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* [PATCH 0/3] MdePkg, OvmfPkg: rewrite Base64Decode(), clean up call site
@ 2019-07-02 10:28 Laszlo Ersek
  2019-07-02 10:28 ` [PATCH 1/3] MdePkg/BaseLib: re-specify Base64Decode(), and add temporary stub impl Laszlo Ersek
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  0 siblings, 5 replies; 26+ messages in thread
From: Laszlo Ersek @ 2019-07-02 10:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: edk2-devel-groups-io
  Cc: Ard Biesheuvel, Jordan Justen, Liming Gao, Marvin Häuser,
	Michael D Kinney, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé, Zhichao Gao

Repo:   https://github.com/lersek/edk2.git
Branch: base64_decode_bz1891

Base64Decode() has a number of issues; see

- <https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1891>

- and the mailing list discussion linked from
  <https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1891#c6>.

In my opinion, rewriting Base64Decode() from scratch, using a different
(state machine-based) approach is safer / more robust than attempting to
identify and patch up individual problems in the current implementation.
The emphasis of the proposed implementation is to reject invalid input;
decoding valid input is kind of secondary. (This is the safe approach
for all parsers that process untrusted input, in my opinion.)

My understanding is that unit tests for Base64Decode() already exist in
some repository. While I tested the new implementation through OvmfPkg's
EnrollDefaultKeys application -- which makes the sole calls to
Base64Decode() in the open source edk2 tree -- I didn't run a unit test
suite. Help with that (pointers to the test suite, or actual unit
testing) would be highly appreciated.

Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
Cc: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
Cc: Marvin Häuser <mhaeuser@outlook.de>
Cc: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
Cc: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhichao Gao <zhichao.gao@intel.com>

Thanks
Laszlo

Laszlo Ersek (3):
  MdePkg/BaseLib: re-specify Base64Decode(), and add temporary stub impl
  MdePkg/BaseLib: rewrite Base64Decode()
  OvmfPkg/EnrollDefaultKeys: clean up Base64Decode() retval handling

 MdePkg/Include/Library/BaseLib.h              |  99 ++++-
 MdePkg/Library/BaseLib/String.c               | 448 +++++++++++++-------
 OvmfPkg/EnrollDefaultKeys/EnrollDefaultKeys.c |  10 +-
 3 files changed, 374 insertions(+), 183 deletions(-)

-- 
2.19.1.3.g30247aa5d201


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2019-07-02 10:28 ` [PATCH 1/3] MdePkg/BaseLib: re-specify Base64Decode(), and add temporary stub impl Laszlo Ersek
2019-07-16  8:38   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-07-16  9:41     ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-07-16 14:14       ` Laszlo Ersek
2019-07-16 14:59         ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-07-16 18:53           ` [edk2-devel] " Laszlo Ersek
2019-07-16 10:49   ` Laszlo Ersek
2019-07-16 14:56     ` Liming Gao
2019-07-16 17:15       ` Laszlo Ersek
2019-07-02 10:28 ` [PATCH 2/3] MdePkg/BaseLib: rewrite Base64Decode() Laszlo Ersek
2019-07-12  2:31   ` [edk2-devel] " Gao, Zhichao
2019-07-12 19:31     ` Laszlo Ersek
2019-07-15 15:22       ` Liming Gao
2019-07-15 21:56         ` Laszlo Ersek
2019-07-16  1:18           ` Gao, Zhichao
2019-07-16 10:48             ` Laszlo Ersek
2019-07-15 18:44   ` mhaeuser
2019-07-16  0:45     ` Laszlo Ersek
2019-07-16 10:05   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-07-16 14:17     ` Laszlo Ersek
2019-07-02 10:28 ` [PATCH 3/3] OvmfPkg/EnrollDefaultKeys: clean up Base64Decode() retval handling Laszlo Ersek
2019-07-15 21:58   ` [edk2-devel] " Laszlo Ersek
2019-07-16  8:36     ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-07-10  9:20 ` [edk2-devel] [PATCH 0/3] MdePkg, OvmfPkg: rewrite Base64Decode(), clean up call site Laszlo Ersek
2019-07-16 22:02 ` Laszlo Ersek

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