From: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
To: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
Dmitry Baryshkov <lumag@kernel.org>,
Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@kernel.org>
Cc: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>,
Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@arm.com>,
Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>,
Radu Rendec <rrendec@redhat.com>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
Clark Williams <clrkwllms@kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-rt-devel@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] ARM: cacheinfo: avoid out-of-bounds write in populate_cache_leaves()
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:55:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260912195552.76673-2-kmehltretter@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260912195552.76673-1-kmehltretter@gmail.com>
populate_cache_leaves() advances its bounds-checking index once per
cache level, but split instruction/data caches consume two entries.
CLIDR-based allocation supplies enough entries. Early allocation from
the device tree can supply fewer and expose an out-of-bounds write.
Count each written leaf and stop before a split level that does not
fit. This prepares ARM for DT-based early allocation and matches
commit 875d742cf532 ("arm64: cacheinfo: Avoid out-of-bounds write to
cacheinfo array").
Fixes: a9ff94477836 ("ARM: 9433/2: implement cacheinfo support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
---
The overrun was reproduced with KASAN on QEMU virt, cortex-a15, using
a device tree whose cpu nodes carry only d-cache-size, so one leaf.
With patch 4 alone the boot reports a slab-out-of-bounds write in
populate_cache_leaves(). With this patch the boot is clean.
arch/arm/kernel/cacheinfo.c | 12 +++++++-----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/cacheinfo.c b/arch/arm/kernel/cacheinfo.c
index e1469b641780..860eeb03cfe5 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/cacheinfo.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/cacheinfo.c
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ int populate_cache_leaves(unsigned int cpu)
unsigned int level, idx;
enum cache_type type;
struct cpu_cacheinfo *this_cpu_ci = get_cpu_cacheinfo(cpu);
- struct cacheinfo *this_leaf = this_cpu_ci->info_list;
+ struct cacheinfo *infos = this_cpu_ci->info_list;
unsigned int arch = cpu_architecture();
/* CLIDR is not present before ARMv7/v7m */
@@ -159,13 +159,15 @@ int populate_cache_leaves(unsigned int cpu)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
for (idx = 0, level = 1; level <= this_cpu_ci->num_levels &&
- idx < this_cpu_ci->num_leaves; idx++, level++) {
+ idx < this_cpu_ci->num_leaves; level++) {
type = get_cache_type(level);
if (type == CACHE_TYPE_SEPARATE) {
- ci_leaf_init(this_leaf++, CACHE_TYPE_DATA, level);
- ci_leaf_init(this_leaf++, CACHE_TYPE_INST, level);
+ if (idx + 1 >= this_cpu_ci->num_leaves)
+ break;
+ ci_leaf_init(&infos[idx++], CACHE_TYPE_DATA, level);
+ ci_leaf_init(&infos[idx++], CACHE_TYPE_INST, level);
} else {
- ci_leaf_init(this_leaf++, type, level);
+ ci_leaf_init(&infos[idx++], type, level);
}
}
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-12 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-12 19:55 [PATCH 0/4] ARM: allocate the cacheinfo early to fix the PREEMPT_RT boot warning Karl Mehltretter
2026-09-12 19:55 ` Karl Mehltretter [this message]
2026-09-12 19:55 ` [PATCH 2/4] ARM: cacheinfo: count external caches in early_cache_level() Karl Mehltretter
2026-09-12 19:55 ` [PATCH 3/4] ARM: cacheinfo: guard the CLIDR read in populate_cache_leaves() Karl Mehltretter
2026-09-12 19:55 ` [PATCH 4/4] ARM: topology: allocate the cacheinfo early on the boot CPU Karl Mehltretter
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