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From: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH master 3/4] partitions: dos: bound extended partition chain
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:59:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260824120022.3299742-3-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260824120022.3299742-1-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>

dos_extended_partition() follows the EBR chain by reading each logical
partition's link entry (the second entry in the EBR) to locate the next
EBR. The loop is an unbounded while (1) and thus could keep running
until barebox runs out of memory.

Bound it at MAX_PARTITION to fix this.

Fixes: 57392a862d40 ("partition: allocate struct partition in parser")
Assisted-by: Claude:fable-5
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
---
 common/partitions/dos.c | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/common/partitions/dos.c b/common/partitions/dos.c
index e5286cb6eb1f..3d9e6e67c676 100644
--- a/common/partitions/dos.c
+++ b/common/partitions/dos.c
@@ -129,11 +129,11 @@ static void dos_extended_partition(struct block_device *blk, struct dos_partitio
 	uint8_t *buf = xmalloc(BLOCKSIZE(blk));
 	uint32_t ebr_sector = partition->first_sec;
 	struct partition_entry *table = (struct partition_entry *)&buf[0x1be];
-	unsigned partno = 4;
+	unsigned partno;
 	struct dos_partition *dpart;
 	struct partition *pentry;
 
-	while (1) {
+	for (partno = 4; partno < MAX_PARTITION; partno++) {
 		int rc, i;
 
 		dev_dbg(blk->dev, "expect EBR in sector 0x%x\n", ebr_sector);
@@ -176,8 +176,6 @@ static void dos_extended_partition(struct block_device *blk, struct dos_partitio
 
 		list_add_tail(&pentry->list, &dpd->pd.partitions);
 
-		partno++;
-
 		/* the second entry defines the start of the next ebr if != 0 */
 		if (get_unaligned_le32(&table[1].partition_start))
 			ebr_sector = partition->first_sec +
@@ -186,6 +184,12 @@ static void dos_extended_partition(struct block_device *blk, struct dos_partitio
 			break;
 	}
 
+	/* bound the EBR chain: a cyclic link would loop forever */
+	if (partno == MAX_PARTITION) {
+		dev_err(blk->dev, "too many logical partitions\n");
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 out:
 	free(buf);
 	return;
-- 
2.47.3




  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-24 12:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-24 11:59 [PATCH master 1/4] of: only replace a device tree that is actually tentative Ahmad Fatoum
2026-08-24 11:59 ` [PATCH master 2/4] tlsf: unpoison whole block in malloc_usable_size() Ahmad Fatoum
2026-08-24 11:59 ` Ahmad Fatoum [this message]
2026-08-24 11:59 ` [PATCH master 4/4] of: fdt: bound node nesting depth in __of_unflatten_dtb Ahmad Fatoum
2026-08-24 12:58 ` [PATCH master 1/4] of: only replace a device tree that is actually tentative Sascha Hauer

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