efivars: validate we are actually talking about a regular file

We already have the stat data, let's actually check if things are
alright before relying on .st_size
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Lennart Poettering
2025-11-13 12:33:12 +01:00
parent ab69a04600
commit 40cb2aa4f8

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@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#include "io-util.h"
#include "log.h"
#include "memory-util.h"
#include "stat-util.h"
#include "string-util.h"
#include "time-util.h"
#include "utf8.h"
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ int efi_get_variable(
void **ret_value,
size_t *ret_size) {
int r;
usec_t begin = 0; /* Unnecessary initialization to appease gcc */
assert(variable);
@@ -66,6 +68,10 @@ int efi_get_variable(
if (fstat(fd, &st) < 0)
return log_debug_errno(errno, "fstat(\"%s\") failed: %m", p);
r = stat_verify_regular(&st);
if (r < 0)
return log_debug_errno(r, "EFI variable '%s' is not a regular file, refusing: %m", p);
if (st.st_size == 0) /* for uncommited variables, see below */
return log_debug_errno(SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(ENOENT), "EFI variable '%s' is uncommitted", p);
if ((uint64_t) st.st_size < sizeof(attr))