Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] PCI: Check rom header and data structure addr before accessing

["Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2025, Guixin Liu wrote:

> We meet a crash when running stress-ng on x86_64 machine:
> 
>   BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffa0000007f40000
>   RIP: 0010:pci_get_rom_size+0x52/0x220
>   Call Trace:
>   <TASK>
>     pci_map_rom+0x80/0x130
>     pci_read_rom+0x4b/0xe0
>     kernfs_file_read_iter+0x96/0x180
>     vfs_read+0x1b1/0x300
> 
> Our analysis reveals that the rom space's start address is
> 0xffa0000007f30000, and size is 0x10000. Because of broken rom
> space, before calling readl(pds), the pds's value is
> 0xffa0000007f3ffff, which is already pointed to the rom space
> end, invoking readl() would read 4 bytes therefore cause an
> out-of-bounds access and trigger a crash.
> Fix this by adding image header and data structure checking.
> 
> We also found another crash on arm64 machine:
> 
>   Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address
> ffff8000dd1393ff
>   Mem abort info:
>   ESR = 0x0000000096000021
>   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
>   SET = 0, FnV = 0
>   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
>   FSC = 0x21: alignment fault
> 
> The call trace is the same with x86_64, but the crash reason is
> that the data structure addr is not aligned with 4, and arm64
> machine report "alignment fault". Fix this by adding alignment
> checking.
> 
> Fixes: 47b975d234ea ("PCI: Avoid iterating through memory outside the resource window")
> Suggested-by: Guanghui Feng <guanghuifeng@linux.alibaba.com>
> Signed-off-by: Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/pci/rom.c | 116 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 97 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/rom.c b/drivers/pci/rom.c
> index 3cb0e94f0e86..52a89e126271 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/rom.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/rom.c
> @@ -6,9 +6,12 @@
>   * (C) Copyright 2004 Silicon Graphics, Inc. Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com>
>   */
>  
> +#include <linux/align.h>
>  #include <linux/bits.h>
> -#include <linux/kernel.h>
>  #include <linux/export.h>
> +#include <linux/io.h>
> +#include <linux/kernel.h>
> +#include <linux/overflow.h>
>  #include <linux/pci.h>
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
>  
> @@ -81,6 +84,91 @@ void pci_disable_rom(struct pci_dev *pdev)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pci_disable_rom);
>  
> +static bool pci_rom_is_header_valid(struct pci_dev *pdev,
> +				    void __iomem *image,
> +				    void __iomem *rom,
> +				    size_t size,
> +				    bool last_image)
> +{
> +	unsigned long rom_end = (unsigned long)rom + size - 1;
> +	unsigned long header_end;
> +	unsigned short signature;

Please use u16 (to match readw return type).

> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Some CPU architectures require IOMEM access addresses to
> +	 * be aligned, for example arm64, so since we're about to
> +	 * call readw(), we check here for 2-byte alignment.
> +	 */
> +	if (!IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long)image, 2))
> +		return false;
> +
> +	if (check_add_overflow((unsigned long)image, PCI_ROM_HEADER_SIZE,
> +				&header_end))
> +		return false;
> +
> +	if (image < rom || header_end > rom_end)
> +		return false;
> +
> +	/* Standard PCI ROMs start out with these bytes 55 AA */
> +	signature = readw(image);
> +	if (signature == PCI_ROM_IMAGE_SIGNATURE)
> +		return true;
> +
> +	if (last_image) {
> +		pci_info(pdev, "Invalid PCI ROM header signature: expecting %#06x, got %#06x\n",
> +			 PCI_ROM_IMAGE_SIGNATURE, signature);
> +	} else {
> +		pci_info(pdev, "No more image in the PCI ROM\n");
> +	}
> +
> +	return false;
> +}
> +
> +static bool pci_rom_is_data_struct_valid(struct pci_dev *pdev,
> +					 void __iomem *pds,
> +					 void __iomem *rom,
> +					 size_t size)
> +{
> +	unsigned long rom_end = (unsigned long)rom + size - 1;
> +	unsigned int signature;

u32.

