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.
Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200923133804.2089190-3-berrange@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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