* [PATCH] soc: apple: rtkit: fix OOB reads in crashlog parser
@ 2026-07-31 16:52 Pavitra Jha
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From: Pavitra Jha @ 2026-07-31 16:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Sven Peter, Janne Grunau
Cc: Neal Gompa, Greg Kroah-Hartman, asahi, linux-arm-kernel,
linux-kernel, Pavitra Jha, stable
apple_rtkit_crashlog_dump() parses a binary blob copied from a shared
memory region populated by the RTKit coprocessor after a crash. The
blob is treated as trusted structured data, but four distinct bugs
allow a malicious or compromised coprocessor to trigger out-of-bounds
reads against the kernel heap:
1. Section header read without tail-space guard
The main loop is guarded by (offset < size), but the section header
occupies bytes [offset, offset+16). A section starting within the
last 15 bytes of the buffer causes the memcpy at offset+12 to read
past the end of the allocation.
2. section_size not validated against remaining buffer space
section_size is a u32 read verbatim from the coprocessor blob.
It is passed directly to each handler as the 'size' argument without
checking offset + section_size <= size. Every handler therefore
operates on memory past the end of the shadow buffer. Additionally,
section_size == 0 causes an infinite loop because offset never
advances.
3. dump_mailbox: size_t underflow when section_size < 28
n_messages = (size - 28) / sizeof(entry) performs size_t arithmetic.
If the coprocessor reports section_size < 28, the subtraction wraps
to ~0UL, n_messages becomes enormous, and the subsequent memcpy loop
reads and dev_warn-logs arbitrary adjacent slab memory, constituting
a kernel heap info-leak.
KASAN confirmed (kernel 7.1.0, QEMU/x86_64, kasan_multi_shot):
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in apple_rtkit_crashlog_dump.cold
Read of size 24 at addr ffff88800469f08c by task insmod/60
Call Trace:
kasan_check_range
__asan_memcpy
apple_rtkit_crashlog_dump.cold
rtkit_poc_init
4. dump_version and dump_str: bare %s with no NUL guarantee
dump_version() ignores its size argument entirely and passes bfr+16
directly to dev_warn() as a %s argument. If section_size places the
section end before a NUL byte, dev_warn walks arbitrarily past the
allocation. dump_str() has the same issue in its else branch: memchr
correctly bounds the search, but the resulting pointer is then passed
to dev_warn() as %s without a NUL guarantee within the real buffer.
Fix:
- Check offset + 16 <= size before reading each section header.
- Reject section_size < 16 or offset + section_size > size before
dispatching, ensuring every handler receives a size bounded by the
real buffer. This also eliminates the infinite-loop case.
- Add an explicit size < 28 guard in dump_mailbox() to prevent the
size_t underflow regardless of the outer check.
- Replace bare %s with %.*s in dump_version() and the else branch of
dump_str(), using the (now validated) size argument as the bound.
Attacker model: any entity able to influence RTKit coprocessor firmware
or crash-log shared memory (coprocessor compromise, DMA-capable
peripheral on the same interconnect) can trigger these bugs against any
Linux system running Asahi Linux on Apple Silicon hardware.
Fixes: 9bd1d9a0d8bb ("soc: apple: Add RTKit IPC library")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Pavitra Jha <jhapavitra98@gmail.com>
---
drivers/soc/apple/rtkit-crashlog.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/soc/apple/rtkit-crashlog.c b/drivers/soc/apple/rtkit-crashlog.c
index 8319e3651..3af17c31d 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/apple/rtkit-crashlog.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/apple/rtkit-crashlog.c
@@ -81,8 +81,8 @@ static void apple_rtkit_crashlog_dump_str(struct apple_rtkit *rtk, u8 *bfr,
*newline = tmp;
ptr = newline + 1;
} else {
- dev_warn(rtk->dev, "RTKit: Message (id=%x): %s", idx,
- ptr);
+ dev_warn(rtk->dev, "RTKit: Message (id=%x): %.*s", idx,
+ (int)(end - ptr), ptr);
break;
}
}
@@ -91,7 +91,12 @@ static void apple_rtkit_crashlog_dump_str(struct apple_rtkit *rtk, u8 *bfr,
static void apple_rtkit_crashlog_dump_version(struct apple_rtkit *rtk, u8 *bfr,
size_t size)
{
- dev_warn(rtk->dev, "RTKit: Version: %s", bfr + 16);
+ if (size < 17) {
+ dev_warn(rtk->dev, "RTKit: Version section too small: 0x%zx",
+ size);
+ return;
+ }
+ dev_warn(rtk->dev, "RTKit: Version: %.*s", (int)(size - 16), bfr + 16);
}
static void apple_rtkit_crashlog_dump_time(struct apple_rtkit *rtk, u8 *bfr,
@@ -112,6 +117,11 @@ static void apple_rtkit_crashlog_dump_mailbox(struct apple_rtkit *rtk, u8 *bfr,
memcpy(&type, bfr + 16, 4);
memcpy(&index, bfr + 24, 4);
+ if (size < 28) {
+ dev_warn(rtk->dev, "RTKit: Mailbox section too small: 0x%zx",
+ size);
+ return;
+ }
n_messages = (size - 28) / sizeof(entry);
dev_warn(rtk->dev, "RTKit: Mailbox history (type = %d, index = %d)",
@@ -206,8 +216,20 @@ void apple_rtkit_crashlog_dump(struct apple_rtkit *rtk, u8 *bfr, size_t size)
offset = sizeof(header);
while (offset < size) {
+ if (offset + 16 > size) {
+ dev_warn(rtk->dev,
+ "RTKit: Crashlog section header out of bounds at 0x%zx",
+ offset);
+ break;
+ }
memcpy(§ion_fourcc, bfr + offset, 4);
memcpy(§ion_size, bfr + offset + 12, 4);
+ if (section_size < 16 || offset + section_size > size) {
+ dev_warn(rtk->dev,
+ "RTKit: Crashlog section size out of bounds: %u at 0x%zx",
+ section_size, offset);
+ break;
+ }
switch (section_fourcc) {
case APPLE_RTKIT_CRASHLOG_HEADER:
--
2.53.0
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