From: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
To: "Badal Nilawar" <badal.nilawar@intel.com>
Cc: intel-xe@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/11] drm/xe/cper: Log CPER records for aggregate counter retrival
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:55:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260825175520.393DA1F000E9@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260825175916.1103841-19-badal.nilawar@intel.com>
Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 5 potential issue(s) to consider:
New issues:
- [Medium] Unconditional CPER record emission on counter retrieval causes log spam and zero-error records.
- [Medium] Spurious CPER records with empty metadata are emitted for info queue headers with zero logs.
Pre-existing issues:
- [Critical] An integer overflow in the bounds check `chunk_offset + chunk_size` allows firmware to perform an out-of-bounds write relative to the `raw_buf` heap allocation.
- [High] Missing bounds check on `chunk_size` against `XE_RAS_INFO_QUEUE_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE` allows a stack buffer over-read, leaking sensitive kernel stack data.
- [High] The do-while loop fetching info queue chunks can be forced into an infinite loop by malicious firmware, causing a kernel lockup.
--
commit 07283a153280cbc84316c197325268cbc06ecfe6
Author: Badal Nilawar <badal.nilawar@intel.com>
drm/xe/cper: Log CPER records for aggregate counter retrival
Log CPER records for aggregate counter retrieval from userspace.
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_ras.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_ras.c
> index 27c78800b5d27..ff9d917b8e29c 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_ras.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_ras.c
[ ... ]
> @@ -749,6 +777,66 @@ prepare_cper_error_info(struct xe_device *xe,
> return einfo_arr;
> }
>
> +static void emit_hw_error_cper(struct xe_device *xe,
> + struct xe_ras_error_class *error_class,
> + struct xe_ras_get_counter_response *resp,
> + u32 sig_id, u8 severity)
> +{
[ ... ]
> + if (einfo_count > 0) {
> + for (i = 0; i < einfo_count; i++) {
> + struct xe_cper_sec_intel_err_hdr entry_ihdr = {};
> +
> + xe_cper_init_intel_err_hdr(xe,
> + (const u8 *)&einfo_arr[i].hdr.error_class,
[Severity: Medium]
When prepare_cper_error_info() processes an info queue header with 0 logs, it
skips initializing einfo_arr[i] but still includes it in the *count_out total.
Does this loop unconditionally access and emit CPER records for potentially
uninitialized (zeroed) elements of the einfo_arr array?
[ ... ]
> + } else {
> + xe_cper_init_intel_err_hdr(xe,
> + (const u8 *)error_class,
> + counter_response->timestamp,
> + sig_id,
> + counter_response->value,
> + &ihdr);
> + xe_cper_record_emit(xe, severity, &INTEL_CPER_NOTIFY_GPU_ERROR,
> + &ihdr, NULL, 0);
> + }
[Severity: Medium]
If counter_response->value is 0 and there is no info queue, will this fallback
path explicitly emit a CPER record reporting 0 errors?
[ ... ]
> @@ -886,6 +974,10 @@ int xe_ras_get_counter(struct xe_device *xe, u8 severity, u8 component, u32 *val
> return ret;
>
> *value = response.value;
> +
> + emit_hw_error_cper(xe, &counter, &response,
> + ras_comp_to_hw_sigid(counter.common.component),
> + ras_sev_to_cper_sev(counter.common.severity));
> return 0;
> }
[Severity: Medium]
Does this unconditional call trigger a CPER emission on every userspace read,
regardless of the counter's value or whether it has changed? This might lead
to log spam and incorrect zero-error telemetry when the counter is 0.
While reviewing this patch, I also noticed some pre-existing issues in the
nearby prepare_cper_error_info() function:
> if (first_qhdr->chunk_size &&
> first_qhdr->chunk_offset + first_qhdr->chunk_size <=
> XE_RAS_INFO_QUEUE_MAX_TOTAL_SIZE) {
[Severity: Critical]
This is a pre-existing issue, but is this boundary validation vulnerable to an
integer overflow? If the firmware provides a large chunk_offset (e.g.
0xFFFFFFF0) and a small chunk_size (e.g. 0x20), the sum could wrap around and
bypass the check, potentially allowing an out-of-bounds write relative to the
raw_buf heap allocation.
