From: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
To: Richard Cheng <icheng@nvidia.com>
Cc: <dave@stgolabs.net>, <jic23@kernel.org>, <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
<vishal.l.verma@intel.com>, <djbw@kernel.org>,
<danwilliams@nvidia.com>, <iweiny@kernel.org>,
<ming.li@zohomail.com>, <kobak@nvidia.com>, <kaihengf@nvidia.com>,
<kees@kernel.org>, <newtonl@nvidia.com>, <kristinc@nvidia.com>,
<mochs@nvidia.com>, <linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] cxl/features: Reject Get Feature count larger than the output buffer
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:29:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alaOHQExFazwswlp@aschofie-mobl2.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260626104102.53892-2-icheng@nvidia.com>
On Fri, Jun 26, 2026 at 06:41:00PM +0800, Richard Cheng wrote:
> cxlctl_get_feature() sizes its output buffer from the user's
> fwctl_rpc.out_len, but the device is told to write
> cxl_mbox_get_feat_in.count bytes into rpc_out->payload, which is a
> separate user-controlled value. Nothing bounds count against out_len, so
> a small out_len with a large count overflows the kvzalloc()'d buffer.
> A heap OOB write reachable from FWCTL_RPC.
>
> Reject requests where count exceeds the available payload room, before
> allocating.
Reviewed-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-14 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-26 10:40 [PATCH v3 0/3] cxl/features: Bounds-check the fwctl feature commands Richard Cheng
2026-06-26 10:41 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] cxl/features: Reject Get Feature count larger than the output buffer Richard Cheng
2026-06-26 10:54 ` sashiko-bot
2026-06-30 2:50 ` Richard Cheng
2026-07-14 19:29 ` Alison Schofield [this message]
2026-06-26 10:41 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] cxl/features: Reject Set Features output buffer smaller than the header Richard Cheng
2026-06-26 10:56 ` sashiko-bot
2026-06-30 2:51 ` Richard Cheng
2026-07-14 18:05 ` Dave Jiang
2026-07-14 19:30 ` Alison Schofield
2026-06-26 10:41 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] cxl/features: Clamp Get Feature output size to the remaining buffer Richard Cheng
2026-06-26 10:52 ` sashiko-bot
2026-06-30 2:57 ` Richard Cheng
2026-07-14 18:06 ` Dave Jiang
2026-07-14 19:31 ` Alison Schofield
2026-07-13 7:22 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] cxl/features: Bounds-check the fwctl feature commands Richard Cheng
2026-07-14 21:01 ` Dave Jiang
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