[PATCH v3 04/11] ShellPkg: acpiview: SLIT: Validate global pointer before use

["Krzysztof Koch" <krzysztof.koch@arm.com>]

Check if SlitSystemLocalityCount pointer has been successfully updated
before it is used for further table parsing.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Koch <krzysztof.koch@arm.com>
---

Notes:
    v3:
    - Rebase on latest master [Krzysztof]

    v1:
    - Test against NULL pointers [Krzysztof]

 ShellPkg/Library/UefiShellAcpiViewCommandLib/Parsers/Slit/SlitParser.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ShellPkg/Library/UefiShellAcpiViewCommandLib/Parsers/Slit/SlitParser.c b/ShellPkg/Library/UefiShellAcpiViewCommandLib/Parsers/Slit/SlitParser.c
index ca2808db526b1bbb79aeb21ccfc0ae6c79b2dfd8..17e2166a09d8615b714e0c51d4d93d293fcdf601 100644
--- a/ShellPkg/Library/UefiShellAcpiViewCommandLib/Parsers/Slit/SlitParser.c
+++ b/ShellPkg/Library/UefiShellAcpiViewCommandLib/Parsers/Slit/SlitParser.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /** @file
   SLIT table parser
 
-  Copyright (c) 2016 - 2018, ARM Limited. All rights reserved.
+  Copyright (c) 2016 - 2019, ARM Limited. All rights reserved.
   SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause-Patent
 
   @par Reference(s):
@@ -75,9 +75,21 @@ ParseAcpiSlit (
              AcpiTableLength,
              PARSER_PARAMS (SlitParser)
              );
+
+  // Check if the values used to control the parsing logic have been
+  // successfully read.
+  if (SlitSystemLocalityCount == NULL) {
+    IncrementErrorCount ();
+    Print (
+      L"ERROR: Insufficient table length. AcpiTableLength = %d.\n",
+      AcpiTableLength
+      );
+    return;
+  }
+
   LocalityPtr = Ptr + Offset;
-
   LocalityCount = *SlitSystemLocalityCount;
+
   // We only print the Localities if the count is less than 16
   // If the locality count is more than 16 then refer to the
   // raw data dump.
--
'Guid(CE165669-3EF3-493F-B85D-6190EE5B9759)'