> +	unsigned long end;
> +	u16 data_len;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Some CPU architectures require IOMEM access addresses to
> +	 * be aligned, for example arm64, so since we're about to
> +	 * call readl(), we check here for 4-byte alignment.
> +	 */
> +	if (!IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long)pds, 4))
> +		return false;
> +
> +	/* Before reading length, check addr range. */
> +	if (check_add_overflow((unsigned long)pds, PCI_ROM_DATA_STRUCT_LEN + 1,
> +				&end))
> +		return false;
> +
> +	if (pds < rom || end > rom_end)
> +		return false;
> +
> +	data_len = readw(pds + PCI_ROM_DATA_STRUCT_LEN);
> +	if (!data_len || data_len == U16_MAX)
> +		return false;
> +
> +	if (check_add_overflow((unsigned long)pds, data_len, &end))
> +		return false;
> +
> +	if (end > rom_end)
> +		return false;
> +
> +	signature = readl(pds);
> +	if (signature == PCI_ROM_DATA_STRUCT_SIGNATURE)
> +		return true;
> +
> +	pci_info(pdev, "Invalid PCI ROM data signature: expecting %#010x, got %#010x\n",
> +		 PCI_ROM_DATA_STRUCT_SIGNATURE, signature);
> +	return false;
> +}
> +
>  /**
>   * pci_get_rom_size - obtain the actual size of the ROM image
>   * @pdev: target PCI device
> @@ -96,38 +184,28 @@ static size_t pci_get_rom_size(struct pci_dev *pdev, void __iomem *rom,
>  			       size_t size)
>  {
>  	void __iomem *image;
> -	int last_image;
>  	unsigned int length;
> +	bool last_image;
>  
>  	image = rom;
>  	do {
>  		void __iomem *pds;
> -		/* Standard PCI ROMs start out with these bytes 55 AA */
> -		if (readw(image) != PCI_ROM_IMAGE_SIGNATURE) {
> -			pci_info(pdev, "Invalid PCI ROM header signature: expecting %#06x, got %#06x\n",
> -				 PCI_ROM_IMAGE_SIGNATURE, readw(image));
> +
> +		if (!pci_rom_is_header_valid(pdev, image, rom, size, true))
>  			break;
> -		}
> +
>  		/* get the PCI data structure and check its "PCIR" signature */
>  		pds = image + readw(image + PCI_ROM_POINTER_TO_DATA_STRUCT);
> -		if (readl(pds) != PCI_ROM_DATA_STRUCT_SIGNATURE) {
> -			pci_info(pdev, "Invalid PCI ROM data signature: expecting %#010x, got %#010x\n",
> -				 PCI_ROM_DATA_STRUCT_SIGNATURE, readl(pds));
> +		if (!pci_rom_is_data_struct_valid(pdev, pds, rom, size))
>  			break;
> -		}
> +
>  		last_image = readb(pds + PCI_ROM_LAST_IMAGE_INDICATOR) &
>  				   PCI_ROM_LAST_IMAGE_INDICATOR_BIT;
>  		length = readw(pds + PCI_ROM_IMAGE_LEN);
>  		image += length * PCI_ROM_IMAGE_LEN_UNIT_SZ_512;
> -		/* Avoid iterating through memory outside the resource window */
> -		if (image >= rom + size)
> +
> +		if (!pci_rom_is_header_valid(pdev, image, rom, size, last_image))
>  			break;
> -		if (!last_image) {
> -			if (readw(image) != PCI_ROM_IMAGE_SIGNATURE) {
> -				pci_info(pdev, "No more image in the PCI ROM\n");
> -				break;
> -			}
> -		}
>  	} while (length && !last_image);
>  
>  	/* never return a size larger than the PCI resource window */
> 

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