Ard,

Thanks for the fix.

Regards,
Jian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ard Biesheuvel [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2017 11:57 PM
> To: Wang, Jian J <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]; Kinney, Michael D <[email protected]>;
> Yao, Jiewen <[email protected]>; Zeng, Star <[email protected]>; Gao,
> Liming <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [edk2] [PATCH v2 1/2] MdePkg/BasePrintLib: Fix error in Precision
> position calculation
> 
> On 28 December 2017 at 02:38, Jian J Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> v2:
> >>    a. Correct incorrect description in commit log
> >>    b. Fix another similar issue in the same function
> >
> > Due to a potential hole in the stop condition of loop, the two continuous
> > access to ArgumentString (index, index+1) inside the loop might cause the
> > string ending character ('\0') and the byte after it to be read.
> >
> > Cc: Michael D Kinney <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Liming Gao <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Jiewen Yao <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Star Zeng <[email protected]>
> > Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
> > Signed-off-by: Jian J Wang <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  MdePkg/Library/BasePrintLib/PrintLibInternal.c | 7 +++++--
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/MdePkg/Library/BasePrintLib/PrintLibInternal.c
> b/MdePkg/Library/BasePrintLib/PrintLibInternal.c
> > index 28d946472f..fc57255068 100644
> > --- a/MdePkg/Library/BasePrintLib/PrintLibInternal.c
> > +++ b/MdePkg/Library/BasePrintLib/PrintLibInternal.c
> > @@ -1107,7 +1107,10 @@ BasePrintLibSPrintMarker (
> >        // Compute the number of characters in ArgumentString and store it in
> Count
> >        // ArgumentString is either null-terminated, or it contains Precision
> characters
> >        //
> > -      for (Count = 0; Count < Precision || ((Flags & PRECISION) == 0); 
> > Count++) {
> > +      for (Count = 0;
> > +            ArgumentString[Count * BytesPerArgumentCharacter] != '\0' &&
> > +            (Count < Precision || ((Flags & PRECISION) == 0));
> > +              Count++) {
> >          ArgumentCharacter = ((ArgumentString[Count *
> BytesPerArgumentCharacter] & 0xff) | ((ArgumentString[Count *
> BytesPerArgumentCharacter + 1]) << 8)) & ArgumentMask;
> >          if (ArgumentCharacter == 0) {
> >            break;
> > @@ -1164,7 +1167,7 @@ BasePrintLibSPrintMarker (
> >      //
> >      // Copy the string into the output buffer performing the required type
> conversions
> >      //
> > -    while (Index < Count) {
> > +    while (Index < Count && (*ArgumentString) != '\0') {
> >        ArgumentCharacter = ((*ArgumentString & 0xff) |
> (((UINT8)*(ArgumentString + 1)) << 8)) & ArgumentMask;
> >
> >        LengthToReturn += (1 * BytesPerOutputCharacter);
> 
> This patch breaks UEFI menu rendering: the following
> 
> /------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
> |                               Device Manager                                
>  |
> \------------------------------------------------------------------------------/
> 
> 
> is rendered as
> 
> /\
> |                               Device Manager                                
>  |
> \/.0                                                 2.00 GHz
> 
> (the spurious digits are SMBIOS data from the home screen)
> 
> The problem appears to be that the CHAR16 value of BOXDRAW_HORIZONTAL
> equals 0x2500, which means that testing ArgumentString[] != '\0'
> (which tests the low byte only) will yield FALSE and terminate the
> loop prematurely.
> 
> The following patch fixes things for me.
> 
> diff --git a/MdePkg/Library/BasePrintLib/PrintLibInternal.c
> b/MdePkg/Library/BasePrintLib/PrintLibInternal.c
> index fc5725506848..3f4be932f369 100644
> --- a/MdePkg/Library/BasePrintLib/PrintLibInternal.c
> +++ b/MdePkg/Library/BasePrintLib/PrintLibInternal.c
> @@ -1108,7 +1108,9 @@ BasePrintLibSPrintMarker (
>        // ArgumentString is either null-terminated, or it contains
> Precision characters
>        //
>        for (Count = 0;
> -            ArgumentString[Count * BytesPerArgumentCharacter] != '\0' &&
> +            (ArgumentString[Count * BytesPerArgumentCharacter] != '\0' ||
> +             (BytesPerArgumentCharacter > 1 &&
> +              ArgumentString[Count * BytesPerArgumentCharacter + 1]
> != '\0')) &&
>              (Count < Precision || ((Flags & PRECISION) == 0));
>                Count++) {
>          ArgumentCharacter = ((ArgumentString[Count *
> BytesPerArgumentCharacter] & 0xff) | ((ArgumentString[Count *
> BytesPerArgumentCharacter + 1]) << 8)) & ArgumentMask;
> @@ -1167,7 +1169,9 @@ BasePrintLibSPrintMarker (
>      //
>      // Copy the string into the output buffer performing the required
> type conversions
>      //
> -    while (Index < Count && (*ArgumentString) != '\0') {
> +    while (Index < Count &&
> +           (ArgumentString[0] != '\0' ||
> +            (BytesPerArgumentCharacter > 1 && ArgumentString[1] != '\0'))) {
>        ArgumentCharacter = ((*ArgumentString & 0xff) |
> (((UINT8)*(ArgumentString + 1)) << 8)) & ArgumentMask;
> 
>        LengthToReturn += (1 * BytesPerOutputCharacter);
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