firmware silently discards user's SMBIOS data replacing it with
   a generic data set.

Limiting the size to 0xffff in QEMU avoids triggering most of these
problems. There is a remaining bug in SeaBIOS which tries to prepend its
own data for table 0, and does not check whether there is sufficient
space before attempting this.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
---
 hw/smbios/smbios.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/hw/smbios/smbios.c b/hw/smbios/smbios.c
index 8450fad285..3c87be6c91 100644
--- a/hw/smbios/smbios.c
+++ b/hw/smbios/smbios.c
@@ -365,6 +365,13 @@ static void smbios_register_config(void)
 
 opts_init(smbios_register_config);
 
+/*
+ * The SMBIOS 2.1 "structure table length" field in the
+ * entry point uses a 16-bit integer, so we're limited
+ * in total table size
+ */
+#define SMBIOS_21_MAX_TABLES_LEN 0xffff
+
 static void smbios_validate_table(MachineState *ms)
 {
     uint32_t expect_t4_count = smbios_legacy ?
@@ -375,6 +382,13 @@ static void smbios_validate_table(MachineState *ms)
                      expect_t4_count, smbios_type4_count);
         exit(1);
     }
+
+    if (smbios_ep_type == SMBIOS_ENTRY_POINT_21 &&
+        smbios_tables_len > SMBIOS_21_MAX_TABLES_LEN) {
+        error_report("SMBIOS 2.1 table length %zu exceeds %d",
+                     smbios_tables_len, SMBIOS_21_MAX_TABLES_LEN);
+        exit(1);
+    }
 }
 
 
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