> memcpy(raw_buf + first_qhdr->chunk_offset,
> counter_resp->info_queue.queue_data,
> first_qhdr->chunk_size);
[Severity: High]
This is a pre-existing issue, but does this memcpy lack a bounds check on
chunk_size against the stack-allocated queue_data array bounds
(XE_RAS_INFO_QUEUE_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE)? If firmware provides a large chunk_size
that passes the total boundary check, could this read past the end of the array
and leak sensitive kernel stack memory into the heap buffer?
[ ... ]
> do {
> struct xe_ras_info_queue_header *qhdr;
> u32 end;
[ ... ]
> qhdr = &iq_response.queue_response.queue_header;
> end = qhdr->chunk_offset + qhdr->chunk_size;
>
> if (end > XE_RAS_INFO_QUEUE_MAX_TOTAL_SIZE) {
[Severity: Critical]
This is a pre-existing issue, but similar to the first chunk, is this
subsequent boundary validation also vulnerable to an integer overflow if
chunk_offset and chunk_size wrap around?
> memcpy(raw_buf + qhdr->chunk_offset,
> iq_response.queue_response.queue_data,
> qhdr->chunk_size);
[Severity: High]
This is a pre-existing issue, but does this location also lack a bounds check
on chunk_size against the size of the iq_response stack variable, potentially
allowing a stack buffer over-read?
[ ... ]
> if (!qhdr->chunk_size)
> break;
>
> iq_offset += qhdr->chunk_size;
> } while (iq_response.queue_response.queue_header.flags &
> XE_RAS_INFO_QUEUE_FLAG_MORE_DATA);
[Severity: High]
This is a pre-existing issue, but can this do-while loop be forced into an
infinite loop by malicious or unresponsive firmware? If the firmware repeatedly
returns a valid chunk_offset and chunk_size with the MORE_DATA flag set such
that the calculated end boundary never exceeds the limit, could this cause a
kernel soft lockup?
--
Sashiko AI review · https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260825175916.1103841-13-badal.nilawar@intel.com?part=6
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-25 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-25 17:59 [PATCH v2 00/11] Add CPER logging support for CRI Badal Nilawar
2026-08-25 17:59 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] drm/xe/xe_ras: Add support to retrieve info queue data " Badal Nilawar
2026-08-25 17:53 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-26 0:54 ` Rodrigo Vivi
2026-08-25 20:48 ` Michal Wajdeczko
2026-08-25 17:59 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] drm/xe/xe_ras: Refactor get_counter() to return response structure Badal Nilawar
2026-08-25 17:59 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] drm/xe/cper: Add CPER structures and trace event Badal Nilawar
2026-08-25 17:51 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-28 15:23 ` Rodrigo Vivi
2026-08-25 17:59 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] drm/xe/cper: APIs to prepare and log CPER record Badal Nilawar
2026-08-25 18:02 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-26 0:59 ` Rodrigo Vivi
2026-08-25 17:59 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] drm/xe/cper: Prepare Intel CPER error info from info queue Badal Nilawar
2026-08-25 17:54 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-25 17:59 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] drm/xe/cper: Log CPER records for aggregate counter retrival Badal Nilawar
2026-08-25 17:55 ` sashiko-bot [this message]
2026-08-26 1:01 ` Rodrigo Vivi
2026-08-25 17:59 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] drm/xe/cper: Allow hardware error CPER reporting from xe_log Badal Nilawar
2026-08-25 17:54 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-27 21:27 ` Michal Wajdeczko
2026-08-25 17:59 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] drm/xe/ras: Report device memory errors using SIGID Badal Nilawar
2026-08-25 17:58 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-27 20:25 ` Michal Wajdeczko
2026-08-25 17:59 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] drm/xe/ras: Report core compute " Badal Nilawar
2026-08-25 17:55 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-25 17:59 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] drm/xe/ras: Report soc internal " Badal Nilawar
2026-08-28 15:20 ` Rodrigo Vivi
2026-08-25 17:59 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] drm/xe/ras: Report correctable " Badal Nilawar
2026-08-25 18:03 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-25 18:29 ` ✗ CI.checkpatch: warning for Add CPER logging support for CRI (rev2) Patchwork
2026-08-25 18:31 ` ✓ CI.KUnit: success " Patchwork
2026-08-25 19:25 ` ✓ Xe.CI.BAT: " Patchwork
2026-08-25 22:06 ` ✗ Xe.CI.FULL: failure " Patchwork
2026-08-26 19:50 ` [PATCH v2 00/11] Add CPER logging support for CRI Matt Roper
2026-08-27 20:12 ` Rodrigo Vivi
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