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authorPatrick Rudolph <patrick.rudolph@9elements.com>2020-05-06 11:58:45 +0200
committerPatrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>2020-08-21 07:51:07 +0000
commit9f8f11513a5db45b224f764525eae9c64fcfe360 (patch)
treebe1b5a603cc8d19e96ef0bf31037e9975c6a6c8b /src/southbridge/intel/lynxpoint
parent37ac368c780568628e45c6fa93aaa55a2030c06b (diff)
SMM: Validate more user-provided pointers
Mitigate issues presented in "Digging Into The Core of Boot" found by "Yuriy Bulygin" and "Oleksandr Bazhaniuk" at RECON-MTL-2017. Validate user-provided pointers using the newly-added functions. This protects SMM from ring0 attacks. Change-Id: I8a347ccdd20816924bf1bceb3b24bf7b22309312 Signed-off-by: Patrick Rudolph <patrick.rudolph@9elements.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Walter <christian.walter@9elements.com> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/41086 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Tim Wawrzynczak <twawrzynczak@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/southbridge/intel/lynxpoint')
-rw-r--r--src/southbridge/intel/lynxpoint/smihandler.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/southbridge/intel/lynxpoint/smihandler.c b/src/southbridge/intel/lynxpoint/smihandler.c
index bb05f99439..5ccb229805 100644
--- a/src/southbridge/intel/lynxpoint/smihandler.c
+++ b/src/southbridge/intel/lynxpoint/smihandler.c
@@ -314,6 +314,10 @@ static void southbridge_smi_apmc(void)
if (state) {
/* EBX in the state save contains the GNVS pointer */
gnvs = (struct global_nvs *)((u32)state->rbx);
+ if (smm_points_to_smram(gnvs, sizeof(*gnvs))) {
+ printk(BIOS_ERR, "SMI#: ERROR: GNVS overlaps SMM\n");
+ return;
+ }
smm_initialized = 1;
printk(BIOS_DEBUG, "SMI#: Setting GNVS to %p\n", gnvs);
}