From: Wei Jie Law <98lawweijie@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Duggan <aduggan@synaptics.com>,
Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>,
Benjamin Tissoires <bentiss@kernel.org>,
linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 0/2] Input: synaptics-rmi4 - fix two device-controlled out-of-bounds writes
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:31:21 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260825103123.12216-1-98lawweijie@gmail.com> (raw)
Hi Dmitry,
v4 is a tags-only respin: both patches carry the Assisted-by tags that
Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst now asks for. Neither diff
has changed since v3. Sorry for the extra round trip.
The rest of this cover letter is unchanged from v3.
Two memory-safety problems in the shared RMI4 core, found while building
a reproducer for an out-of-bounds bug in hid-rmi [1]. Both are driven
entirely by data the *device* supplies -- its Page Description Table --
so they are reachable from a malicious USB HID device with no code
running on the victim, and equally from I2C and SMBus RMI4 devices.
Neither depends on the hid-rmi bug. Both are present in mainline and in
every stable tree I looked at.
1/2 is an off-by-one: RMI_PDT_INT_SOURCE_COUNT_MASK is 0x07, so
interrupt_source_count can be 7, but struct rmi_function declares
int irq[RMI_FN_MAX_IRQS] with RMI_FN_MAX_IRQS == 6 and two loops walk it
up to fn->num_of_irqs. irq[6] is the storage of the next member,
unsigned int irq_pos, so the function's position in the interrupt bitmap
is silently replaced with a Linux virq number. UBSAN flags all five
stores plus the read on the unregister path.
2/2 is a time-of-check/time-of-use across two reads of the device: the
PDT is scanned three times and re-read from the device every time,
irq_mask[] is sized by the counting scan and filled by the creating scan,
and nothing verifies the two agree. KASAN catches the resulting
set_bit() walking off the end of the flexible array at the tail of every
struct rmi_function.
2/2 also closes the device-driven route into an older problem in
rmi_create_function_irq(): irq_create_mapping() is called without
checking for failure, and it returns 0, not an error code. A device that
declares one interrupt in the counting scan and four in the creating scan
makes the mapping fail, and irq_set_chip_data(0, fn) plus
irq_set_chip_and_handler(0, &rmi_irq_chip, handle_simple_irq) then
replace the chip and flow handler of IRQ 0 -- the timer, on x86:
=========== /proc/interrupts, before ===========
0: 9 0 IO-APIC 2-edge timer
=========== /proc/interrupts, after ============
0: 9 0 rmi4 2 timer
genirq: Flags mismatch irq 0. 00002000 (rmi4-00.fn01) vs. 00215a00 (timer)
With 2/2 applied the same device is rejected before any mapping is
attempted and IRQ 0 is untouched. A standalone check of the
irq_create_mapping() return value still looks worthwhile, but it is a
separate change and I did not want to bury it in this series.
How this was verified:
Linux v6.12.69 (CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS=y, booted slub_debug=FZPU) and
v6.12.105 (CONFIG_KASAN=y + CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE=y, CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS=y,
booted kasan_multi_shot -- generic KASAN otherwise reports only the first
error per boot), x86_64. An emulated Synaptics RMI4 device publishes a
Page Description Table crafted for each case, driven two ways with
identical results: a /dev/uhid program, and the same device over
dummy_hcd + raw-gadget with Facedancer so the reports really traverse
usbcore -> usbhid -> hid-rmi. Each bug was exercised on its own cold
boot, because heap state left by a previous run changes what the
out-of-bounds read returns and UBSAN reports each call site only once
per boot.
With both patches applied 1/2 produces no UBSAN reports and a device
whose F01 declares the full 7 interrupt sources probes normally, and 2/2
fails the probe cleanly instead of corrupting the heap: three
consecutive runs of the growing-PDT device give three rejections
("F40: interrupt count changed between PDT scans (pos 1 + 6 > 1)",
"Function creation failed with code -22.") and zero KASAN reports,
against 14 from the unpatched core on the same boot, with no kobject or
refcount warnings; devices answering both scans consistently still probe
and report their real product id.
I am happy to post the reproducers, or to send them privately if you
would rather they did not go to a public list.
Changes in v4:
- Assisted-by tags on both patches. No code change.
Changes in v3:
- 2/2: reject the function *before* allocating it, rather than
disposing of it afterwards. The v2 kfree() is correct on today's
stable trees, but wrong on mainline since commit 58d42ec10b73
("Input: rmi4 - refactor function allocation and registration"):
rmi_alloc_function() has since run device_initialize() and
dev_set_name() on fn->dev, so kfree() there would leak the name
string and skip the kobject cleanup. put_device() is no alternative
-- on the pre-refactor trees the stable backports target it warns and
leaks exactly as v1 did. Checking the counts before
rmi_alloc_function() needs no cleanup on any tree; the error message
and the -EINVAL are unchanged.
- 1/2 unchanged.
Changes in v2:
- 2/2: dispose of the rejected struct rmi_function with kfree() rather
than put_device(). The rejection happens before
rmi_register_function(), so device_initialize() has not run and
fn->dev is still all zeroes; put_device() on it warned twice
(kobject_put on an uninitialised kobject, then refcount underflow)
and then leaked the function, because the saturated refcount stops
the release from ever running. ftrace over 405 rejections counted
810 rmi_create_function against 405 rmi_release_function, matching a
+407 growth in kmalloc-1k; with kfree() there are no warnings over
206 rejections and the slab count is flat. Thanks to the Sashiko
automated review for prompting a closer look at that error path.
- 1/2 unchanged.
The earlier postings are at
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-input/cover.1787549234.git.98lawweijie@gmail.com/
and
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-input/20260824122733.76321-1-98lawweijie@gmail.com/
and
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-input/20260825061027.105062-1-98lawweijie@gmail.com/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-input/20260825060954.104890-1-98lawweijie@gmail.com/
Wei Jie Law (2):
Input: synaptics-rmi4 - fix irq[] overrun with 7 interrupt sources
Input: synaptics-rmi4 - reject a PDT that grows between scans
drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_bus.h | 9 ++++++---
drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_driver.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-25 10:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-25 10:31 Wei Jie Law [this message]
2026-08-25 10:31 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] Input: synaptics-rmi4 - fix irq[] overrun with 7 interrupt sources Wei Jie Law
2026-08-25 10:53 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-25 10:31 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] Input: synaptics-rmi4 - reject a PDT that grows between scans Wei Jie Law
2026-08-25 10:47 ` sashiko-bot
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