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shim: don't set second_stage to the empty string
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When LoadOptions is either L" " or L"shim.efi ", parse_load_options sets
second_stage to the empty string. This is unlikely to be what is intended, and
typically leads to a non-obvious failure mode.

The failure happens because parse_load_options's call to split_load_options
(after eating shim's own filename, if present) returns the empty string. Since
init_grub typically passes second_stage to start_image, this causes read_image
to concatenate the empty string onto the directory name. This means PathName
refers to the directory, not the path to a pe image. Then load_image
successfully opens a handle on the directory and reads "data" from it. It only
eventually fails when handle_image calls read_header which finds that this data
isn't in fact a pe header, reporting "Invalid image".

This scenario has been seen when shim is loaded via rEFInd 0.11.5, which sets
LoadOptions to the name of the shim program followed by a space character.

Instead, modify parse_load_options to leave second_stage set to its default
value rather than the empty string.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Davies <jonathan.davies@nutanix.com>
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jjd27 authored and vathpela committed May 8, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -447,10 +447,12 @@ parse_load_options(EFI_LOADED_IMAGE *li)

/*
* Set up the name of the alternative loader and the LoadOptions for
* the loader
* the loader if it's not the empty string.
*/
if (loader_str) {
second_stage = loader_str;
if (*loader_str) {
second_stage = loader_str;
}
load_options = remaining;
load_options_size = remaining_size;
}
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