A type mismatch in the efi_allocate_pool boot service flow causes
hazardous memory scribbling on 32-bit systems.
This is efi_allocate_pool's prototype:
static efi_status_t EFIAPI efi_allocate_pool(int pool_type,
unsigned long size,
void **buffer);
Internally, it invokes efi_allocate_pages as follows:
efi_allocate_pages(0, pool_type, (size + 0xfff) >> 12,
(void*)buffer);
This is efi_allocate_pages' prototype:
efi_status_t efi_allocate_pages(int type, int memory_type,
unsigned long pages,
uint64_t *memory);
The problem: efi_allocate_pages does this internally:
*memory = addr;
This fix in efi_allocate_pool uses a transitional uintptr_t cast to
ensure the correct outcome, irrespective of the system's native word
size.
This was observed when bootefi'ing the EFI instance of FreeBSD's first
stage bootstrap (boot1.efi) on a 32-bit ARM platform (Qemu VExpress +
Cortex-a9).
Signed-off-by: Robin Randhawa <robin.randhawa@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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