xen/efi: Fix crash with initial empty EFI options

EFI code path split options from EFI LoadOptions fields in 2
pieces, first EFI options, second Xen options.
"get_argv" function is called first to get the number of arguments
in the LoadOptions, second, after allocating enough space, to
fill some "argc"/"argv" variable. However the first parsing could
be different from second as second is able to detect "--" argument
separator. So it was possible that "argc" was bigger than the
initialized portion of "argv" array, leading to potential
uninitialized pointer dereference, in particular a string like
"-- a b c" would lead to crashes.
Using EFI shell is possible to pass any kind of string in
LoadOptions.

Fixes: bf6501a62e ("x86-64: EFI boot code")
Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <frediano.ziglio@cloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
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Frediano Ziglio authored and Jan Beulich committed 2025-09-01 13:07:01 +02:00
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commit 375f0dd538
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@@ -350,10 +350,11 @@ static unsigned int __init get_argv(unsigned int argc, CHAR16 **argv,
if ( argc )
{
argc = 0;
cmdline = data + *offset;
/* EFI_LOAD_OPTION does not supply an image name as first component. */
if ( *offset )
*argv++ = NULL;
argv[argc++] = NULL;
}
else if ( size > sizeof(*cmdline) && !(size % sizeof(*cmdline)) &&
(wmemchr(data, 0, size / sizeof(*cmdline)) ==
@@ -414,14 +415,14 @@ static unsigned int __init get_argv(unsigned int argc, CHAR16 **argv,
++argc;
else if ( prev && wstrcmp(prev, L"--") == 0 )
{
--argv;
--argc;
if ( options )
*options = cmdline;
break;
}
else
{
*argv++ = prev = ptr;
argv[argc++] = prev = ptr;
*ptr = *cmdline;
*++ptr = 0;
}
@@ -429,7 +430,7 @@ static unsigned int __init get_argv(unsigned int argc, CHAR16 **argv,
prev_sep = cur_sep;
}
if ( argv )
*argv = NULL;
argv[argc] = NULL;
return argc;
}
@@ -1355,8 +1356,8 @@ void EFIAPI __init noreturn efi_start(EFI_HANDLE ImageHandle,
(argc + 1) * sizeof(*argv) +
loaded_image->LoadOptionsSize,
(void **)&argv) == EFI_SUCCESS )
get_argv(argc, argv, loaded_image->LoadOptions,
loaded_image->LoadOptionsSize, &offset, &options);
argc = get_argv(argc, argv, loaded_image->LoadOptions,
loaded_image->LoadOptionsSize, &offset, &options);
else
argc = 0;
for ( i = 1; i < argc; ++i )
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