From: Laxman Acharya Padhya <acharyalaxman8848@gmail.com>
To: Sven Peter <sven@kernel.org>, Janne Grunau <j@jannau.net>
Cc: Neal Gompa <neal@gompa.dev>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
asahi@lists.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/4] soc: apple: rtkit: harden syslog shared-buffer handling
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:11:36 +0545 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cover.1787559303.git.acharyalaxman8848@gmail.com> (raw)
Split the syslog hardening into focused changes as requested. The first
patch fixes the SYSLOG_INIT reinitialization leak. The second prevents
zero-sized messages and out-of-bounds shared-memory copies. The third
corrects the entry-count boundary, and the fourth rate limits validation
warnings controlled by the coprocessor.
The index-boundary change has not been tested on Apple hardware running
Linux. Asahi m1n1 describes the initialization field as COUNT, consistent
with the kernel's syslog_n_entries name, but patch 3 is kept independent so
it can be reverted without removing the shared-memory bounds protection.
Testing:
- arm64 GCC build of drivers/soc/apple/rtkit.o with W=1 in Docker
- scripts/checkpatch.pl --strict on each patch
Changes since v1:
- inline the one-use shared-memory bounds check
- use == 0 for the crashlog copy and < 0 for syslog copies
- split the SYSLOG_INIT leak fix into patch 1
- split the idx == n_entries change into patch 3
- make the zero-size guard independent of the leak fix
- rate limit existing malformed-syslog warnings in patch 4
- rebase onto upstream commit 0a0d1d55dad5
Laxman Acharya Padhya (4):
soc: apple: rtkit: free syslog buffer before reinitializing
soc: apple: rtkit: bound syslog copies to the shared buffer
soc: apple: rtkit: reject syslog indices outside the entry count
soc: apple: rtkit: rate limit malformed syslog warnings
drivers/soc/apple/rtkit.c | 75 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
base-commit: 0a0d1d55dad570724bf8c7ea83409639cfb4be9b
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2.51.2
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-24 8:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-24 8:26 Laxman Acharya Padhya [this message]
2026-08-24 8:26 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] soc: apple: rtkit: free syslog buffer before reinitializing Laxman Acharya Padhya
2026-08-24 8:26 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] soc: apple: rtkit: bound syslog copies to the shared buffer Laxman Acharya Padhya
2026-08-24 8:26 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] soc: apple: rtkit: reject syslog indices outside the entry count Laxman Acharya Padhya
2026-08-24 8:26 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] soc: apple: rtkit: rate limit malformed syslog warnings Laxman Acharya Padhya
2026-08-24 8:55 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] soc: apple: rtkit: harden syslog shared-buffer handling Sven Peter
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