Re: [PATCH v2] cxl/cdat: Fix uninitialized stack use in endpoint bandwidth gathering

[Li Ming <ming.li@zohomail.com>]

在 2026/8/12 14:09, Guixin Liu 写道:
> cxl_endpoint_gather_bandwidth() declares three access_coordinate arrays on
> the stack - pci_coord, sw_coord and ep_coord - without initializing them,
> and relies on its helpers to fill every member. None of them does.
> cxl_pci_get_bandwidth() and cxl_port_get_switch_dport_bandwidth() assign
> only read_bandwidth and write_bandwidth, and
> __cxl_coordinates_combine() assigns an output bandwidth only when both
> input bandwidths are non-zero. Every member a producer declines to set is
> read back as whatever was on the stack.
>
> Both cases occur on real topologies. The latency members of pci_coord and
> sw_coord are never written, yet __cxl_coordinates_combine() sums them
> unconditionally, so the latency reads are undefined on every call. And a
> device whose CDAT DSLBIS reports no bandwidth for an access class leaves
> perf->cdat_coord zero for that class, which is exactly the condition that
> makes __cxl_coordinates_combine() skip the bandwidth assignment and leave
> the ep_coord entry untouched.
>
> The ep_coord case escapes the function: cxl_bandwidth_add() accumulates it
> into the per-upstream-port aggregate that is published through the region's
> access coordinate sysfs attributes, so stack contents are reported to
> userspace as a bandwidth figure. The latency sums are discarded by
> cxl_bandwidth_add() rather than published, but they are still computed from
> uninitialized memory.
>
> Zero initialize the three arrays. Zero is already the value this code uses
> for "not reported" - both the __cxl_coordinates_combine() guard and
> coordinates_valid() test for it - so a member no producer sets now reads
> back as unknown rather than as a plausible number.
>
> Fixes: a5ab0de0ebaa ("cxl: Calculate region bandwidth of targets with shared upstream link")
> Signed-off-by: Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Ming <ming.li@zohomail.com>
> ---
> This was patch 6/8 of the "cxl: Assorted fixes" series [1]. Per review
> feedback that series is not being reworked as a whole; the fixes are resent
> individually instead. Patches 1, 2 and 7 of the series are dropped, as those
> issues are already fixed in cxl/next.
>
> v1->v2:
> - rebase onto cxl/next
> - rewrite the commit message to describe the behaviour rather than narrate
>    the code change (Alison Schofield)
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cxl/20260811113608.2815625-1-kanie@linux.alibaba.com/
>
>   drivers/cxl/core/cdat.c | 6 +++---
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cxl/core/cdat.c b/drivers/cxl/core/cdat.c
> index 5c9f07262513..3c6a1537f89b 100644
> --- a/drivers/cxl/core/cdat.c
> +++ b/drivers/cxl/core/cdat.c
> @@ -633,9 +633,9 @@ static int cxl_endpoint_gather_bandwidth(struct cxl_region *cxlr,
>   	struct cxl_port *endpoint = to_cxl_port(cxled->cxld.dev.parent);
>   	struct cxl_port *parent_port = to_cxl_port(endpoint->dev.parent);
>   	struct cxl_port *gp_port = to_cxl_port(parent_port->dev.parent);
> -	struct access_coordinate pci_coord[ACCESS_COORDINATE_MAX];
> -	struct access_coordinate sw_coord[ACCESS_COORDINATE_MAX];
> -	struct access_coordinate ep_coord[ACCESS_COORDINATE_MAX];
> +	struct access_coordinate pci_coord[ACCESS_COORDINATE_MAX] = { };
> +	struct access_coordinate sw_coord[ACCESS_COORDINATE_MAX] = { };
> +	struct access_coordinate ep_coord[ACCESS_COORDINATE_MAX] = { };
>   	struct cxl_memdev *cxlmd = cxled_to_memdev(cxled);
>   	struct cxl_dev_state *cxlds = cxlmd->cxlds;
>   	struct pci_dev *pdev = to_pci_dev(cxlds->dev);
>
> base-commit: 7098e9cd98a05c0c5de2fae0c2465f9d966fdd07