From: Prasanna Kumar T S M <ptsm@linux.microsoft.com>
To: ptsm@linux.microsoft.com, nipun.gupta@amd.com,
nikhil.agarwal@amd.com, alex@shazbot.org,
pieter.jansen-van-vuuren@amd.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] vfio/cdx: Fix NULL pointer dereference in interrupt trigger path
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:19:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260320101933.1554416-1-ptsm@linux.microsoft.com> (raw)
Add validation to ensure MSI is configured before accessing cdx_irqs
array in vfio_cdx_set_msi_trigger(). Without this check, userspace
can trigger a NULL pointer dereference by calling VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS
with VFIO_IRQ_SET_DATA_BOOL or VFIO_IRQ_SET_DATA_NONE flags before
ever setting up interrupts via VFIO_IRQ_SET_DATA_EVENTFD.
The vfio_cdx_msi_enable() function allocates the cdx_irqs array and
sets config_msi to 1 only when called through the EVENTFD path. The
trigger loop (for DATA_BOOL/DATA_NONE) assumed this had already been
done, but there was no enforcement of this call ordering.
This matches the protection used in the PCI VFIO driver where
vfio_pci_set_msi_trigger() checks irq_is() before the trigger loop.
Fixes: 848e447e000c ("vfio/cdx: add interrupt support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Prasanna Kumar T S M <ptsm@linux.microsoft.com>
---
drivers/vfio/cdx/intr.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/cdx/intr.c b/drivers/vfio/cdx/intr.c
index 8f4402cec9c5..c0eed065e8ef 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/cdx/intr.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/cdx/intr.c
@@ -175,6 +175,10 @@ static int vfio_cdx_set_msi_trigger(struct vfio_cdx_device *vdev,
return ret;
}
+ /* Ensure MSI is configured before accessing cdx_irqs */
+ if (!vdev->config_msi)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
for (i = start; i < start + count; i++) {
if (!vdev->cdx_irqs[i].trigger)
continue;
--
2.49.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-20 10:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-20 10:19 Prasanna Kumar T S M [this message]
2026-03-20 10:21 ` [PATCH 2/2] cdx: Fix double free when sysfs file creation fails Prasanna Kumar T S M
2026-04-01 9:42 ` Gupta, Nipun
2026-04-27 7:07 ` Prasanna Kumar T S M
2026-04-28 13:27 ` Gupta, Nipun
2026-04-01 9:41 ` [PATCH 1/2] vfio/cdx: Fix NULL pointer dereference in interrupt trigger path Gupta, Nipun
2026-04-01 18:22 ` Alex Williamson
2026-04-02 4:44 ` Prasanna Kumar T S M
2026-04-02 14:16 ` Alex Williamson
2026-04-06 4:18 ` Prasanna Kumar T S M
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